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THERE ARE BETWEEN 100 and 400 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS IN EACH DEVELOPER PRODUCT!!! HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW?

Shortcuts MegaPak Dev 7 app includes shortcuts for C#, VB.NET, VS, SQL, Expression Blend, Design, Encoder, and Web at over 60% savings if purchased separately! (Also, checkout Shortcuts MegaPak Office) Imagine knowing them all! You can easily increase your productivity by 10 to 20 percent using LEARN MODE which will help you memorize those shortcut keys. It is a known fact that the more key bindings you know, the more productive your experience is. Also, LEARN MODE remembers where you left off. Say you are on a commuter train or exercising on a treadmill and you have just a few minutes… just do a few questions and pick up next time where you left off. The recycle new exam app button will generate a new order of the questions and new combinations of possible answers anytime you want. Incorrect answers show the descriptions. But wait, there’s more…

LOOK UP KEY BINDINGS WITH ONE TOUCH!

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Announcing: MegaPak Office Shortcuts for the Phone 7 which includes keyboard shortcuts for Access, Excel, InfoPath, Office (General), OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, SharePoint and Word at over a 60% savings when purchased separately! Imagine knowing them all! You can easily increase your productivity by 10 to 20 percent using LEARN MODE which will help you memorize those shortcut keys. It is a known fact that the more key bindings you know, the more productive your experience is. Also, LEARN MODE remembers where you left off. Say you are on a commuter train or exercising on a treadmill and you have just a few minutes… just do a few questions and pick up next time where you left off. The recycle new exam app button will generate a new order of the questions and new combinations of possible answers anytime you want. Incorrect answers show the descriptions. But wait, there’s more…

LOOK UP KEY BINDINGS WITH ONE TOUCH!

Yes. It’s hard to believe. Say you are writing e-mails in Outlook... Read More »

I’ve been doing a lot with run time intelligence on the Phone 7 lately and thought I would share my findings at the next IMUG meeting. This will be a very informative and timely session. Get your stats together before Verizon hits! I hope you can make it! Feel free to forward and circulate on newsletters and sites, etc. Thanks.

 

Title: Instrumenting your Phone 7 code.

Description: This developer oriented session will answer these questions… How do I know how many apps I have sold? How many trials are there? How many downloaded the trial and then bought the app?  Where can I store user defined data, like email and registration info. How about location and device information? Is there a unique identifier for each user and if so, how do I get at it? Do I need to write a web service or can I use Preemptive Solutions run time intelligence? Join Russ Fustino in this very timely session on Phone 7 development and deployment. Take control of your sales data.

Time: 6:30-8pm

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Here is a nice utility I came across to summarize your Phone 7 application reviews in marketplace:
 
 

 

Announcing Shortcuts!!!! A new set of Tools that runs on Windows Phone 7 from Russ’ ToolShed Network…

What are shortcuts?

THERE ARE ANYWHERE FROM 60-450 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS IN EACH PRODUCT LISTED BELOW!!! HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW?

Imagine knowing them all! You can easily increase your productivity by 10 to 20 percent using LEARN MODE which will help you memorize those shortcut keys. It is a known fact that the more key bindings you know, the more productive your experience is. Also, LEARN MODE remembers where you left off. Say you are on a commuter train or exercising on a treadmill and you have just a few minutes… just do a few questions and pick up next time where you left off. The recycle new exam app button will generate a new order of the questions and new combinations of possible answers anytime you want. Incorrect answers show the descriptions. But wait, there’s more…

LOOK UP KEY BINDINGS WITH ONE TOUCH!

Yes. It’s hard to believe. Say you are debugging code in C# and... Read More »

 

Great Sample Tutorial Sample code:
App hub
Show advertising pub center
MS Advertising
Preemptive solutions – obfuscation and instrumenting
Nikita Polyakov’s decks…
Trial Mode API
ICONS:
Metro ICONS from phone SDK (recommended):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Icons
FONTS:
Advertising SDK
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7
Excel => XML addin
Navigation to another page
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Thanks to Nikita Polyakov for presenting a very informative session last night. In answering one more question after the meeting... According to Nikita.. The current release will NOT sync with Outlook 2003 through ActiveSync. It is encouraged to upgrade that account to a Live Mail Account using Windows Live Mail. Here are the resources from the meeting..

Register at the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace

Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools
Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements
 Application Policy Guidelines
Content Policy Guidelines
Forums
Windows Phone 7 developer resources

 

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