A new toolkit for Windows Phone 7 has been released on Coding4Fun. The toolkit includes Controls,Converters and Helpers. (update) Get it here With Controls such as About Prompt Input Prompt Progress Overlay Round Button Round Toggle Button Memory Counter TimeSpan Picker I suspect that most WP7 developers should look at …

I have spent today preparing my presentation and demos for the Black Marble event next week [Enabling Agile Development with Cool Tools](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Enabling Agile Development with Cool Tools). I will be presenting with Gary Short of DevExpress. He is going to be talking about …

Microsoft has had a good but generally unknown history of producing really quite remarkable Mathematics additions to its OS’s and Applications Microsoft has just published a new version 4.0 get it here Math contains Graphing calculator allows 2D and 3D colour graphing. Formulas and Equations Library more than 100 …

I was searching for a manual for my US Blu-Ray Player and I stumbled across Retevo which has a very large collection of manuals for consumer products. b.

Whist trying to make use of a custom build activity I got the error TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition Tfsdemo1Candy: Cannot create unknown type '{clr-namespace:TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.CodeQuality;assembly=TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.StyleCop}StyleCop' This occurred when …

I asked the question a while ago if I should buy a Kindle? I still think that new books are too expensive, but as there are loads of out of copyright books available for the platform so I did not hesitate to download the Windows Phone 7 Kindle app today. You never know when you need something to read and what could be …

Seems yet again my sessions for a DDD event did not excite the voting public; the selected sessions for DDD9 are out and I am not on the list. Again it does look a nice varied selection of sessions. I have tried to see if I can see a trend in what is being selected, but it seems a fair mix between language feature …

as the phone 7 hacks start rolling in, I thought I would keep a list, still no HTC hacks Samsung Hacks http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/easy-hack-enables-usb-tethering-on-wp7-phones/ …

For all of you who know that I am a big big fan of StyleCop, I am super pleased that Doug Holland has released is a new update of a set of really good code snippets Get them here I would recommend reading Doug's blog posts for the last two updates, well worth the effort.here and here Doug also has some StyleCop …

Last week was really exciting for me and my colleagues here at Black Marble as the work we’ve been doing with a partner came to fruition. Words and Pictures are a communications agency based not far from us, and we’ve been working together on a great product that builds upon SharePoint 2010 to greatly improve content …