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Philly Code Camp 2012 Event Follow-up: Adding Location Intelligence to Your Windows Phone Apps with Bing Maps

Another Saturday spent geeking out, another code camp under my belt. Philly Code Camp was a lot of fun, with hundreds of developers from the NJ/PA community converging on the Penn State campus in Abington, PA to hear dozens of cool software development...

Published 05-14-2012 1:54 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: Data Visualization, Bing Maps, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, Code Camps, Location Intelligence, Community, Nuget, Event, Slides, Metro, Brent Schooley, Json.net, Design

Infragistics Announces Reduced Pricing for Mobile & Web Products

Mobile & Web. This is 2012, and when you talk to developers everywhere, what you constantly hear about is mobile & web. Desktop applications are at the core of all corporations, but Infragistics recognizes that developers are constantly looking...

Published 05-03-2012 1:00 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: NetAdvantage, Data Visualization, Bing Maps, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, Location Intelligence, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Infragistics, Twitter, Silverlight Toolkit, Windows Phone SDK, Nokia, iOS, Motion Framework, Editors, HTML5, Video Player, OpenStreetMap, Facebook, Tree, Chart, Grid, Treemap, Barcode, Rating, ListView, jQuery Mobile, Google ID, Cloudmade, Live ID, jQuery

Bonus Surprises in NetAdvantage for WPF, Silverlight and Ultimate

Today’s launch of NetAdvantage 2012 Volume 1 marks another exciting milestone for .NET, web and mobile developers. You get new controls, new features, new samples and more, basically a lot of cool new stuff. But it doesn’t end there. We decided...

Published 05-03-2012 12:32 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: WPF, NetAdvantage, Data Visualization, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Infragistics, Silverlight, iOS, HTML5, jQuery, LightSwitch, Reporting, Quince, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Icons, Visual Studio

TechBash Event Follow-up: Windows Phone, Azure, XNA, Oh My!

Thank you to everyone who attended my TechBash sessions last Saturday. It’s never easy to give up half a weekend to go learn cool new developer stuff and hopefully it was all worth it for you. As mentioned, all my presentation slides and demos are...

Published 05-02-2012 4:04 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: XNA, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Community, Azure, Free Tools, Nuget, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, Slides, GameDev, Windows Azure Toolkit, WATWP, Azure Storage, Notifications, Cloud, TechBash, Brent Schooley, Ambrose Little

Bytes by MSDN: Jerry Nixon & Nick Landry Talk Mobile Apps & Games at GDC

Earlier in March I attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) for the first time in four years. That week, I had the pleasure of connecting with Jerry Nixon , Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Colorado, who interviewed me for Bytes by MSDN . Join us...

Published 04-24-2012 8:52 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: Product Management, XNA, NetAdvantage, Data Visualization, Mobile Development, Gaming, Windows Phone, Jobs, Infragistics, iPhone, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Apple App Store, Conference, Event, GameDev, iOS, Dragonvale, GDC, Backflip Studios, Bytes by MSDN, Kosmic Warz, Jerry Nixon

The Need for a Third Mobile Ecosystem: The Need for Windows Phone

A debate is raging in the technology world these days: Is there a need for a third mobile ecosystem? (FYI, iOS and Android are the first two) If so, which is it gonna be? My position is that yes, we need a third mobile ecosystem, and Windows Phone is...

Published 04-20-2012 3:07 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: Product Management, Windows 7, NetAdvantage, Android, Geek Life, Mobile Development, MVP, Touch Computing, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Infragistics, iPhone, Visual Basic, Mango, Tango, Open Source, Google, Nokia, Apple App Store, Lumia 800, Samsung, Storage, Apple, Dual-core, Symbian, Apollo, Windows RT, DroidRage, Nintendo, Open Handset Alliance, MeeGo, Rsearch in Motion, Linux, PlayStation, Mobile Ecosystem, Wii, Metro, Lumia 900, Mac, Bada, Technology Wars, Sega, Windows Mobile, Cars, Xbox 360, WebOS, AJAX, Bitlocker, Blu-Ray, Windows CE, Skype, iOS, RIM

Deeper in .NET 2012 Event Follow-up: From the Hand to the Cloud–Building Windows Phone Apps & Games with Azure

Thank you to everyone who attended my #DiDN12 session on this cloudy (pun intended) Saturday morning. I greatly appreciate everyone’s dedication to get up early and give up half of their weekend to come listen to the bald French-Canadian yap about...

Published 03-31-2012 12:07 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Community, Azure, Free Tools, Nuget, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, GameDev, Windows Azure Toolkit, Deeper in .NET, WATWP, Azure Storage, Notifications, Cloud

CodepaLOUsa Event Follow-up: Building Windows Phone Games in 3D with XNA

Sorry for the delay folks. If you attended my talk at CodepaLOUsa a couple weeks back in Louisville, KY, here are the presentation materials I promised you . In this ZIP file you’ll find my presentation deck, as well as the sample Windows Phone...

Published 03-29-2012 10:29 AM By Nick Landry

Filed under: XNA, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Community, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, Slides, GameDev, CodepaLOUsa

Storage Wars: SkyDrive Doesn’t Work in the Sky

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I recently switched my main Windows Phone device from a Samsung Focus to a gorgeous Nokia Lumia 800 . Why did I switch? While I still think the Focus is the best non-Nokia Windows Phone out there, there are many reasons...

Published 02-29-2012 11:46 AM By Nick Landry

Filed under: Android, Gaming, Windows Phone, World of Warcraft, Star Trek, Microsoft, iPhone, Spotify, Nokia, Windows Phone Marketplace, Netflix, Lumia 800, SkyDrive, Samsung, Storage, Zune, YouTube, CES, iTunes, Wagner, Apple, Classical Music, Family Guy, Dual-core, Opera, Symbian, Mobile World Congress, Xbox LIVE, Apollo, Zune Pass

ActiveNick Guest Stars on The Tablet Show Podcast with Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell

Did you know that Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell, the guys behind the legendary .NET Rocks podcast , have a new podcast called The Tablet Show? This podcast brings you the best minds in software development for tablets, phones, and mobile devices;...

Published 02-28-2012 2:30 PM By Nick Landry

Filed under: Bing Maps, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, Location Intelligence, Podcasts, Enterprise Mobility, Infragistics, Google Maps, Robotics, Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin, .NET Rocks, The Tablet Show