Comments on: Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Experience

By: Thank You Sponsors

Thank You Sponsors — Mon, 03 May 2010 11:42:05 +0000

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By: Windows Phone 7 Developers Hub coming up in Helsinki — FinnMob

Windows Phone 7 Developers Hub coming up in Helsinki — FinnMob — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:02:09 +0000

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By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:26:26 +0000

Don't you think it would be better to load an XDocument or XElement with an XmlReader instead of reading the stream to end first. This would use the advantages of using a stream.
Thanks for posting your experiences.

By: Many Niches » Blog Archive » What Do You Call One Search Result From StackOverflow?

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:02:03 +0000

[...] putting this post out, and got the OK to write about it. I hit this bug when building out my FriendLinks Windows Phone 7 application, and was surprised to find it was a bona fide bug and not a problem with my coding skills. If [...]

By: Stumpy » [Mix10] Une soudaine envie de développer sur mobile ?

Stumpy » [Mix10] Une soudaine envie de développer sur mobile ? — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:31:03 +0000

[...] Dès que j’ai une minute pour moi, je ferais sans doute un petit article à propos de ma « première application wp7 », le plus dur reste l’idée, ensuite la réalisation est vraiment « bidon » comme peut vous le montrer par exemple Bradon Watson avec son client twitter. [...]

By: brandonwatson

brandonwatson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:28:07 +0000

I'd like to think that Windows Phone 7 will get develoeprs excited about building new experiences and applications, and customers excited about experiencing their mobile phone in a new, and more personal, way. Time will tell, but I am a believer.

By: Andrew Sansone

Andrew Sansone — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:25:57 +0000

How much competition will Windows 7 Series cell phone be for iPhone? It was a trending topic all day on Twitter http://bit.ly/duxQxg

By: brandonwatson

brandonwatson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:16:16 +0000

@Aurojit – thanks for making that clear. I will go back in and fix the post this evening. I also found another bug which I plan to post later tonight once I get clearance from the dev team, but for this use case, it's important to know it's a bug and how to handle.

By: Aurojit Panda

Aurojit Panda — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:24:31 +0000

Hi
As a fellow beta tester I just had one comment about your article.

You say
"Something about Twitter not doing Basic Auth correctly, and needing to set the username and password in the header, necessitating the use of NetwrokCredentials."

The problem really isn't with Twitter, the spec defines that Basic authentication is carried out by sending a Base64 encoded "username:password" string in the HTTP headers as a part of an authenticated request (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authe...).

As far as I know your problems are caused by a bug in WebClient, where webclient does not correctly process the Credentials property. I am sure they will fix it in the coming days, but the current problem with WebClient and credentials extends to all services which support basic authentication, not just Twitter.

By: brandonwatson

brandonwatson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:28 +0000

Thanks Joel – more Windows Phone 7 posts this week.