Yesterday we kicked off the Belgian Windows Phone User Group (WiPhug) with a first event called 'Building a Windows Phone application from Z to A'. We started with a short introduction of the team … more

I have several Windows Phone 7 apps up and running with both MVVM Light and localized resources without a problem. When I decided to take it a step further and try to add my custom ResourceDictionary … more

Microsoft just released the final version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1. This version allows you to develop and test for the new 256 MB phone devices. You can run the 512-MB and 256-MB emulator side … more

Last year in September Microsoft released a major update for the Windows Phone, version 7.5 or nicknamed Mango. The update brought us a long list of updates and new features. Next to that several new … more

During the creation of a Windows Phone 7 application for Trix I wanted to give the user the chance to add a reminder for a concert of his choice. With some example code available, the implementation … more

When I was adding localization to my first Windows Phone 7 app, I initially got following exception:

XamlParseException was unhandled

No matching constructor found on type … more

As you can notice, I moved my blog from DasBlog to Orchard CMS. DasBlog has been stable (read no new development) for a few years now and although some effort has been put in upgrading it to .NET 4.0, … more

Disclaimer: This is NOT an official installation guide for Mango (or any WP7 update) and is not supported by Microsoft. Using this process to upgrade is your own decision, any problems caused by this … more