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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Date: 08/29/2011

Useful Mango Developer Resources

With the Windows Phone (codenamed) Mango beta release, the Windows Phone team thrived to have great...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Date: 11/23/2010

Windows phones hardware reviews

Kevan Hutson (or some one in his team) created this great ‘aggregation’ of reviews of...

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...

Date: 11/12/2010

GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1

A few tips for those using GeoCoordinateWatcher in Windows Phone 7. The data: GeoCoordinateWatcher...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .. ...

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...

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......

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:...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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...

Date: 05/07/2010

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