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Recently I had some time to play with the new Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools CTP. I have created a sample application (called „geoGallery”), you can watch the demo video and download the code. It’s a Gallery application, but to give it a little twist, it gets the pictures from Google Picasa based on your location!

Download source code

Now I’m going to guide you through the code, focusing on the Phone specific features, methods and problems I experienced.

Why is multitasking missing and how to hide the fact?

Windows Phone 7 at this very moment does not support Multitasking for 3rd party applications. There are a lot of reasons for that and as an IPhone user I could not agree more with this decision. Running different applications parallel means more power consumption, more memory consumption and higher cpu load. These factors directly lead to reduced User Experience, like your battery says goodbye in a couple of hours, the screen is not so smooth when using multitouch, it’s „lagging”, or changing between applications might get really slow.

 Sample RSS Feed application using Windows Phone 7 Series SDK.

Shows RSS feed title list from http://www.visitmix.com/RSS 

Article details showed in WebBrowser control based on user selection in the list.

 RSS app code 

This is Denislav Savkov image slider control ported to windows phone 7 series.

Please find the url of orignal silverlight control.

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Image-slider-control-in-Silverlight-1.1.aspx

Ported version of the control. 

PhotoViewer.zip