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Find out why Shawn Wildermuth didn't like the MIX11 keynote!

Source: Shawn's Blog

I didn't like the keynote. Period. If business application development is the big story (with media being a more minor story; or at least a smaller user base), why wasn't it highlighted at all in the keynote. In fact, the first demo (the Blue Angels) was a consumer facing *website*. The exactly thing we've been told that HTML5 is the perfect match for. To add insult to injury, the presenter made a point of saying the landing page was HTML5 and using the Video tag! It's a nice site, but its completely off message.

Shawn Wildermuth is very proud to announce that Phoney Tools has now reached 1.0.

Source: Shawn's Blog

You can get the Phoney Tools in three ways:

• Download the Phoney Binary Release 
• Download the Phoney Source Code (This includes source and an example application)
• Use NuGet! NuGet package has been released for this project. Just search for Phoney and you'll find it!

Shawn Wildermuth demonstrates through a short video the most important according to him update in WP7 NoDo - the copy and paste on the phone.

Source: Shawn Wildermuth's Blog

I was playing with my newly updated Windows Phone 7 (with the March 2011 - or so called NoDo update). While I can attest I can sense the speed increase, especially in games and in tombstoning of applications; the big feature is copy and paste on the phone.

I recorded this short video to show how to use Copy/Paste (as well as how to repeat the operation:

Shawn Wildermuth announced v0.7 of Phoney Tools, aimed at being completely ready for MIX.

Source: Shawn Wildermuth's Blog

The new version is now available that includes a couple of new features and a few bug fixes.  The changes include:

InputPanelProvider

I find it painful to play the trial-and-error approach when specifying the InputScope of a TextBox. To alleviate this I've created an attached property where you can specify what you require from an input scope and have it assigned for you.  To use this you simply apply an attached property called InputPanelProvider.Requirements.

We are glad to announce that Shawn Wildermuth's new book titled "Essential Windows Phone 7: Application Development with Silverlight" will be released on July 16th, 2011. Expect 350 pages of useful information on developing for the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

See the book & find out how to pre-order it >>

About the author

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books about .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years of software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com/). He is currently teaching workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain (https://agilitrain.com/).