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Poll: Old VS New Look of the Windows Phone 7 Start Screen
Ever since Long Zheng pointed out an alternate start screen for Windows Phone 7 I've been convinced that the older layout was the better layout. The blank area...
Using the Facebook Developer Toolkit With Windows Phone 7
A couple of people have noticed that the Facebook Developer Toolkit doesn't work on the current release of Windows Phone 7. The primary reason is that it has a...
Example Pivot Control for Windows Phone 7
I know I said I was done trying to recreate the Pivot control, but I'm happy to be able to share a standalone Pivot control that I've been working on. Keep in...
Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 3]
This is part 3 - the final part - of how to create a Pivot style application for Windows Phone 7. Attached is the sample project and code for this example. The...
Preview of My Current Windows Phone 7 Pivot Work
I got some feedback after part 1 and part 2 of how to create a Pivot style for your Windows Phone 7 application - what I had created had a few issues. First,...
Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 2]
Note: It has been noted that this demo and code more closely follow how to create a Panorama style application than a Pivot style application. I hope to fix...
Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 1]
Note: It has been noted that this screencast and part 2 more closely follow how to create a Panorama style application than a Pivot style application. I hope...
Metro Icons for Windows Phone 7
During the Windows Phone UI and Design Language session at Mix, the presenters talked about the Metro styled icons, and how applications of similar type should...
Windows Phone 7 Tools Are Here, Time to Get Crackin'
I just got back from 5 days in Vegas for Mix 2010 (where I was a top 5 tweeter). Hopefully by now you've watched the first day's keynote and seen some of the...
Silverlight Playtime on the Nokia N97
I've had the chance over the last month or two to play with Silverlight on the Nokia platform. Now that the SDK is available I threw together a video showing...
Latest status update
Migrated 110 posts off old Drupal site and relaunched SmartyPantsCoding.com as a Markdown-based Astro site. Also making new work public — Line Diet reboot and in-progress ChurchBells.