Mike Ormond's Blog
Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
Blending the WebBrowser Control with your App
In my last post, I talked about the risks of failing to adapt your app to the selected user theme...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/03/2011
Failing Marketplace Submission - A Dose of my own Medicine
I’d been helping someone out with a Windows Phone 7 application. Like many other apps, the app...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/03/2011
Join us for Two Days of Windows Phone at Tech.Days in May
If you haven’t yet signed up to come along to our Tech.Days event in May, you still have a chance to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2011
Jumpstart Building a Windows Phone App
If you’ve been thinking about building a Windows Phone app but weren’t sure where to start, how...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/19/2011
Prototyping Windows Phone Apps with SketchFlow
If you’ve been itching to use SketchFlow to create your WP7 prototypes but had a reality check when...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2011
Are you going to MIX11?
Sadly this year I wont be there – I didn’t even ask to go (personal reasons) – but I do feel I’m...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2011
Get Rewarded for Creating Windows Phone Apps
If you’re in the UK we have a great offer for you – earn rewards for creating and publishing unique...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2011
Tech.Days Online Conference Session Recordings
The recordings for the Windows Phone 7 Online Conference last week are now available. You can find...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2011
Capturing Screenshots on Windows Phone 7
One of the requirements for application submission to Marketplace is a representative screenshot of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2011
Windows Phone 7 Online Conference–Useful Links
Firstly many thanks to all of you who joined us on the Tech.Days Online Conference yesterday. It was...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/25/2011
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for the WP7 Online Conference
When: Thursday 24th March @ 3pm GMT Where: Anywhere with an internet connection Format The...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2011
Windows Phone 7 Workshops–Register Now!
As I mentioned last week, we’re running a series of Windows Phone 7 workshops in Birmingham,...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/22/2011
Windows Phone 7 Iconography
I don’t know about you but I find creating the various application and marketplace icons a bit of a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/21/2011
ApplicationIcon must be in root directory
Just a minor itch I ran into today which I felt needed to scratch. I wanted to collect all my image...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/21/2011
New Windows Phone 7 Workshops
We’re running a series of workshops in association with APPA Mundi to help you get your apps...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/16/2011
Adventures with the GPS Emulator Recipe
Well I was going to make it an adventure – and I did have a little one – but TBH it’s pretty well...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2011
Save the Date–Windows Phone 7 Tech.Days Online Conference
When: Thursday 24th March @ 3pm GMT Where: Anywhere with an internet connection Full details:...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/25/2011
I Did Say I was an OData Newbie
Shortly after publishing my last OData post, I got an email from Phani who took me to task over my...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2011
Windows Phone Developer Tools Updated
Late on Friday we released an update version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. There’s a good...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/07/2011
Feel Free to Spam Me
This is just beautiful. If you’re anything like me I’m sure you’ve used services like Mailinator for...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2011
Tech.Days 2011: Save the Date
It’s that that time of year again when the big one approaches – the big event that gives us an...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2011
Some Useful WP7 Content for your Toolbag
I’ve stumbled across a few useful things recently that I thought would be worth highlighting....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2011
Windows Phone 7 Content on Demand Pt 3
Here are sessions 5, 6, 7 and 8 from the DDD WP7 event in Manchester. All the sessions are...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2011
Windows Phone 7 Content on Demand Pt 2
Here are sessions 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the DDD WP7 event in Manchester. All the sessions are...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2011
Windows Phone 7 Content On Demand
A long time ago I blogged about the DDD WP7 event in Manchester with speakers including Andy Wigley,...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2011
OData and Windows Phone 7 Part 2
In my last post, we walked through accessing the Twitpic OData feed to retrieve a collection of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2011
OData and Windows Phone 7
Last week at the Tech Days Online Conference, I did a quick WP7 demo that showed a simple app...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/28/2011
Windows Phone 7 App Reviews
A couple of people have mentioned alternatives for accessing your app reviews but I hadn’t...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/26/2011
Links from my “Silverlight for Windows Phone” session
Here are the links from my Tech Days virtual conference session yesterday....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/21/2011
Windows Phone 7 Guides for IT Pros (and Developers)
I just stumbled across these guides on the download centre and I must say there’s some great...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/17/2011
End of my time with the MSDN Flash
Yes, it’s true. My time as MSDN Flash Technical Editor has come to an end. The drop in salary is...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/17/2011
My First Computer was a… (Poll Result)
Well this one caused a lot of debate and discussion in the comments, though didn’t get nearly as...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/11/2011
MSDN Flash Poll #15: What’s your New Year’s Resolution?
Easing ourselves gently into 2011, all I want to know is, “What’s your New Year’s Resolution?”
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/10/2011
Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery, HTML 5 Style
Our first MSDN Flash feature article of the New Year comes from one of my colleagues at Microsoft in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/10/2011
Windows Phone 7 Update Info
I’ve just noticed we’ve released some information about future updates for Windows Phone 7...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/07/2011
A Couple of Upcoming Events
Firstly the UK Bing Maps User Group are holding their next meeting on the evening of 19th January in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/07/2011
Displaying HTML Content in Windows Phone 7
In the run up to the launch of Windows Phone 7, we did a lot of work with customers building early...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2010
Monitoring Memory Usage on Windows Phone 7
Frame rate counters are available (for Silverlight at least) right out of the box on Windows Phone 7...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2010
More Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone
Not long ago I posted about using Fiddler to capture the traffic on the Windows Phone 7 emulator. In...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/14/2010
4 Great WP7 Games from IronSun Studios
Congratulations to IronSun Studios who now have 4 great Windows Phone 7 games in the Marketplace....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010
Tech Days Online Conference in January
Looks like I’ll be presenting on the Tech Days Online Conference “Build an app for that” on 20th...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010
Language Shapes The Way We Think (Poll Result)
A popular poll with well over 1000 responses but I wonder if someone hijacked it this time around? I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/10/2010
MSDN Flash Poll #14: My First Computer was a…
I thought it would be fun this time around to try and find out what people’s first experience of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2010
Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7
I got an email recently asking about resizing images in Silverlight on WP7. Specifically, the need...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2010
Christmas Lists
There’s a tradition in our family (well, my wife’s family but it’s now “our” family) that people...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2010