Windows Phone 7

Mango Quick Tips: Background Agents Debugging

Weird Error In attempting to add and test background agents for one of my applications I came across the following error: BNS Error: The action’s start time has passed when trying to create/update the request The error raised immediately after calling the ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest method while debugging.  I’m not sure what that means but the error …

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WP7 Quicktip: Marketplace Beta App Submissions

This week I submitted my first beta app to the marketplace and wanted to share my experience with you all.  The submission was nearly identical to a standard app submission.  There is a field labeled “Distribute to” on the “upload” step of the app submission.  By choosing “Private Beta Test” you will skip the standard …

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Quick tip: Twitter OAuth Authority (Nodo vs Mango)

I resolved a small bug in my Twitter OAuth code today that others might find useful.  The bug was found on a phone with Nodo but didn’t exist on Mango phones.  I’ve been using the Mango beta tools for a while now and haven’t really had any problems going back and forth between OS versions …

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Quick tip: Saving custom types in IsolateStorageSettings

Its been a while since I used IsolatedStorageSettings from scratch.  I wrote a wrapper several months ago and its just worked since.  So when I was working on a side project recently (very recently) I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why IsolatedStorageSettings didn’t appear to be working.  I could add an …

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WP7: Extra Wide, Horizontally Wrapping PanoramaItem with dynamic ListBox

I spent several hours last night trying to find a good example of an extra wide, horizontally wrapping Panorama Item but couldn’t find one.  Several of the built in hubs have this layout and I knew there were third parties who had done the same so it should be possible.  I like how this layout …

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I’m published!

My Windows Phone 7 application is finally published.  RouteStats allows you to track your common driving routes and builds statistics about the travel time and time of day.  I got the idea from driving to work every day and wondering which way was best.  It’s a simplistic feature set at this point but I have …

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