Is Silverlight for Mobile now available as of today, April 21, 2010?
Is it supported in Windows Mobile 6 phones? I read that it will only be supported in Windows 7 Phones
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/can-silverlight-save-windows-mobile-from-plummeting-sales.ars
The Developer Tools can be downloaded here, but there aren't any Windows Phone 7 devices released yet.
Is Silverlight for Mobile now available?
It is still in Community Technical Preview for Windows Phone 7 (as of 21 April 2010) and it is not compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM Version. The emulator is supposed to be pretty good so we can develop against it.
Is it supported in Windows Mobile 6 phones?
It is not available for WM6 (yet). I am not sure with their plan.
from Wikipedia:
The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Windows Mobile 6 was
expected in the 2nd Quarter of 2008,
but it still not officially announced.
Microsoft has stopped focusing on
bringing Silverlight to Windows Mobile
6.x and is planning to include it in Windows Mobile 7.[55]
Last month I read this blog-article about an "open source clone" of silverlight coming to Iphone. I'm very curious about this
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/03/14/novell-to-bring-open-source-silverlight-clone-to-iphone/
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I have been googling for what feels like an age to find a direct download of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 in order to get the WPF Performance Suite.
If I got to the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 download page, it only downloads a down-loader which doesn't work for me. As I need to put the installer onto a machine that is disconnected from the internet.
I also managed to find an ISO image, but again that doesn't work for me, again I have no DVD drive on this machine.
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279)
Someone posted a direct link asking a similar questions for Windows 8, I am just hoping someone else has one for x86.
Where can I download WPF Performance Suite for Windows 8
I saw this 1 week ago in a Microsoft blog post.
Download the WPT installer x86 x64 and select here the WPF Profiler:
Now you should apply this patch (select Reapir).
I've previously created a Silverlight application for CRM-2011 and there has been samples for Silverlight in the CRM-2011 SDK. However, I installed CRM 2015 SDK and I couldn't find any sample codes for Silverlight, does it no longer support silverlight ? If it still supports it, how can i create a connection to the CRM 2015 within my Silverlight application ?
Microsoft abandoned Silverlight a couple of years ago, in favour of HTML5. Silverlight is not supported on all platforms (mobile to begin with) and it does not fit in the cross-platform/execute-anywhere strategy Microsoft follows nowadays.
Microsoft may not say this out loud, but Silverlight can be seen as legacy and therefore should be avoided when possible.
However, Dynamics CRM 2015 still supports Silverlight web resources. You can find documentation in the help-file (.CHM) in the SDK. CRM 2011 examples should still work. (B.t.w, Silverlight sample code appears to have been removed from the CRM 2013 SDK already.)
I have just installed Windows 8.1 and then installed Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition.
I tried to create a Windows Phone app and found out that there are two ways of creating it (in fact 3 if you count Universal Apps if I am not wrong)
Windows Phone
Windows Phone Silverlight
Can someone please tell me what exactly is the difference between these two? I read a couple of articles but still don't understand and this whole thing is very confusing.
When I tried to create a Windows Phone Silverlight project then it asked me whether I want to target 8.0 or 8.1.
When I tried to create Windows Phone project then it asked me to get a Developer license and didn't ask about version 8.0 or 8.1.
What shall I chose if my aim is to create an application for mobile devices (tablet/phones) that will run on maximum devices running Windows Phone 8 version?
Windows Phone 8 Silverlight is the older UI on Windows Phone 8. WinRT XAML is used for Windows Store Apps(these are Universal Apps). Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight is a bit different as explained here.
Windows Phone Silverlight, although older, is better in some ways. If your aim is to develop an app that is targeted only for phones and that doesn't have any use getting ported to Win8/RT, go with Silverlight. Background Audio is a mess in WinRT. Speech Recognition with Cortana is worse.
The controls of WinRT XAML are buggy. For example, there is a clear performance degradation of MapControl in WinRT XAML, whereas, in Silverlight, this is smoother.
On the other hand, Windows Store Apps have .NET Native, which converts C# to native C++ code, resulting in performance gains.
For a beginner, I would advise starting with Windows Phone 8 Silverlight apps.
