WP7Contrib: Isolated Storage Cache Provider

15/04/2001 - The code for this example has been updated - new WP7 build of SilverlightSerializer, this has removed the explicit implementation of ISerializeObject interface from the example model classes.WP7Contrib received it's first question on the discussions forum, it was about how to use the IsolatedStorageCacheProvider.Rich & I have been using this for a while in development and the question highlighted the lack of examples on...

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WP7: Thinking about performance implicitly

It's inevitable as the moon going around the earth - the performance of your Windows Phone 7 app will become an issue during your application development life cycle, hopefully you're using agile practices and therefore this won't happen to late in the process. There is one technique I believe you should always apply to the process and that is 'thinking about performance implicitly'.So I have 3 tips which help me achieve thinking about performance implicitly.The emulator is not your friend - You should as others have pointed out always...

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WP7Contrib: Location Push Model

Anyone who's tried to get your current location of a WP7 device will know this is not as simple as it first appears, the problems really revolve around the frequency at which the location information can be generated by the device (GeoCoordinateWatcher class) and the fact it is generated on the UI thread. Jaime Rodriguez has a very insightful post on the issues, you should read this first if you're not familiar with the issues. For the WP7Contrib...

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