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Быстро, просто и бесплатно заказать такси в Минске?

Все владельцы Windows Phone 7 теперь могут это сделать!

Приложение для быстрого и удобного заказа такси в Минске. Если Вы живете не в Минске, то это приложение не для Вас.

Устали висеть в очереди звонков диспетчерской службы такси?
Надоело платить за вызов такси?
Не знаете, куда вызвать такси?

Flawless Google Latitude at gMaps 1.16 is available

Google latitude is working again and waiting for you!

gMaps Pro v1.16 includes completely new features as well as various fixes and improvements of existent functionality. We also have fixed critical issue with latitude authentication.

What’s new :
1. Latitude authentication hotfix.
2. New live tile alert integrated with Google Latitude. You will like it!
3. Details place and local search card
4. Directions list (for active route)
5. Various UI improvements and small bug fixes.

Just to remind you, we have twitter account @gmapswp7, gMaps Facebook page and UserVoice forum, where you can vote for ideas or propose new one.

Phone Dialer got v1.5

Hello!

With new great icon Phone Dialer got v1.5 and new cool features. We also greatly improved UI, made it simpler, more user frendy and closer to METRO UI.

Phone Dialer at marketplace

Waiting for your reviews and feedback!
TIA

gMaps Pro 1.14 with Favorites

gMaps Pro with Favorite locations support

Starting from version 1.14 you can PIN your favorite locations as LIVE TILES to home screen and have quick access to them in future!

New features:
1. Favorite locations
2. Combined layer selector
3. New languages supported: Chinese Traditional, Ukrainian
4. Various fixed and improvements by your requests at our User Voice forum

User Voice Forum

Visit our Facebook page and stay tuned!

Waiting for your feedback,
A.

got Mango? go gMaps 1.12!

Sweet mango update with a lot of useful features

We glad to announce that gMaps with version 1.12 goes MANGO! Sweet additions will be hardware compass and latitude background agent which updates your position in real time while application is not running.

New features:

1. Compass
2. Latitude background agent
3. New bicycle layer
4. Ability to hide all buttons on the map
5. Public transportation quick access
6. Show route to address from your contact!

And this is not completed list…
We appreciate your feedback. Help us make tool you’d like. Submit your ideas!

User Voice Forum

Waiting for your feedback,
A.

if (MyEvent != null) MyEvent(this, EventArgs.Empty) ?

Why should I check null every time I raise event?

I know you familiar with the syntax in the subject when you need to check event subscription before raise it.
But it is a little bit annoying to do it every time. And that is why in every class you use some kind of event helper:

public event EventHandler MyEvent;

private void RaiseMyEvent()
{
    if (MyEvent != null)
        MyEvent(this, EventArgs.Emtpy);
} 

...
//user code
RaiseMyEvent(); //raise event in safe way
...

If you ignore this check you can get NRE (NullReferenceException) without subscribers. But what if I say that the way above is not thread safe?
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Do you like native wp7 dialer?

We are not!

Fully-functional wp7 dialer now available in marketplace

Now you can search for contacts with T9 and qwerty keyboard, Russian transliteration, highlighting, quick dial and contact info. And it is all free and without ads.

And BTW it is our first mango app.
Waiting for your feedback!

Download from marketplace

Google Latitude on WP7 device?

Keep in touch with your friends with gMaps and Latitude

Do you want Google Latitude system for Windows Phone 7?
Just released gMaps Pro v1.11 is the only app in marketplace which supports it. Try it out!

google latitude for wp7

Waiting for your feedback,
A.

SQL CE Mango Database with WP7 Fail?

Hello

Recently I have checked WP7 embedded database SQL Compact Edition (as I understand 4.0).

It was need at one of the apps for quite a simple approach but timing results was
unexpectedly poor… I have checked a simple case with one table with primary key
and 2 additional columns to store cached data.

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Naval Battle X vs Facebook

Naval Battle X has just been integrated with Facebook.
You can play this game with any random user from phone or Facebook!