Windows Phone Silverlight is the "old" platform that WP8.0 apps are built on. It asked you to target 8.0 or 8.1 because WP8.1 has a hybrid mode that lets you build WP8.1 apps but still have access to the Sliverlight API if you had a whole lot of legacy code you didn't want to port over just yet.
Windows Phone is the (mostly) universal platform for WP8.1 that is based on Windows Runtime.
I need to write a simple app for a Symbol MC70 scanner
My device is loaded with: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Premium
I have VS 2010 Premium on my desktop.
When installing the Window Mobile 6 SDK I get this error:
I read this article:
Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh install issue on Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2
But my question is really - What's the best way to go forward from here?
Using WinForms I can knock this app out in 3 hours. I'm hoping I don't burn 3 days fooling around with SDK's etc. Does anyone know if there are any VS 2010 plugins for this?
Would it be best to try and update the devise to Mobile 7 and use VS 2010?
Thanks so much for any help!!
The MC70 device does not support wm7 and vs2010 does not support wm6 development.
The only current solution I'm aware off is to develop with vs2008.
The only solution is to install Visual Studio 2008 Professional and create a WinForms Smat Device app.
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General Information
App hub - central place for windows phone/xbox development tools/tutorials/info
Windows Phone Home
Windows Phone Team blog
Programming Guide
Class Library Reference
Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide
Blogs
Den by default: Windows Phone 7
.NET Zone: Windows Phone 7
Shawn Wildermuth: Windows Phone 7
Jeff Blankenburg: 31 Days of Windows Phone
Articles
Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game
Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player
Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers:
(part1) (part2) (part3)
Performance Tips when creating WP7 apps
Windows Phone 7 Live Tile Schedules – How to execute instant Live Tile updates
Tips to get your Application in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace ASAP
Checking for Network connectivity in Windows Phone 7 SDK
Windows Phone 7.1: a Quick Start
A Simple Multi-Page Windows Phone 7 Phonegap Example
Books
Programming Windows Phone 7
Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development
Pro Windows Phone 7 Development
Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development
Learning Windows Phone Programming
Windows Phone 7 Game Development
Windows Phone 7 Application Development
101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50
101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume II: Developing Apps 51-101 (Fall 2011)
Podcasts
Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone 7
Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch
Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel
Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series
Videos
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions
Colin Melia on Windows Phone 7
Channel9 Content for WIndows Phone
Developer Tools
8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development
Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW
EQATEC Profiler for Windows Phone 7
BugSense, bug tracking for Windows Phone 7
Frameworks
OpenNETCF.IoC Framework
Autofac for WP7
Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework
MVVM Light Toolkit
Columbus: Windows Phone 7 MVC framework
Windows Phone MVP
Caliburn.Micro - MVVM framework strongly based on conventions
Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training
Training (Video and PDF) includes:
An Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform
Game Building on the Windows Phone Platform
Advanced Windows Phone Development
Selling Your Windows Phone Solutions & Wrap Up
The .NET REST client RestSharp supports Windows Phone 7. It really simplifies using web services and deserializing the response.
Windows Phone Dev Podcast!!! Don't forget that one! They let you know the latest about the Windows Phone AND they talk to developers (like the guy who made Evernote) about how they made their apps.
I would also add: 30+ Excellent Windows Phone Development Tutorials
Here is some information about framework that I had recently published: http://columbus.codeplex.com/
Columbus is MVC framework designed specifically for the Windows Phone 7 platform and supports:
Strongly typed navigation with history
View Models that can survive tombstoning
Asynchronous and cancelable controller actions with execution progress
Commands (CAB style)
Multiple navigation frames
Features to help applications to be complaint with 'Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements'
Easy integration with IoC containers available on the Windows Phone 7 platform (source code solution contains samples demonstrating how to use Columbus with Autofac and Ninject).
Simplified and testable usage of Choosers
Here is another good intro into phone specific features of silverlight:
Andrea Boschin on WP7
Plurasight
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/
this has excellent in depth video tutorials to get you started.
There are few excellent tutorial sets for beginners.
Video series from Bob Tabor for absolute beginners These videos are excellent and easy to follow.
Once you have started and need help on specific topics consider searching on GeekChamp
When you are in a position to publish apps and fine tune things then the blog series by Jeff Blankenburg is quite useful.