WP7 takes over Android

At least within our family. :) Being one of the first Hungarian developers to have an app published on the Windows Phone Marketplace I've been awarded an HTC Radar phone by Microsoft Hungary. As soon as the Hungarian Marketplace opened up, I suspect that MS Hungary wanted to see Hungarian developers climb through the obstacles of the publishing process as early and as fast as possible. The Radar was a nice motivation, and the publishing process turned out to be really streamlined and easy to follow.

Microsoft WP7 Meetup in Budapest

Today I drove to Budapest to attend a meetup with Microsoft Hungary, WP7.Hu and a number of talented WP7 developers and enthusiasts from the country. While it was fun (free snacks raise morale anywhere), not much has been said that I didn't already know. Still, it was great to meet in person with the WP7 guys at Microsoft Hungary, the staff of WP7.Hu and the teams behind such notable apps as SurfCube and AppFlow.

C#, Compact .NET, WP7 SDK 7.1 & AWS EC2

That title sounds like the beginning of some ancient joke. Well, it's anything but ancient! I just wanted to post some quick code on how to sign AWS EC2 query requests using Compact .NET in C#.

Since there is no high level API for AWS for the compact version of .NET (ie. when used for the WP7 SDK), your best bet is to make query requests directly. That also means you need to sign your requests yourself. Since I was unable to find a working example, I turned to an old piece of code and ported that to work with the compact version of .NET / WP7 SDK 7.1 (Mango) instead.