Category: Windows Phone Store

Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.3 for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps

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Coding4Fun team has released a new updates for their Windows Phone and Windows 8 controls. There are some interesting controls available for free through codeplex.com. Coding4Fun team are major contributors to .NET community including Channel9 video series etc. They always brings up innovation in whatever they do, including set of Kinect based tutorials and sample… Continue reading

Microsoft Media Platform – Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 updated to version 1.1

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Microsoft Media platform team has recently updated the “Media Player Framework” for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to version 1.1, which includes few enhancements and fixes. “Media Player Framework” helps you in building media applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.  The player framework contains an open source framework available for Silverlight, HTML5… Continue reading

Upcoming Webinars and Trainings on Microsoft Technologies(Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure, HTML5) – Feb 2013

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Jump Start – February 19: Building Web Apps with ASP.NET (February 19) An accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 team-taught by Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway. Windows Azure Hands-on Labs Online Training (February 20) Learn how to connect a Paas application to an Iaas application. Matt Hester… Continue reading

Windows Phone 8–Application Model & Fast Application Resume feature

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Windows Phone 8 has a new feature introduced called as ‘Fast Application Resume’, which allows the Windows Phone 8 OS to launch the application from suspended to running quickly. You feel like toggling between multiple apps with out much delay comparing to Windows Phone 7.x platform. With Windows Phone 7.5, OS was allowed to move… Continue reading

Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown

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Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available… Continue reading

Setting up Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8 and working with Visual Studio 2010/2012

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Microsoft has just released an update for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and 8.0 to provide support for Windows Phone 7.8 emulators.I have shared the details in my last blog post. With this article I will walk you through how it would look to work with this update. The following simple steps will help you with… Continue reading

Windows Phone – Downloading and Sideloading Apps from SDCard

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With Windows Phone 8 and new Windows Phone store – Microsoft has introduced the support for Manually download the .XAP files and install the application from an SDCard(Memory card). Follow the steps: Step 1: Windows Phone store will have an additional option  ‘Download and install manually’   for each application [Similar to the screen shot given… Continue reading

Develop Applications for Windows Phone and win a trip to Barcelona–Presenting to you by Windows Phone Geek & Nokia

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To celebrate the launch of the Lumia 920 and 820 devices, Windows Phone Geek and Nokia are offering awesome prizes for developers in the Lumia Geek 8 Week Challenge. http://windowsphonegeek.com/lumia-geek-8-week-challenge/ Developers can win a trip for 2 to MWC in Barcelona, customized Lumias and their very own demo space at MWC in Barcelona. All developers… Continue reading

Learn using the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training content–for Online or Offline view–Courtesy Channel9

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On November 28-29th 2012, Microsoft has hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective applications quickly. If you missed this outstanding event, you’re in luck. All 20 modules are now available online for your on-demand viewing, (or download)… Continue reading

Windows Phone store expands to 37 new countries, adds universal search, and supports installing apps via SD card

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Microsoft Windows Phone team announced the availability of Windows Phone web store to new 37 countries. It is pretty fast that Microsoft is expanding its reachability, now consumers from most of the countries from all over the world have the accessibility to Windows Phone store. The new markets are: Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso,… Continue reading

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