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  • B blackjack2150

    Unlike with Apple, the dev tools and emulator are free. You're paying $99 for the right to publish your app on the marketplace , and not for the right to write code. :) I'm very tempted to buy a WP7 device myself, provided they are reasonably priced.

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    Maximilien
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    The apple dev tools (and emulator) are free. As far as I can see, the upfront cost to developing on both the iDevices and the Phone7 is about the same.

    Watched code never compiles.

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    • R Rod Kemp

      In VS2010 there is the option of using Windows Phone 7 Emulator OR Windows Phone 7 Device the second option requires you to have Zune software installed but should allow you to deploy to a real device without going through the AppHub Or MS is being a real PITA.

      People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

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      Dan Mos
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      That's what I know too. But, I wouldn't bet my nonthinking head on it :)

      I used to think.... Finally I realized it's no good.

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        I was happy with my phone which could do phone call. Oh yeah, and SMS. Due to peer pressure I bought one of those fancy phone. More precisely a Windows Phone 7! My main intention with it, apart use it to give phone call and send SMS, was to do some WP7 development testing! :) But then I just had a bad surprise... You need a subscription of US$99 / year to Microsoft to even deploy on your own phone at home! Infuriating practice learnt from Apple no doubt! But now I have a useless phone, it's more expensive than the previous one and I can't even deploy my Silverlight 4 app to it! :mad: Ho well, I guess it's not too much, I'll just wait to have something interesting and develop on the emulator in the meantime... :(( Other than that I have no idea how good or bad it is, it is my 1st fancy phone, but it seems brisk enough, access SMS, email, Facebook, twitter, take nice pictures, internet explorer work well (reading CP with it! :P )

        A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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        David Crow
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        Super Lloyd wrote:

        But now I have a useless phone, it's more expensive than the previous one and I can't even deploy my Silverlight 4 app to it!

        And you did not bother researching this beforehand? :confused:

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          The apple dev tools (and emulator) are free. As far as I can see, the upfront cost to developing on both the iDevices and the Phone7 is about the same.

          Watched code never compiles.

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          Rod Kemp
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          Unless you don't own a Mac then you need to buy one to get the free dev tools.

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          • B blackjack2150

            Unlike with Apple, the dev tools and emulator are free. You're paying $99 for the right to publish your app on the marketplace , and not for the right to write code. :) I'm very tempted to buy a WP7 device myself, provided they are reasonably priced.

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            rastaVnuce
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            blackjack2150 wrote:

            Unlike with Apple, the dev tools and emulator are free.

            Apple's dev tools and iphone emulator are free as well.

            We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours!

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            • D Dan Mos

              That's what I know too. But, I wouldn't bet my nonthinking head on it :)

              I used to think.... Finally I realized it's no good.

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              Rod Kemp
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              :laugh: Neither would I but it is something that can be tested without cost (hopefully).

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              • S Super Lloyd

                I was happy with my phone which could do phone call. Oh yeah, and SMS. Due to peer pressure I bought one of those fancy phone. More precisely a Windows Phone 7! My main intention with it, apart use it to give phone call and send SMS, was to do some WP7 development testing! :) But then I just had a bad surprise... You need a subscription of US$99 / year to Microsoft to even deploy on your own phone at home! Infuriating practice learnt from Apple no doubt! But now I have a useless phone, it's more expensive than the previous one and I can't even deploy my Silverlight 4 app to it! :mad: Ho well, I guess it's not too much, I'll just wait to have something interesting and develop on the emulator in the meantime... :(( Other than that I have no idea how good or bad it is, it is my 1st fancy phone, but it seems brisk enough, access SMS, email, Facebook, twitter, take nice pictures, internet explorer work well (reading CP with it! :P )

                A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                Single Step Debugger
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                Super Lloyd wrote:

                You need a subscription of US$99 / year to Microsoft to even deploy on your own phone at home! Infuriating practice learnt from Apple no doubt!

                This sounds reasonable move because it will filter some of the crappy applications from the app store. The problem as I see it is that you are able to deploy app ONLY from the app store. IMO this is a huge mistake…I mean Apple type of mistake! If they start using the same approach for Windows and PC today, I estimate the Windows market share will shrink from 90% to 9% in about two years.

                The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                • S Super Lloyd

                  I was happy with my phone which could do phone call. Oh yeah, and SMS. Due to peer pressure I bought one of those fancy phone. More precisely a Windows Phone 7! My main intention with it, apart use it to give phone call and send SMS, was to do some WP7 development testing! :) But then I just had a bad surprise... You need a subscription of US$99 / year to Microsoft to even deploy on your own phone at home! Infuriating practice learnt from Apple no doubt! But now I have a useless phone, it's more expensive than the previous one and I can't even deploy my Silverlight 4 app to it! :mad: Ho well, I guess it's not too much, I'll just wait to have something interesting and develop on the emulator in the meantime... :(( Other than that I have no idea how good or bad it is, it is my 1st fancy phone, but it seems brisk enough, access SMS, email, Facebook, twitter, take nice pictures, internet explorer work well (reading CP with it! :P )

                  A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                  realJSOP
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                  You don't deploy silverlight apps. People browse to the web and if your browser has the right plugin, it just works. You could always just test on your desktop, can't you?

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                    Super Lloyd wrote:

                    You need a subscription of US$99 / year to Microsoft to even deploy on your own phone at home! Infuriating practice learnt from Apple no doubt!

                    This sounds reasonable move because it will filter some of the crappy applications from the app store. The problem as I see it is that you are able to deploy app ONLY from the app store. IMO this is a huge mistake…I mean Apple type of mistake! If they start using the same approach for Windows and PC today, I estimate the Windows market share will shrink from 90% to 9% in about two years.

