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Windows Phone 7 App Rejected–Crashes when Offline

I wrote an application for the Windows Phone Marketplace, and it was rejected. I use the internal WebBrowser control, and I never tested it without the internet connection. Here is the hard part – the Emulator is always connected, there isn’t a way to turn it’s internet connection off (that I know o

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Windows Phone: Working with MediaLibrary.GetPictureFromToken

I struggled with this for a while, so I thought I would throw up a post, to help out people running into this is in the future. From MSDN: Here is the code sample you’re lead to, to use the Extras item in the photo hub. Add the Extras.xml file … 1: <?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8

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Microsoft Listens–WinPhone7 App Submission Changes

Wait, what’s going on again? It’s all around Windows Phone 7 application development and the submission process to the Windows Phone Marketplace. Microsoft is on the hunt for app devs to build apps for Windows Phone 7. Of course they are, right? You need apps to make the platform more enticing for u

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Azure Boot Camp Trip Report–Feb 5, 2010

This past week, I hosted another bootcamp @Gangplank in Chandler, AZ. This was done in conjunction with AZGroups.org, our local Microsoft Evangelist Michael Palermo( @Palermo4 ) and a few rock solid guys in the community. Namely, Andre Wilson (@awilsong), and Chris Coneybeer (@coneybeer). We had 31

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Best customer service EVER–Berries.com

Berries.com for the win. I don’t have a ton of time – so this will be short. I sent a thank you gift to some friends, but I used an old (wrong) address. The people who live there now, called and told Berries.com about the mistake. Berries (Called Shari’s Berries online) called me and left

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Aptera Disappoints Me

Aptera Motors promises to be an amazing vehicle. I’ve been wanting one since I first heard about it from my buddy Lorin, back in the day. In fact, I wanted one so bad, that I put in the $500 deposit. Not a lot of scratch and it get’s me on the list. How cool will

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RedBox vs. Blockbuster for Kiosk Movie Rentals

Talk about black and white, night and day, easy and hard, great service and poor service, evangelize and despise. All opposites – This is my opinion of RedBox and Blockbuster. You may have read about my frustrations with Blockbuster last week. While Blockbuster continues to do everything possible to

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Live Mesh or Dropbox–which one?

So you have these things called files on your computer, right? They are precious to you. You spent hours, days, months, or maybe years to create them. Maybe it’s a Quickbook file. Maybe it’s a photo that only took a second to create – but the memory is priceless. Maybe it’s a Word doc of

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Benefits of a knowing your local Restaurateur

So today at Gangplank a couple of the guys were standing around thinking about were to go to lunch. We didn’t figure it out – we just started walking towards Ol’ Town Downtown Chandler. About once a week, we end up at Murphy’s Law. A local bar, that has great great great great (did I