Renewing developer phone registration

I share this in the hope that it will help out someone else in the future. Today I was surprised to see that when I tried to run an app on one of my devices I got a message saying that the app had been revoked and I must uninstall it. This surprised me as it was an app that is still in development. After a bit of poking around I discovered that the developer registration for the device had expired....

Tombstone Helper v2.5 now available

Just a quick note that version 2.5 of my TombstoneHelper library is now available. It fixes an issue where a textbox which had previously contained text which included a colon would throw an exception when restoring. You can get it from nuget and codeplex. Version 3 will hopefully be available soon. It will include support for ViewModels and the Silverlight Took...

Windows 8 does not use Metro!

"Ooh, ooh, ooh. Windows 8 looks just like Windows Phone 7 - it's metro too." No. Stop. Wait. Metro is the name of the design language for Windows Phone 7. If you've been paying attention, everyone (who's "on message") has been saying that Windows 8 is "metro-like" or "metro inspired" or the apps are in a "metro style". Those suffixes are important. This isn't just me being picky. There is an important...

Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8

Lots of details were announced about Windows 8 today at the BUILD conference. One thing I heard quite a bit was "if you're a Windows Phone 7 developer you're now a Windows 8 developer too". This is because you can use the same development tools & languages and share a design language heritage. You may recognise this as being very similar to a phrase that was used a lot last year: "If you're...