                    The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                    Wjousts
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                    This is a problem I have with iWhatever devices. I'm developing apps that are internal apps for our business only, they should never find their way outside the company because they are specific for some things we do. About every week I hear some genius saying "hey, we should run this on our iPhone!", but, AFAIK, the only way to get something on the iPhone is through the public app store. Not good for software we want to keep within the company.

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                    • D David Crow

                      Super Lloyd wrote:

                      But now I have a useless phone, it's more expensive than the previous one and I can't even deploy my Silverlight 4 app to it!

                      And you did not bother researching this beforehand? :confused:

                      "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

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                      "Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius

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                      peterchen
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                      poor Lloyd wrote:

                      Due to peer pressure

                      She's probably hot.

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                      • R realJSOP

                        You don't deploy silverlight apps. People browse to the web and if your browser has the right plugin, it just works. You could always just test on your desktop, can't you?

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                        Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                        He is talking about Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps. They need to be developed and deployed on the phone. Contrary to the desktop browser, the mobile browser is Windows Phone 7 does not display the embedded SilverLight content.

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                          This is a problem I have with iWhatever devices. I'm developing apps that are internal apps for our business only, they should never find their way outside the company because they are specific for some things we do. About every week I hear some genius saying "hey, we should run this on our iPhone!", but, AFAIK, the only way to get something on the iPhone is through the public app store. Not good for software we want to keep within the company.

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                          Single Step Debugger
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                          It will be absolutely the same with the Windows phones. Our management have asked Microsoft/we are in top 10 of their biggest customers/ about this very problem last week and the answer has been “no”. No private stores, no private rooms in their store no corporate app farms or whatsoever in that extend.

                          The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                          • W Wjousts

                            This is a problem I have with iWhatever devices. I'm developing apps that are internal apps for our business only, they should never find their way outside the company because they are specific for some things we do. About every week I hear some genius saying "hey, we should run this on our iPhone!", but, AFAIK, the only way to get something on the iPhone is through the public app store. Not good for software we want to keep within the company.

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                            Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                            Wjousts wrote:

                            FAIK, the only way to get something on the iPhone is through the public app store. Not good for software we want to keep within the company.

                            That's not true at all. The Apple's enterprise development program ($250 / 5 devs) allows you to develop and deploy enterprise applications on iPhone without deploying them to the app store.

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                              poor Lloyd wrote:

                              Due to peer pressure

                              She's probably hot.

                              Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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                              Pete OHanlon
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                              Fair do to the chap then.

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                              • R realJSOP

                                You don't deploy silverlight apps. People browse to the web and if your browser has the right plugin, it just works. You could always just test on your desktop, can't you?

                                .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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                                "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

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                                Marc A Brown
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                                Ah, but for WP7, Silverlight and XNA are the two ways to develop apps for the phone (if I recall correctly). And strangely enough, I believe I read that the browser on the phone doesn't support Silverlight web apps.

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                                • S Single Step Debugger

                                  It will be absolutely the same with the Windows phones. Our management have asked Microsoft/we are in top 10 of their biggest customers/ about this very problem last week and the answer has been “no”. No private stores, no private rooms in their store no corporate app farms or whatsoever in that extend.

                                  The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                                  Rod Kemp
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                                  :omg: That is just so stupid, you would expect that if a business has an application that it only want to use in-house the last thing that is wanted is to HAVE to deploy it to an open marketplace where anyone can get a copy of it. MS must not want business to use WP7 in-house.

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                                  • S Super Lloyd

                                    I was happy with my phone which could do phone call. Oh yeah, and SMS. Due to peer pressure I bought one of those fancy phone. More precisely a Windows Phone 7! My main intention with it, apart use it to give phone call and send SMS, was to do some WP7 development testing! :) But then I just had a bad surprise... You need a subscription of US$99 / year to Microsoft to even deploy on your own phone at home! Infuriating practice learnt from Apple no doubt! But now I have a useless phone, it's more expensive than the previous one and I can't even deploy my Silverlight 4 app to it! :mad: Ho well, I guess it's not too much, I'll just wait to have something interesting and develop on the emulator in the meantime... :(( Other than that I have no idea how good or bad it is, it is my 1st fancy phone, but it seems brisk enough, access SMS, email, Facebook, twitter, take nice pictures, internet explorer work well (reading CP with it! :P )

                                    A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                                    Did you try this? Clickety![^]

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                                    • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                      Wjousts wrote:

                                      FAIK, the only way to get something on the iPhone is through the public app store. Not good for software we want to keep within the company.

                                      That's not true at all. The Apple's enterprise development program ($250 / 5 devs) allows you to develop and deploy enterprise applications on iPhone without deploying them to the app store.

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                                      Wjousts
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                                      Did not know that. Thanks. We're still unlikely to do it. iPhones still aren't IT approved devices here.

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                                      • S Single Step Debugger

                                        It will be absolutely the same with the Windows phones. Our management have asked Microsoft/we are in top 10 of their biggest customers/ about this very problem last week and the answer has been “no”. No private stores, no private rooms in their store no corporate app farms or whatsoever in that extend.

                                        The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                                        Wjousts
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                                        I wasn't saying that it wasn't the same. In fact, my point was that it is. Not sure why somebody down voted me except for daring to question Apple.

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                                        • W Wjousts

                                          I wasn't saying that it wasn't the same. In fact, my point was that it is. Not sure why somebody down voted me except for daring to question Apple.

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                                          Wjousts wrote:

                                          Not sure why somebody down voted me except for daring to question Apple.

                                          I was wondering the same, there are a strange people. I will try to compensate, though it’s someone with a good reputation.

                                          The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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