I’m currently seeking volunteers to help translate Network Dashboard into other languages. It’s a fairly small app, so there’s only about 45 phrases that need to be translated. I’ve had offers for German and Italian translations already and have sent the template off to them, so I will hopefully have those translations soon. Anyone interested in translating Network Dashboard into another language, please contact me at groberts@purity.net.

Yesterday at the Build Blogger Bash at Microsoft’s Build conference, Brandon Watson, Microsoft Senior Director of Windows Phone Development, mentioned Network Dashboard during a live recording of the Windows Phone Dev Podcast. I showed him Network Dashboard and he immediately downloaded it on his phone. On the podcast He said, “I love it!”

You’ll find the mention at about 36 minute mark in the video:

Thanks for the shoutout Brandon!

I want to give a shout-out to the folks at Flickyflocky and give them my thanks for putting on a great Windows Phone 7 design contest!  Thanks to the support of friends, family and others in the tech community I was able to win the contest and secure the prize — a registration to MIX11 in Las Vegas! So I’ll be headed to MIX11 to soak up all the knowledge presented there regarding web and phone development with the Microsoft platforms! If there’s anything you’d like me to try to find out or to specifically pay attention to, please let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best.

The Windows Phone 7 Development Team announced today the immediate availability of the RTW (Release To Web) version of the Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. For the initial release, this version requires Visual Studio 2010 Professional and only supports Silverlight projects.