Yesterday I had some problems with the PhoneTextBox in the November 2011 Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit.

After installation i could not see the new PhoneTextBox.

I searched on the internet and found a Workaround in the Issue Tracker.
Deinistallation of the Toolkit and recompiling the Toolkit Source.
So i recompiled the original source, put the new Toolkit DLL in the October Folder:
(C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Toolkit\Oct11)
and added the new reference to my Project.
Still the same :-( !! , no PhoneTextBox.

I found out that when i add the new reference to the October folder, the reference in my project is not changed.
It's still the same old Toolkit reference:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Toolkit\Aug11\Bin\Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit.dll

It doesn't work, however, to change the refernce to a new folder.
So okay, the project seemingly wants the Toolkit in the August Folder.
I copied the new DLL to the August Folder and the new PhoneTextBox appeared in my project.

We had some difficulties with the webrequest caching in
the CaptchaToGo app in the last days.

A liitle background: captcha.trader improved their API and removed the no-cache header.

On the Windows Phone side, adding a cache-control (no-cache) header in the HttpWebRequest did not have any effect.

So the solution was a dirty old trick:
I gave the URL a random parameter and every request is a new request ;-)

Not the the best solution, but it works!

Enjoy the new Version 1.1

Hey everyone,

Christof fixed some bugs in our latest WP7 app CaptchaToGo.

Make sur you update to this version.

If you haven't heard about this app, here's a short version of what it does:

It gives you remote access to the captcha.trader community, where you earn credits by solving other people's captchas. You can spend them on letting others solve captchas for you.

CaptchaToGo sends these captchas to your phone. Here you can solve them while commuting by train or bus or wherever you have some time to kill.

While this app is not availible over the Microsoft Marketplace, you still can get it for free. All you need is ChevronWP7, the official Windows Phone 7 unlock tool.

CaptchaToGo.xap (291,21 kb)