After a good week of solid Mango use, I must say its well worth the upgrade.

If you haven't tried a Windows Phone yet.

Mango will make you change your mind.

Its fast, integrated, polished.

We are currently developing a mango solution for a customer using

the amazing Telerik control suite.

Visual Studio, Silverlight, XNA makes developing for the phone an

enjoyable experience.

CastleSoft provides solutions for all types of business: on the desktop, the web and now on all the major mobile platforms.

Today CastleSoft purchased two new development tools:  Monotouch and Mono for Android from Xamarin.

Ximarin are the team of developer behind Mono the cross platform .NET framework.

CastleSoft already uses Mono for Mac and Linux deployments, with todays announcement/purchase we now use their

tools for our mobile phone development platform.

Watch this space for more exiting news as CastleSoft prepares for some product releases.

With Windows Phone Mango now available we have begun prototyping with the new Phone 7.1RC SDK.

Lots of enhancements that make developing for the phone enjoyable and productive.

Although Microsoft is playing catch up with the Phone 7 devices, the technology and design is far superior to

that of Apple and Android. 

At CastleSoft we specialize in .NET development and the new rich API in Mango is music to our ears.

Stay tune for more announcements soon.

As we head towards our release we have purchased an exception tracking/debugging tool by EurekaLog.

EurekaLog for .NET catches exceptions, and reports them to our support system for attention.

With this exception reporting we hope to provide fast responses for any errors that may have escaped our testing.

We hope our customers never need to see these screens.

Thinking of it as our insurance policy to make sure we catch any gremlins which may occur in production environments.

If your after a FREE, featured .NET obfuscating tool. Take a look at:

http://eazfuscator.blogspot.com/

http://www.foss.kharkov.ua/g1/projects/eazfuscator/dotnet/Default.aspx

It supports .NET 4.0, Silverlight, XNA, Windows SDK 7.1, MEF, LINQ, etc...

Its in active development, and has a number of very positive reviews.

Just upgraded to the Telerik Premium Collection. 

Not its time to put the finishing touches on our products which are WAY overdue.

We have a few surprises coming.... So stay tuned.

You can follow our latest tweets on Twitter by searching for @CastleSoft

Or by clicking on the following TWITTER LINK.

There has been a lot  of talk regarding Windows 8, HTML5 and Javascript and the lack of .NET or Silverlight coverage.

It would appear that Microsoft is readying a new application model code name “Jupiter” that will allow developers to create Silverlight based applications, deployed as AppX packages (.appx).

These applications will run on the following platforms (without change):

• Windows 7, Windows 8 (Intel and ARM)
• Windows Phone 7 and Phone 8
• Xbox 360 and Xbox Next Generation (name not released)
• Windows 8 Tablets

Appstore purchases will be available for ALL platforms with the same application available for all platforms.

For more details on Jupiter click here....
 

Some nice Windows 8 Videos to watch:  

http://bit.ly/kkOOey   

http://bit.ly/lSXdey

It does look impressive...