Microsoft has released an release candidate version for VS2013 Update 5 (short: 2013.5). This update is the latest in a cumulative series of technology improvements and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013. What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Current iteration query token Team Project Rename support for Local Workspaces : – [ability to… Continue reading
Category: Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone Screen Sharing/Mirroring to PC
Being mobile developer and strong follower of Mobile related technologies, always admire to demonstrate my work to my friends and colleagues. All this time I was fancy about iOS Mirroring provided through apps Reflector and Air Server. With help of these tools we used to mirror our iPad/iPhone to be mirrored to a Windows/Mac and… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2013 – Update 2 is available
Microsoft has released the latest update for Visual Studio 2013 with major improvements including support for developing Universal apps for Windows 8.x, Win Phone, and XBOX. Here are the list of improvements included as part of the release(lending from Visual Studio team blog): Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has many new capabilities as well as… Continue reading
WP8Dev– How to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone
This post will give you an overview on how to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone. As a developer when you are developing for Windows Phone – and your application would need to interact with certain sensors in windows phone to achieve a certain functionality, you would need to verify whether the sensors… Continue reading
Sending Mobile Push notification using C#/.NET (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Blackberry)
This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#. With that blog – I introduced you to how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth. Redth announced that library is already deprecated. Redth came up with with another open source… Continue reading
Installing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX
Typically I used to try latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 8.0 development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 8.1 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V cannot be installed:… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322–Released
Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update. This update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 adds four new emulator images to an existing installation of Windows Phone SDK 8.0. This update requires Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. Using this update, you can test how your apps will run on devices that have build 8.0.10322… Continue reading
Windows Phone 8.0 GDR2–Update–What you can expect
Microsoft has updated the windows phone 8 update history page leaving details of features or enhancements included in upcoming update for Windows Phone 8 Platform. As per Microsoft the version number of this update build would be 8.0.10327.77 or 8.0.10328.78 (version number is specific to certain phone model) One interesting feature included among is ‘FM… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 Preview Now Available
Microsoft has released the preview version of upcoming Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 DOWNLOAD: Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 Preview . Read more about this release from Somasekhar’s blog
Windows Phone Toolkit–June 2013–Release – v4.2013.06.11
Windows Phone team has released the latest update(v 4.2013.06.11) for Windows Phone Toolkit available through NuGet. Get it as an NuGet package: https://nuget.org/packages/WPtoolkit/4.2013.06.11 Find what’s new in Release Notes: https://phone.codeplex.com/releases/view/106971