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Mike Ormond talks about one very common failure when submitting a WP7 app to the Marketplace - failing to adapt your app to the selected user theme.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

The moral of the story is – check all of your pages, under all conditions, under both light and dark themes. Otherwise don’t be surprised when someone on the Marketplace testing team does.

Mike Ormond threw together a very quick test of Nick Randolph's Social Viewer app template for VS using a few of the RSS feeds from the blogs of people on his team.

Source: Mike's Blog

If you’ve been thinking about building a Windows Phone app but weren’t sure where to start, how about this for an idea? Nick Randolph of Built to Roam has created a customizable Social Viewer app template for Visual Studio. The template is the core of an application that allows you to aggregate multiple feed such as RSS, Atom, Twitter and Facebook. It also supports Bit.ly for sharing links, caching for offline reading, trials and even advertising.

Mike Ormond shares with you some free WP7 icon templates.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

I don’t know about you but I find creating the various application and marketplace icons a bit of a chore. Perhaps because I’m not very gifted artistically or perhaps it’s just because there are quite a few things to remember.

I've created a set of templates to make life just a little easier and thought others might find them useful.

Mike Ormond has a couple of posts with videos from the DDD WP7 event in Manchester:

• Windows Phone 7 Content On Demand 
• Windows Phone 7 Content on Demand Pt 2 
• Windows Phone 7 Content on Demand Pt 3

  A long time ago I blogged about the DDD WP7 event in Manchester with speakers including Andy Wigley, Rob Miles, Andrej Radinger, Tricky Bassett and Maarten Struys.
  
  The good news is that videos of *all* the sessions are now available on Channel 9.

In the previous part, Mike Ormond walked you through accessing the Twitpic OData feed to retrieve a collection of images for a particular user. In this post, he will pay more attention to displaying the actual images.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

In this post we’ll jazz things up a bit and display the actual images. The picture on the right is the sort of thing we’re shooting for.

Fundamentally, nothing really needs to change. We’ve got the data, all we need do it change the presentation a little bit.

Mike Ormond has posted a walk-through for those of you who are new to WP7 OData.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

Last week at the Tech Days Online Conference, I did a quick WP7 demo that showed a simple app connecting to the Twitpic OData feed and pulling back a set of images for a particular user. I’m a newbie to OData and I must admit I found the process of figuring out how to achieve this relatively simple task to be quite frustrating, primarily because there’s so much “stale” content out there. The WP7 OData story has evolved rapidly in a relatively short time and what worked 6 months simply doesn’t work today.

Mike Ormond has published the links from his Tech Days virtual conference session.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

And I’ve uploaded the full deck to Slideshare.

Mike Ormond has found a nice list of WP7 guides and he wanted to share this with you.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

I just stumbled across these guides on the download centre and I must say there’s some great information in there for developers as well as IT Pros.

Mike Ormond talks about monitoring the memory usage of your WP7 app.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

Frame rate counters are available (for Silverlight at least) right out of the box on Windows Phone 7 (in fact they’re enabled by default in the standard VS project templates when a debugger is attached).