There is currently lots of confusion and uncertaintyaround Windows Phone 7 but there is also a lot of information on the web. In an attempt to try and help make some of it more discoverable, here's a collection of podcasts and videos.
Podcasts
.NET Rocks
Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone 7
Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch
Brandon Watson Live in Atlanta
Hansel minutes
Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel
Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series
Zune Insider
Windows Phone 7 Deep-Dive
Videos
MIX '10
Channel 9 (lots!)
Dimecasts.net
Creating and using the Application Bar w/ Windows Phone 7
Understanding Navigation on Windows Phone 7
YouTube (official channel)
Ustream
IndyTechFest - Windows Phone 7 XNA 05/22/10
msdev.com
Windows Phone 7 in 7!
MSDN Bytes
Charlie Kindel interview
UK TechDays
here (via Mike Taulty) & here (select Developer days > Friday)
Windows Phone 7 Backstage
Past (recorded) events
ZDNet UK
Charlie Kindel interview - part 1 & part 2
If you know of any others please link them up in the comments.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Notes: Tap is the new click
We're using bodies evolved for hunting, gathering, and gratuitous violence for information age tasks like word processing and spreadsheet tweaking.
—David Liddle
Gesture: any physical movement that can be sensed and responded to by a digital system without the aid of a traditional input device such as a mouse or stylus.
—Dan Saffer
Avoid putting essential features or information like a label below an interface element that can be touched, as it may become hidden by the user’s own hand.
—Dan Saffer
The complexity of the gesture should match the complexity of the task at hand.
—Dan Saffer
The best designs are those that “dissolve into behavior.”
—Naoto Fukasawa
The best, most natural designs, then, are those that match the behavior of the system to the gesture humans might already do to enable that behavior.
—Dan Saffer
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP - Upgrade Warning
Oh, a nice little upgrade incompatibility (breaking change) warning from the new version of the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools CTP.
Surely that should be: "...created by a previous..."
The XML change:
Note that it's WMAppManifest.xml not WPAppManifest.xml - Another internal reference to "Mobile" rather than "Phone" still hanging around?