Jaime Rodriguez
On Windows 8, Windows Phone and HTML5
Building Windows Games with the Unity game engine
This is not déjà vu(or a joke) -- we are finally executing on the training event we...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/07/2013
Windows Store app development for iOS developers
On December 13 and 14th, Microsoft and the Big Nerd Ranch team are having a two day training on...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/09/2012
Building Windows Store games with the Unity engine
This event has been post-poned to a soon to be announced date (it will be end of January). Apologies...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/09/2012
Free, online Windows 8 UX Training
This coming Thursday (6/14) members of the Windows User Experience team are delivering an...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/12/2012
A free, early Windows 8 Store token plus a free Windows 8 slate..
I have blogged before about the process to get a Windows 8 developer token early so you can reserve...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/08/2012
MSDN Webcast series on building Metro style apps
A few colleague evangelists are doing a series on MSDN Webcasts on building Windows 8 Metro style...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/10/2012
Building Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast
Two weeks ago, we announced an all day training for those Building metro style apps with C++.. Event...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/07/2012
Announcing the Building Windows 8 apps with C++ Windows camp
Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/23/2012
Wanted!! Great Windows 8 Metro style apps
Tuesday, the Windows Store blog announced that in the next significant Windows 8 preview release...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/19/2012
Installing .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
[I am traveling today, so it might be a one-off due to low band-width at the hotel, but in...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/08/2012
Ad SDK for Windows 8 Metro style apps
Yesterday, Microsoft released the Beta Ad SDK for Windows 8. This is an update to the SDK released...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/08/2012
Getting started with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
it has been a long while since I last blogged. Why? I have immersed myself into the Windows 8 Metro...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/01/2012
transcript from background agents Q&A..
Last week we did a video on background agents for the Inside Windows Phone show.. If you want to go...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/29/2011
Useful Mango Developer Resources
With the Windows Phone (codenamed) Mango beta release, the Windows Phone team thrived to have great...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/10/2011
Windows Phone emulator software input panel and orientation
I hope I am not the only person who did not know this (apologies if that is the case)....
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/07/2011
System Tray Progress Indicator
In my last post, I teased that system tray in Mango is now customizable and data binding friendly...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/04/2011
Customizing SystemTray’s Background in Mango
A missing feature from Windows phone 7.0 was the ability to set the Background and Foreground color...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/03/2011
Where is RichTextBox in the Mango beta?
if you try using RichTextBox in the recently released Mango Beta tools, you might notice the control...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/01/2011
Slides and samples for the Helsinki mobile day event..
Thanks to those that attended our all-day Mobile Day event in...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/30/2011
Inside Windows Phone show is back
With all the new coming features in Mango, I had to bring the show back.. Every Friday expect...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/27/2011
An update from Windows Phone developers themselves
The past few days have been very exciting for Windows Phone developers: The Microsoft partnership...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/17/2011
FAQ about copy paste functionality in upcoming release
I received a few questions about this post, and the nodo bits that were released last week, some of...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/10/2011
Communication between HTML in WebBrowser and Silverlight app
Two people asked on this post about communication between HTML and Silverlight, so I thought I would...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/07/2011
Back button press when using webbrowser control in WP7
If you have a Windows Phone application that hosts the WebBrowser control and allows or encourages...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/04/2011
Details on the Push Notification app limits
Yesterday, Kevin Marshall wrote a blog post with a good developer tip: to code defensively for...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/07/2010
UpdateSourceTrigger on Windows Phone data bindings
I am writing this tiny demo app, that has a TextBox data bound to a ViewModel. I want the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/05/2010
Windows Phone Application Performance at Silverlight Firestarter
Yesterday I did a dry-run of my performance talk for today’s Silverlight fire starter. Conclusion...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/02/2010
ISO image for the Windows Phone developer tools..
For those of us who have multiple machines or re-install often and don’t like to download...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/27/2010
Working with GIF images in Windows Phone
As you know, Silverlight does not have native support for decoding gif images. That is downer, but...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/23/2010
Windows phones hardware reviews
Kevan Hutson (or some one in his team) created this great ‘aggregation’ of reviews of...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/15/2010
The Windows Phone platform and Windows Phone devs are both doing great
Yesterday, I saw a few posts, tweets and personal emails from smart, professional developers who are...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/12/2010
GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1
A few tips for those using GeoCoordinateWatcher in Windows Phone 7. The data: GeoCoordinateWatcher...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/11/2010
Slides and demos from TechEd sessions..
I have uploaded my slides and demos from my teched sessions. Thanks for attending and...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/11/2010
XAPAthons at Teched Europe 2010
On my way to TechEd Europe today, and just found out there is a room available to host a Windows...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/05/2010
Guessing if the SIP is visible in a Windows Phone application
For Silverlight applications, Windows Phone does a good job at abstracting the keyboard from the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/05/2010
Tips for debugging WP7 media apps with WPConnect
Monday’s blog post on running under screen lock generated a couple of questions around media...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/03/2010
Hail to the swiss army knife of Silverlight Windows Phone Apps LongListSelector
Today, David Anson announced the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone ...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/02/2010
Running a Windows Phone Application under the lock screen
Last week, Microsoft published new Application content policies for Windows Phone 7 Apps. One of the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/01/2010
Installing and viewing MSDN documentation for off-line consumption
The Windows Phone Marketpalce is upon us.. My apps are done and there are many, many apps getting...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 10/17/2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Events
Want to learn Windows Phone 7??? Booya!! Check out the line-up of events that our rocking...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/24/2010
Introducing the Inside Windows Phone Show in Channel 9
Today, we are announcing a new Channel 9 show dedicated to Developing Windows Phone...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/03/2010
Windows phone developers join me at Teched EMEA
I will be doing a full-day pre-conference at TechEd EMEA covering Windows Phone 7 .. ...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/20/2010
Windows Phone Design Day Recordings
Windows Phone is getting very impressive reviews, and all of them mention the great, innovative user...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/13/2010
Windows Phone 7 performance white paper is now online.. got questions?
Shane Guillet has been working on Silverlight performance since way back when it was called WPF/E......
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/06/2010
WPF ribbon has been released..
Congratulations to the WPF team in shipping the WPF ribbon control… You can download it, from:...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/04/2010
Video recordings for first Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart event
This week, MS learning did the first delivery of our Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart training. The...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/23/2010
Tips for uninstalling the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTPs and moving to beta
To install the Windows Phone Developer Tools beta, you will first need to uninstall the older CTP...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/13/2010
Migrating apps from Windows Phone April CTP Refresh to the beta build
There were a good number of breaking changes and new features introduced in the “beta”...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/28/2010
WIndows phone developers please hold on Blend 4
Today at Internet Week New York we are launching Expression Studio 4. This new version is shipping...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/07/2010
A transparent Windows PHONE FAQ
I had two long flights this week and I caught up with all my reading of internal Windows Phone...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/07/2010