Sep 03

Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out!

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Yo! Get it while it’s Fresh! If you know what I mean, backend syncing isn’t totally there yet but this is SOO SOO COOL yo!… Between your GTL (Gym, Tan, and Laundry) be sure to get to Codeplex and download DROP 2..

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This new guide from patterns & practices will help you design and build applications that target the new Windows Phone 7 platform.
The key themes for these projects are:
1. A Windows Phone 7 client application
2. A Windows Azure backend for the system

Some highlights from the “drop” yo!

For Windows Phone 7 Funq for Silverlight is for mobile IOC

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Funq provides a high performance DI framework by eliminating all runtime reflection through the use of lambdas and generic functions as factories.
Developed entirely in C# using TDD, it's a container you can crack open and actually understand to the core.


To follow the entire process of creating Funq applying test-driven development, make sure you watch the Funq Screencast Series. The initial version, for the compact framework, was created for the Mobile Application Blocks.

Features:

Drop #2 for WP7 Developer Guide

This is the second release for the forthcoming "Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide".

Release notes:

  • As usual, make sure you run the Dependency Checker tool to verify external components & tools that are needed
  • The entire source tree is available. But to keep things simple, we have included 2 solutions:
    • A "Phone Only" solution that doesn't open the entire application (it doesn't open the backend and mocks all calls to it)
    • An entire solution that includes everything (Phone project, Windows Azure backend, etc)
  • The client project has been heavily refactored to make it simpler more easily readable.
  • We have included updated chapters of the guide.

Some known issues of this release:

  • Full synch between phone and the backend is still not completed
  • Notifications is still work in progress
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