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Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

davebost — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:39:41 -0000

@sk1rtsfly my apologies. Please try again.

Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

sk1rtsfly — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:33:30 -0000

Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

davebost — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:24:10 -0000

That is true. Time will certainly tell, but based on history, I like my odds as a dev to get my apps in front of a large customer base.

Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

Guest — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:17:46 -0000

500 million users? Let's see how many people actually upgrade to Window's 8 before we start calling this an unprecedented opportunity.

Re: More market opportunities for your Windows Phone App and some changes to the Marketplace

davebost — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:43:58 -0000

Phrases in quotes count as 1 keyword. Your second line is valid.

Re: More market opportunities for your Windows Phone App and some changes to the Marketplace

Jason Carter — Sat, 05 May 2012 08:40:52 -0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the guidance here, all great stuff. In regards to keywords and phrases, is it 5 keywords or 5 phrases that is allowed?

one, two, "three four", five
one, two, "three four", five, "six seven"

Thanks.
-Jason

Re: How can I win a Samsung Series 7 Slate, Dave?

davebost — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:44:50 -0000

Wouldn't it be nice if I had a Samsung Slate to give everyone who mailed me. :)

People who signed up for the trial prior to the deadline are entered into a drawing.

Re: How can I win a Samsung Series 7 Slate, Dave?

JavaMan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:00:19 -0000

By signing up for the Azure Trial, getting a subscription ID, and emailing you, are entrants guaranteed a Samsung Slate; or are we just entering the contest where one lucky person will get a Samsung Slate?

Re: Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App

davebost — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:38:35 -0000

@PHenry that's a great suggestion. That would be a good one to submit at http://wpdev.uservoice.com.

Re: Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App

PHenry — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:21:09 -0000

I like the Marketplace test kit, BUT I think MS should/needs to go the next step, and submit that file with the applicaiton/xap so you don't have to RE-ENTER the exact same information onto the marketplace submission website. It's not impossible to do on the website, just tedious IMHO. Especially since the information is alredy there. Nice article, thank you!

Re: ANN: More Windows Phone Boot Camps to Kick Off in October

davebost — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:46:07 -0000

Come to Austin on Oct. 3-4. Full boot camp plus a full-day Hands-on Labs.

Re: ANN: More Windows Phone Boot Camps to Kick Off in October

Tom Pham — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:40:22 -0000

where's the love for Houston?

Re: Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp Training

Dave — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:28:49 -0000

We did have an event in Indianapolis back on August 5th - the first day of GenCon. We won't do that again!

Re: Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp Training

J Carter — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:21:49 -0000

Why no Indianapolis training events?

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

Dave — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:05:28 -0000

If you go to the azure.com site and go to the offers section and scroll to the bottom is the MSDN offer. It goes to this page which has instructions to sign up in the top right.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

Robby — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:20:41 -0000

Dave, can you elaborate the steps required to kick the Azure tires for someone with MSDN subscription, which, I believe, allows free (limited hours) of Azure usage. Thanks.

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

Robby — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:20:41 -0000

Dave, can you elaborate the steps required to kick the Azure tires for someone with MSDN subscription, which, I believe, allows free (limited hours) of Azure usage. Thanks.

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

Dave — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:11:29 -0000

Unfortunately this is a US-only offer at this time.

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

Hardik Shah [Guru] — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:07:48 -0000

Is this offer available for INDIAN users ... ? PLease reply your answer to @GameboyZone on Twitter !

Regards,
H>

Re: ANN: Windows Phone 7 Hands-on Labs comes to Indianapolis

Andy Weston — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:55:53 -0000

Thanks for putting on this lab, Dave! It was very helpful in getting me kick-started in WP7. (now I just need a killer idea for an app)
--Andy

Re: FREE Windows Phone 7 Training coming to Redmond and Silicon Valley

Filip — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:19:01 -0000

Any chance of organizing this in Chicago? =)

Re: Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here

Fakher Halim — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:24:06 -0000

Dave,
Despite some driver issues, your explanation of Windows 7 was very useful. I have already install Windows 7 and am really amazed by its blazing performance. Because of some difficulties in Vista search (restricted by filenames), I had a bit low expectations, and was very skeptical, negative, and critical of the "Federated search" you were so passionately explaining; but after speedy and painless migration, I was amazed with the fast and accurate result I got even on my un-indexed network drives!! It is really impressive and cool -- even my desktop background automatically changes after about half an hour when I get bored!!

Re: Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here

Jeff Byttow — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:30:54 -0000

Some interesting items have been presented in Windows 7. However, I would like to see if Microsoft can innovate more. The Windows Vista experiment failed me and others miserably. That particular Operating System reminded me of Windows Millennium Edition (ME). I find the world of Microsoft .NET as a step in the right direction. As a C# ASP.NET developer, I would have loved to see more code examples for Windows 7. Microsoft, in my opinion, needs to take it up a notch.

Re: Free eBook: DevShaped

Dave — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:50 -0000

Great question, Patrick. Although OpenXPS (formally XPS) is an ECMA-based standard, its not been utilized nearly enough. At least visibly. OpenXPS is being utilized in many areas throughout the world in various capacities. However, there are other formats that are still ubiquitous across the planet. It will take time for the OpenXPS to gain some ground as an open standard. That still doesn't explain why we, at Microsoft, aren't providing documents in the OpenXPS format. That's certainly an issue I will raise internally.

Re: Free eBook: DevShaped

Patrick Barranis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:49:37 -0000

That's fantastic. Though, not to sound like I've been drinking the Kool-Aid a bit too much - where's the XPS version? I mean, are the folks in Redmond conceding defeat that quickly? ;)

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Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

Re: Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8

Re: More market opportunities for your Windows Phone App and some changes to the Marketplace

Re: More market opportunities for your Windows Phone App and some changes to the Marketplace

Re: How can I win a Samsung Series 7 Slate, Dave?

Re: How can I win a Samsung Series 7 Slate, Dave?

Re: Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App

Re: Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App

Re: ANN: More Windows Phone Boot Camps to Kick Off in October

Re: ANN: More Windows Phone Boot Camps to Kick Off in October

Re: Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp Training

Re: Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp Training

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

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Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

Re: Kick the Azure Tires for Free!

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Re: ANN: Windows Phone 7 Hands-on Labs comes to Indianapolis

Re: *FREE* Windows Phone 7 Training coming to Redmond and Silicon Valley

Re: Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here

Re: Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here

Re: Free eBook: DevShaped

Re: Free eBook: DevShaped

Re: FREE Windows Phone 7 Training coming to Redmond and Silicon Valley