Microsoft has announced that upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh code named as “Tango” will have low profile 256 MB devices which would make Microsoft’s entry in to mobile market by delivering low cost Windows Phone devices. All existing Windows Phone devices are having 512 MB RAM, considering the mid-range or low entry market Microsoft has… Continue reading
Category: Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was launched in Europe, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, Mexico, and the EPAL region in the second half of 2010, and Asia in early 2011. With Windows Phone, Microsoft offers a new user interface with its design language named Metro, integrates the operating system with third party and other Microsoft services, and controls the hardware it runs on.
Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename “Photon”, but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to…
Windows Phone Development–Choosers and Launchers
While doing windows phone application programming you will come across some requirements such as: a. “Selecting a contact from contact book” b. “Open up Camera, take a photo and upload or use the photo” c. “Open a link in Web Browser” How you can achieve these typical tasks? Answer is pretty simple Windows Phone SDK… Continue reading
Introducing Monocross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono
I am evaluating different cross platform mobile development solutions. This is just a quick introduction to a framework I came across. What is cross platform mobile applications? A mobile application developed in such a way that it will work or run on most of the mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc.… Continue reading
Mobile Application Development
Mobile Applications are rapidly developing segment in the global mobile sector. Developing mobile applications targeting different mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Bada(Samsung’s Proprietary OS) is the trend setter now. Quoting from Wikipedia Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Updated to Final
Microsoft has released final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 which includes the support for Windows 8 and 256 MB devices for debugging. (previously I blogged about the release of CTP version of the same here) Windows Phone… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update – CTP
Microsoft has released an update for Windows Phone SDK tagged as “Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update“. As per microsoft release notes, the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update provides developers with additional capabilities to develop and test applications for Windows Phone 7.5 Devices with 256MB The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update provides additional functionality to the… Continue reading
MUGH – Windows Phone Day, Hyderabad on 19 Feb 2012
MUGH invites you to Windows Phone Day on 19th February 2012 – an exclusive full-day event on Windows Phone 7 Development. It is a good opportunity for folks who are willing to kick start with WP7 development. For Agenda, Registration, Venue and other details – http://mughwindowsphoneday.eventbrite.com/ PS: Attend Windows Phone Day, Participate in Windows Phone… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Final (RTW)
Microsoft has released final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Mango). The Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 provides you with all of the tools that you need to develop applications and games for both Windows Phone 7.0 and Windows Phone 7.5 devices. Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Final (RTW) Web Installer / Standalone… Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 Mango update goes to RTM (released to Manufacture)
Microsoft’s latest release for Windows Phone is out, long awaited with so many new features, Windows Phone 7.1 a.k.a MANGO. Officially Windows Phone team has signed-off the RTM build for Windows Phone 7 MANGO. The Mango update for current Windows Phone handsets will be ready this fall, and will come pre-installed on new Windows Phones.… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 : installation steps
Came across a nice blog by Dhanunjay Kumar (MVP) to guide you through nice installation steps for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 Please read through blog, it is really informative. Thanks Dhanunjay for such a nice article..
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