Windows Phone & WinRT….why?

As I mentioned in my last post my free time, when coding, is taken up with getting my first Windows Phone application completed and published.

So whilst doing this and getting to grips with WP7 development I started hearing about how Windows Phone will be changing (Mary Jo-Foley’s blog, Windows Phone dev blog) and that for Apollo, the next Windows phone OS release, Microsoft will make Windows Phone use the Windows 8 kernel.

My first reaction is why? why change it, Microsoft as a company need to get as many companies/people developing apps on

Windows Phone 7 Test Helper

Just a short post as currently all my time is taken up trying to get my first Windows Phone 7 app completed which I’ll blog about once its all done.

When I started my WP7 dev, me being me, I went TDD from the off but ran straight into an issue where I couldn’t fake the IsolsatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings which I’ve been using for data storage.

As I’m new to the platform I decided to live with it but last night I created code that I needed to test around storing data so I decided enough was enough and created a little wrapper class so I could fake the ApplicationSettings class.

Thus is born my WP7.TestHelper assembly where I’ll add any other classes that I find where I need to fake them for testing and you can’t do it out of the box.

As usual you can find the code in a repo on my GitHub.