I’m here in Redmond attending the annual MVP summit. Besides all the terrific sessions, connecting with product teams, and the after parties, I’m excited about what I’ve seen on the upcoming Apollo release of the Windows Phone OS. While an NDA prevents me from providing any detail, I can say that, in my view, Microsoft is making the right choices regarding the direction of the phone that will make it an easy choice for business...

After the success of last month’s .NET developers meeting in Geneva, we’re doing it again! Feel like meeting up with other developers to discuss Microsoft software development, in particular Windows Phone, XAML, WinRT, Silverlight , WPF and ASP.NET? Come join us at the Microsoft building in Geneva between the 12th and 16th of March. A poll has been set up to narrow down the date. Please let us know if you’d like to attend by...

Live near the Geneva area of Switzerland? Feel like meeting up with other developers to discuss Microsoft software development, in particular Windows Phone, XAML, WinRT, Silverlight , WPF and ASP.NET? Come join us at the Microsoft building in Geneva on the 7th of February 2012. Please let us know if you’ll attend by adding your name to this poll. The location of the meeting is: Microsoft Sarl MBC 12 ave. des Morgines 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva...

Recently I took part in an interview with CodeProject. It includes some info about my background, projects, interests.

Update: Since first posting this article, a later version of the WP FCL the ProgressIndicator gained binding support. You can bind it in a page like so: <shell:SystemTray.ProgressIndicator> <shell:ProgressIndicator IsIndeterminate="{Binding Busy}" IsVisible="{Binding Busy}" Text="{Binding Message}" /> </shell:SystemTray.ProgressIndicator> The Mango beta of the Windows Phone 7 SDK sees the inclusion of a new way to display progress of asynchronous operations within the phone’s system tray. This is done using the new ProgressIndicator class, which is a...