To Go Native Or Not To Go Native… That Is The Question

Over the past couple of weeks I have been slowly planning and revamping my iPhone app to address user concerns, bugs, and problems. And as part of the rework I decided to support other platforms, in addition to the iPhone, such as the iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7. However with this new focus, I had one huge problem, how was I going to learn each new SDK. This problem led me to struggle with if I should develop for each platform natively in its own language and SDK or use a cross platform programming language that would basically put a shim on top of the native SDK. The pros and cons of each approach where the following: ...

October 20, 2010 · 3 min · 638 words · Nick Berardi

Uninstalling Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP

Today I decided to upgrade to the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Toolkit, however the uninstall process wasn’t working. It kept asking me what I wanted to install every time I choose the uninstall radio button. So after a couple failed attempts at uninstalling in different ways, I decided to go to the source, in my case that was: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP – ENU ...

July 12, 2010 · 1 min · 114 words · Nick Berardi