Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2

This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team. - Adam Testing your app throughout the development process can help you create a really great Windows Phone app. Testing helps ensure [..]

Use your HTML5 skills, port your PhoneGap app to Windows Phone, and win prizes

Many of you have heard about PhoneGap (aka Apache Cordova), the popular open source framework you can use to create mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. PhoneGap has supported the Windows Phone platform since Windows Phone 7.5, and had a [..]

Two Outstanding Documentaries

In December 2008 — between the election of Barack Obama and his inauguration — the Bush administration decided to give a farewell present to the oil industry by selling off drilling rights on parcels of public land in Utah's pristine [..]

XAudio2 Performance and Battery Considerations for Windows Phone 8

This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam In this post we cover important information for Windows Phone 8 developers who use the XAudio2 APIs, including best practices for battery [..]

Tips to grow your app revenue through in-app purchase

Your Windows Phone 8 app presents three potential sources of revenue: app sales, in-app advertisement, and in-app purchases. In a previous blog post I wrote about what you can sell in your Windows Phone 8 app by adding in-app purchase. You can: [..]

Yet Another Podcast #98–Jeff Fritz and ASP.NET, HTML5, more…

Latest Windows Phone app submission improvements

As Todd mentioned in his post last week, I’d like to share some details about the latest improvements we’ve made to Dev Center to address your feedback. Multiple XAP management during app submission As more developers update their apps to take [..]

Don’t Just Read “The Great Gatsby”

Something like the fifth movie version of The Great Gatsby is opening today, but it's silly to actually go see such a thing. The novel itself is quite short. You can probably read it in less time than it would take to go and see the movie, and [..]

Inside Windows Phone – Windows Phone and HTML5

This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry One of the exciting things and lesser known features in Windows Phone development is how it’s the perfect place to develop apps using HTML5. Jeff [..]

Back in Israel after 40 years

Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1

This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team. - Adam Testing your app throughout the development process helps to ensure that your app has a high level of performance and quality. [..]

Expanded developer opportunity – new payout markets and billing connections

We continue to take steps forward on the path to establish a Windows Phone ecosystem characterized by quality, scale, and developer opportunity. We are seeing strong results for the ecosystem since the launch of Windows Phone 8 with more than a 100% [..]

Inside Windows Phone – Data binding

Data binding is one of the fundamental concepts used for good Windows Phone application design, but can be difficult to grasp for newcomers. The core concept is this: No one wants to manually update the user interface elements. It’s best to have the [..]

Getting Twitter Avatar Via C# With 1.1 API

If you know someone's Twitter handle and would like to display their twitter avatar on your website, here's some code to get the URL of their avatar.  First, you'll need to register at http://dev.twitter.com and acquire a ConsumerKey, [..]

Yet Another Podcast #97–Chris Sells and the last 20 years

Published 3rd Pluralsight Course: WPF For the Enterprise From Scratch

Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects

This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam Here are the quick steps you need to take to set up a Windows Phone OS 7.1 Visual Studio project to use the techniques and features described in the [..]

Yet Another Podcast #96–John Papa on SPA and Public Speaking

Inside Windows Phone – code samples

What Windows Phone code samples are available to you, and how do you get them? We publish a large number of code samples that cover a solid range of Windows Phone developer scenarios. In this video, we touch on some of the code samples we’ve created [..]

Recovering a deleted site from IE Frequent List

For those of you still using Internet Explorer. This is the page I see when I create a new Tab in IE. The other day I accidently click on the Remove this page button in the corner of one of the items on this page. Unfortunately, it was a link to [..]

Facebook SDK for .NET - Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program

This blog post was authored by Sanjeev Dwivedi, a developer evangelist for Microsoft working with Facebook. - Adam Today we are pleased to share with you that Facebook has announced the Facebook SDK for .NET as part of the Facebook Technology [..]

Defining your app’s requirements for a great customer experience

One of the things I really enjoy about developing for Windows Phone is being able to reach a diverse audience across the globe. Windows Phone users access my apps on phones from different manufacturers, all with varying capabilities and price points [..]

Controlling a hardware prototype with your Windows Phone

This blog post was authored by Erik Reitan, a programming writer on the Windows Phone developer content team. - Adam You’re already familiar with creating great apps for Windows Phone, and porting your apps from iOS or Android, but did you know [..]

A Data Binding to the Text Property of Run?

Sometimes a programmer will encounter a situation where it's convenient to embed a changeable data value in a paragraph of text, and for this paragraph to re-wrap itself when the text representation of this data value acquires a different [..]

TechEd India, the India developer communities, and the Taj Mahal

In the second half of March, I traveled to India (Bangalore, Delhi, and Pune) to speak at TechEd India and TechDays Delhi about Windows 8 app development. I flew from Dulles International in VA to Charles De Gaulle in France, where I met [..]