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In this short blog post, Vikram Pendse talks about some smart improvements for Text in Silverlight 5.

Source: Explore .NET with Vikram Pendse

I hope you must have installed Silverlight 5 Beta bits on your machine and wondering what’s new you got in those bits. Well, there are lots of new things hidden inside which are worth exploring.I am doing the same with equal passion and enthusiasm.

Vikram Pendse came across a wonderful 3D engine for Silverlight and was amazed to find that it's also available for Windows Phone 7.

Source: Explore .NET with Vikram Pendse

This is not my first time to talk on 3D on Silverlight or Phone platform,In past I wrote decent amount of stuff including Kit3D,3D in Silverlight and recently I wrote 3D on Windows Phone 7 using capabilities of Silverlight framework sitting inside phone.

In this post, Michael Stroh discusses the first update for Windows Phone.

Source: Windows Phone Blog

This first update for Windows Phone is designed to improve the software update process itself. So while it might not sound exciting, it’s still important because it’s paving the way for all future goodie-filled updates to your phone, such as copy and paste or improved Marketplace search.

In the future, I encourage you to check out our new update history page on the Windows Phone website for a brief, plain-English summary of what each update does or what features it adds to your phone.

Vikram Pendse also posted some information about this update on his blog.

More reflections on Nokia and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 deal by Vikram Pendse.

Source: Vikram Pendse's Blog

Today’s announcement made about Nokia and Microsoft created lot of buzz all over internet. Some people calling it as smart move,Some are saying that Microsoft helped Nokia from sinking down. Really? 

In this post, Vikram Pendse discusses the Copy and Paste support for Windows Phone 7 Actual Device.

Source: Explore .NET with Vikram Pendse

Currently,we do not have Copy Paste inside Emulator. Life becomes easy in Apps so as not to type same things multiple times. Copy/Paste is useful in such scenarios.Common examples can be while drafting SMS or working with MS Word on Mobile or typing Name,Address etc.

Vikram Pendse put his thoughts for Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7 in a very short demo.

Source: Explore .NET with Vikram Pendse

The way you integrate your Bing Maps in Silverlight Application and over here is almost same since platform for both is Silverlight. You need Key for Bing Maps and API in place so as to make things easy for you, You can refer my old article here.

Source: Explore .NET with Vikram Pendse

This is very important topic from application development perspective which will allow developers to use some phone specific functionality like Calling, Sending SMS via application which can be either done with functions who are built in the phone.

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Whenever you start with new project of Windows Phone 7, By default you will get on default splash screen as JPEG format titled as “SplashScreenImage”.This is a 10KB file,Default size of this Image is 480x800 and it is always recommended to keep the same even while you customize it.

For this I am making use of Microsoft Tool itself, Yes ! I am talking about Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool, Though this is in Beta version, still it performs and sufficient for our development.