windows phone middle east

Mobility, from a PC point of view!

Adel Al Zubeir — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:49:54 +0000

Let’s be honest shall we? The Apple iPad is a cool gadget; it is very good for the simple stuff that can be difficult to do on a mobile. However, it is expensive & not a real PC! So I went out looking for a tablet PC and lucky me my office had a spare [...]

Diving into Licensing Class of Windows Phone 7

Adel Al Zubeir — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:03:55 +0000

If you are building applications for Windows Phone 7 Marketplace you will love this. It has never been easier to make a trial version of your application. A class provided my Microsoft makes it easier for us developers to build trial versions of our application in a very easy way. On MSDN, Microsoft has documented a simple [...]

Pinch to Zoom on Resistive screens for Opera Mobile

Adel Al Zubeir — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:29:49 +0000

It has been a while since i released the beta version of Dual Touch SDK. It seems that my SDK have inspired some talented people to incorporate the idea (not the SDK, they are using their own algorithm so i take no credit) into Opera Mobile. This is the reasion why i love Windows Mobile, it [...]

Windows Phone 7, 3D Calc on Codeplex

Adel Al Zubeir — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:18:17 +0000

It has been very difficult to build animations on older Windows Phones, now it is very easy. During the Community Launch of Visual Studio, I demoed how to build 3D animations for Windows Phone 7, I also posted some articles that will help you start (access Part I and Part II). The 3D Calculator application has [...]

Taking care of your Windows Phone Battery

Adel Al Zubeir — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:50:03 +0000

Batteries has always been the bottleneck of smart phones, specially the ones with huge touch screens. Today, I’m going to give you some tips to enhance your battery life of your Windows phone, increase it’s lifetime and make it last longer Batteries overview: All batteries share some specific characteristics, all of them state on the battery itself [...]

Windows Phone 7, Animations Part II

Adel Al Zubeir — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:00:13 +0000

Previously in Part I of this article, you saw how to rotate objects over multiple axis. However, this approach only allows the user to see the end result. Here in the second part we will discuss how to make the objects on screen to animate and give the application user a smile. What we need to [...]

Windows Phone 7, Animations Part I

Adel Al Zubeir — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:22:57 +0000

Most of us the developers didn’t know how to create graphically nice applications. and by nice i don’t mean good looking and using themes and skins but i mean animations and some objects animations, My self included! It was very difficult to create graphically nice animations that utilizes the GPU and ensures smooth animations so we [...]

Dot Net Compact Framework Forum

Adel Al Zubeir — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:56:23 +0000

I have been receiving a lot of questions by email and through the comments. Unfortunately i cannot answer all of you at the same time so i created a new forum in our forum section (which can be accessed from the top menu) which is only for Dot net Compact Framework. In this forum, you [...]

Celebrating VS2010, Community Launch

Adel Al Zubeir — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:21:06 +0000

We are celebrating, The new Visual Studio 2010 is here and with it communities in Riyadh (including us) are throwing a very nice event. The event is going to take place on Tuesday, May 4th 2010 and starts on 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM. If you live in Saudi Arabia, this is an event that you [...]

Which phone to buy?

Adel Al Zubeir — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:07:50 +0000

During the past few days, i have been receiving a lot of emails and messages from people asking me what phone to buy. Honestly, i have been in their shoes wondering should i get this one? or that one? Let’s face it, Phones are very important devices in our lives (if not the most important ever!). [...]

RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7, Now on Codeplex.

Adel Al Zubeir — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:03:49 +0000

Since Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7, i loved the fact that it can use LINQ to XML. It is really a life saver, simple and performance optimized! Instead of writing lots of code to parse and loop through the XML document, you can simply format your listbox control, set the ItemsSouce property to the result [...]

Performance Optimization, How to?

Adel Al Zubeir — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:50:25 +0000

Have you ever wondered how can you optimize your application’s performance? Yes, this is a question that all developers ask. No matter what platform they use or what is their target device. Performance is something that all of us should keep in mind when writing applications, specially when we are building applications for Mobile Devices as [...]

IT is The Best Job in the World Contest

Adel Al Zubeir — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:06:24 +0000

You surely have seen it on TV – some people really think that sitting on a boring island and blogging about clouds going by is “the best job in the world” (not to mention the risk of being bitten by a jelly fish). Here at Microsoft however, we are absolutely sure that IT is the [...]

Dual-Touch SDK for Resistive Screens V1.0 Beta, Rotation Alpha

Adel Al Zubeir — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:59:33 +0000

In December last year, i posted an Alpha version of this SDK. Now it is mature enough to announce it as Beta. This SDK allows developers to build Dual-Touch enabled applications. so let’s get into action. Features: Pinch to Zoom Support Drag (swipe) support. Replacement events for the mouse move fires only when a single finger detected. Multiple events based [...]

هاتف الوندوز الأصدار السابع واللغة العربية

Adel Al Zubeir — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:34:50 +0000

جميع المتحدثين باللغة العربية والمهتمين بالاصدار الجديد من هاتف الوندوز يتسائلون حول اذا ما كان الاصدار الجديد يدعم اللغة العربية بشكل مباشر، وفي هذة الحالة انا لا امثل اي استثناء. كما نعلم جميعا أن شركة مايكروسوفت قامت بالأمس بالإعلان عن أدوات الرمجة الخاصة بالنظام الجديد وهي مبنية على تقنية السلفر لايت Silverlight بالاضافة الى dot net. [...]

Windows Media Player & Windows Phone 6.x, Great Combination!

Adel Al Zubeir — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:38:47 +0000

I have always knew that our Windows Phones can be hundreds of times better than any MP3 Player in the market, my only question was how to easily sync? Apple got the iTuens, Zune uses it’s own Zune software, so what is there for Windows Phones? Yes, Windows Media Player.Everyone (My self included) thought that windows media [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series, Summing All things UP

Adel Al Zubeir — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:34:46 +0000

It has been done, Microsoft Has done what everyone said it is impossible. They simply “Redefined” the world of smart phones. In Mobile World Congress 2010, Steve Ballmer announced the new Windows Phone 7 Series, a new concept in the world of smart phones and new era for the world of Mobility.Microsoft in earlier time said [...]

TechEd Middle East And Mobility Track

Adel Al Zubeir — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:12 +0000

Windows Mobile is really a hot topic, there is a whole dedicated track for Windows Mobile Development (MOB) – http://teched.ae/technical-tracks.aspx, Tony Whitter will be the speaker. Beside the track Ask The Expert will provide a great opportunity to talk with experts on Windows Phone development. Below is Tony’s bio which is not yet on the website: A [...]

New Windows Phone 7 Photo Leaks from Engadget

Adel Al Zubeir — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:36:55 +0000

Nice photos unveal the new interface of Windows Mobile 7, i’ll leave you with some photos It seems that the XBox rumors were true, but what can we really do with Windows Phone 7? Play XBox Games? Via Engadget

First Windows Phone 7 Photo from MWC10?

Adel Al Zubeir — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:31:51 +0000

This appears to be the First Windows Mobile Phone 7 Photo, All i could recognize is the XBOX LIVE! Can’t wait for the announcement Via Twitter