Back in August of 2007 I put together a simple program that I used to share my location. The program would either respond to incoming text messages or send out my location upon request. The source code for the program wasmade available on CodeProject.com. You can find it here.
In January of 2009 I was playing with the Skyhook Wireless SDK and decided to apply it against the same code example with support for Bing maps. That code example was also made available on CodeProject.com. You can find it here.
In browsing through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile I came across a program that was functionally similar to the first code example. So I decided to go ahead and make the code available in a polished form to see how people take to it. The code has been refactored to use some dependency injection and IoC and I gave it a much better looking UI (Thanks to L. Seymour for taking care of that for me!) and ended up with the program pictured below.
In its present form it's functional, provides utility, but isn't feature complete. This version of the program (named FindMe v 3.0.0.0) doesn't automatically respond to incoming SMS request for location. I understand that that Touch HD 2 breaks .Net's SMS interception implementation and would rather leave that functionality out while I investigate it rather than having the program break on the hottest Windows Phone around. I've got to make a few more changes to the program and hope to submit it to the Marketplace next week for it to make it trough certification testing by the beginning of June.
Tags: Marketplace, Windows Phone