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How to enable the "missing" features in Zune
A small post one how to enable the missing features in Zune 4.8 without having to hack your registry
What's coming up
I've been quiet for the last few months, and for a few good reasons.
“Walshed” Phone Support Tool: official fix to get you back on track - Updated!
A while ago I created an updater to avert the normal update procedures as I was tired of waiting for Telstra
What’s in your 7392 Windows Phone Update
So you've woken up to the "SSL" update from Microsoft. Only to see MSFT have included a few more fixes than just an "SSL" update.
Issues updating to 7392 (“Walshed” phones) Updated!
Please read this if you're having issues updating to 7392 and you "Walshed" your phone.
An update, on the homebrew update front
tl;dr: Do not use my tool to update your phone. On Monday, I released a homebrew utility that attempted to install unreleased updates to Windows Phone devices. The tool successfully passed my own...
So who wants Windows Phone Updates, like right now?
Disclaimer, use this at your own risk, if this voids your warranty I’m not being held responsible, blah blah all that junk. Update: For Samsung customers having issues updating, please use ...
Getting your NoDo update now (HTC, Samsung & LG)
Ok, the other day I posted about how to unbrand your HTC devices to get the updates. This only got people pre-NoDo as MSFT are region blocking updates. Pretty smart. So, download this...
How to remove the operator and get your Windows Phone Updates (HTC ONLY)
Howdy! So NoDo was finally released this morning. Well, for the EU people anyway (don’t get me started). Windows Phone 7, by default, stores your operator identifier in a sneaky registry ...
Windows Phone IsTrial API, my thoughts
Before I start out, from a dev’s point of view, I love the IsTrial API. Perfect solution for the developer to maintain a single codebase & application, therefore push out updates quicker and...
Debugging GetIsNetworkAvailable() issues
I responded to SelesGames on twitter when he was having issues with detecting “Flight Mode” in his application. Out of the box, there aren’t any API’s to detect if Flight Mode is enabled or not. ...
Upcoming minor NoDo features
Aside from copy & paste, Windows Phone 7 OS is getting a few other changes in the soon to be released NoDo update.
They are as follows:
Updated Marketplace Application UI to show an application’...
How to use the default TextBox control with Copy & Paste
After my post the other night about how the forthcoming Windows Phone update would support Copy & Paste automagically, there has been some who don’t agree with the implementation. I, for o...
Forthcoming Windows Phone Update: The bits that are real
Copy & Paste It''s hard to believe something like this was missing, but even more so people actually missed using it (the generic excuse from fruit phone owners when bagging the platform). ...
Windows Phone 7 excessive data usage
I’ve been using my HTC Mozart since it was released in November on Telstra and have been loving it. My Telstra plan comes with 3GB of included data, which is plenty for two push email accoun...
XDocument.Load on Windows Phone 7–Hello undocumented features
When Rafael & I were working on the ChevronWP7 ringtone editor for the homebrew community, we needed a way to modify a pre-compiled XAP file, add some files, and have the client app pick up those ...
Source code to the ChevronWP7 ringtone editor
As promised. Attached at the bottom of the post is the source code to the Ringtone editor (both desktop & client) applications.
Happy to help out anyone with the source and understanding it.
Ha...
Windows Phone 7–Free developer unlock anyone?
I’ve been working on a little project with some mates to “free” the Windows Phone 7 OS from the marketplace shackles. Rafael & Long Basically what you needed to do was pay Microsoft $99 (...
Windows Phone 7 - Full file system access anyone?
Well, as the title says it.
Here''s a preview of what''s to come. ;-,,)
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I''ll be posting the code in a couple of days, need to clean it all ...
Windows Phone 7 & “native” apps, the missing link!
Ok, take a deep breath, let it sink in, are you ready?
What I discovered today was some FUNKY code that Samsung had created to set the Network properties of a Windows Phone 7 handset. Taking a p...
Windows Phone 7- Enabling call waiting
By default, (well on Telstra in Australia), call waiting is disabled. Some network settings made it into the UI for Windows Phone 7, like “Show my called ID to” & “Call forwarding”, but it appea...
Windows Phone 7 RTM & ODATA–What you need to know
If you aren’t on the ODATA mailing list, you need to be. What was discussed over the weekend was a REAL deal breaker for data aware Windows Phone 7 apps. Basically, if you use the CTP ...
TechEd 2010, Guess who’s speaking?
I’m speaking at TechEd Australia! I’ll be talking about games development with XNA & Windows Phone 7. Pumped to be chosen to present. Here is a link to the sessions list, unfor...
SharePoint 2010, LINQ, SPMetal and What you didn't know
With SharePoint 2010 comes new libraries to perform LINQ to SharePoint (Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq to be exact).
In a nutshell, this enables you use LINQ against an ADO.NET DataServices like DataC...
The Microsoft TFS Team Rock!
Where I work, we’ve been using TFS 2010 B2 since it was first released. I haven’t had the time to upgrade & migrate the old data from our B2 instance to our RTM instance. Last week I f...
Intellisense with SharePoint 2010 ECMAScript and VS2010
Sure, you''ve seen a post or two around about this.
BUT, what they''re all doing is infact referencing the entire filepath in the JS file. Its just a mess. There is a magical way around this c...
Creating a ModalDialog on page load in SharePoint 2010
Welcome to the first installment of the SharePoint 2010 series by me.
Over the past month I''ve been tasked with converting our highly customised SharePoint 2007 Intranet (used by about 6000 use...
Expression 4 Studio Released! Not for Windows Phone Devs
If you all missed the TechEd KeyNote this morning at about 12:00AM, Expression Studio 4 (Blend, Design, Encoder, Web) etc have now been released!
You can read more about it here. There are also ...