Recent content by mckhendry

In a panorama you can programmatically navigate to any pane. So if you want to put in a button in a pane or on the app bar to go to the back to the first pane in a panorama then you definitely could do that. I'm not sure you'd want to do that though. If you put analytics around that...

Windows 8 is required for Windows Phone 8 development. This is because Windows Phone 8 is based on a shared core with Windows 8. You can read it for yourself here (scroll down for system requirements). Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone | Microsoft Visual Studio

Nothing has been publicly announced yet. I seriously doubt we'll hear anything announced before it is publicly available. Sorry.

With Windows Phone you do have tile and toast notifications which can be triggered by either a push or a background process. Those should be sufficient for what you are trying to do. I understand you may be frustrated because you don't get the same flexibility to interrupt the user, but this...

Those typically aren't how we do icons in Windows Phone Development. You'll want to familiarize yourself with the App Bar. A large number of app bar icons come in the sdk. If an icon you need isn't provided, then there are a number of sites which do provide free icons styled for Windows...

Interesting, feels like snapped view on windows 8. You ought to build a sample app which implements this and see if it feels like what you're hoping. I'd be willing to give you feedback on it.

Yeah, I'd unpublish one of them. The sooner the better. As far as which one to unpublish, I'd lean towards the older one which has less features. People that still have it on their phones will be ok, you just have less people searching for it and pulling it down. Maybe do one last update to the...

Chris Williams and George Clingerman are XNA MVPs and co-authored a book: Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development. This book does have "Professional" in the title, but it simple enough for entry-level developers to get started with (caveat, you will build 4 games in the course of the...

Does your library already work in WP7.5? If so, then most likely it should be a simple recompile for WP8 (once the SDK is released). You could probably have it recompiled and verified on the day the SDK is released in less time than it took for me to write this comment. Unless of course you're...

I'm a little confused at why I see this in the marketplace twice? There's a 1.3 version and a 1.4 version, yet they both have different Ids. I can't distinguish any differences between the two (via the marketplace web pages), other than one requires location services and one doesn't. I'm...

Another problem you may need to consider is that some sites will return an HTTP Response of 200 and yet serve up a different image (e.g. an image with the text "hotlinking is not allowed"). To ultimately get around this you may need to first fetch the image remotely and store it on your server...

I will be there. -kw

I'll be at the Microsoft BUILD conference and am curious if others will be attending and are interested in a meetup? One idea is to meet Monday evening (folks are usually just getting to town and need food anyways), or perhaps a breakfast one of the mornings? For those who aren't aware, this...

Would love to be added. Two of my apps include: Run Pee Alchemy

My impression was that these forums were primarily for Windows Phone users, which is why I've stayed away for so long. I live more in the developer community, but I'm happy to listen, contibute, and help out wherever I can. I've got a couple apps out there that are sorely in need of updates, so...