Windows Phone Toolkit June 2013 update – summary

This blog post was authored by Rohan Thakkar, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam Windows Phone Toolkit June 2013 update is now ready to download Source code: https://phone.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest NuGet package: [..]

Required pubCenter Update for Microsoft Ad Units

Microsoft Advertising is committed to increasing advertiser demand and growing advertising revenue for mobile app developers. The latest improvements to increase developer monetization and end-user relevancy have just been released – these involve [..]

Get an AGENT Smart watch and help them get to 1MM

If you're a Windows Phone (or iOS or Android) user and want a smart watch which you can program using .NET, then get into the AGENT watch kickstarter before it ends in just 4 days. You may know Secret Labs from their most popular NETMF [..]

Inside Windows Phone - Use Location and Mapping in your Apps

On this week’s Inside Windows Phone, Matthias and I review in detail how easy it is to add mapping and location functionality to your apps. For apps in which this is relevant, it is an amazingly easy way to radically improve the interactivity of [..]

Remote HTML5 debugging on Windows Phone with weinre

This blog post was authored by Oren Freiberg, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone Browser team. - Charles Exciting news for HTML5 developers on Windows Phone 8: weinre (WEb INspector REmote) support has arrived! Weinre is a remote DOM [..]

Windows Phone 8 Samples Update

This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne (@AndrewJByrne), a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team. - Adam The Windows Phone Developer Content team is continually adding new code samples that you can download [..]

What’s On My Desk?

TechEd North America 2013 Summary

We were really excited to be at TechEd North America 2013 this week, where we participated in 15 deep, technical sessions all about Windows Phone for IT pros and enterprise developers. Windows Phone 8 is gaining enormous traction in the enterprise [..]

No-quota push notifications using a root Certificate Authority

This blog post was authored by Austin Laugesen, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam These are the steps you can take to implement no-quota (unthrottled) push notifications for your Windows Phone app using Microsoft Push [..]

HttpClient 2.1 available on NuGet

HttpClient is a modern networking API that makes it easy to access any resource exposed through HTTP. The HttpClient API has been available in some versions of the .NET Framework for a while now. This NuGet package makes a standard set of HttpClient [..]

Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 3

This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team. - Adam This is the final post in a 3-part series that outlines key test areas that you should consider before submitting your app to [..]

Recent videos and music tracks

I've put up a few videos and music tracks lately. Enjoy (view on my site to see the videos. They don't usually appear in RSS readers) Also "Pete plays with arpeggiators". Video created in After Effects and Premiere Pro. The background [..]

My Windows Store XAML book is now available

Look what just arrived at the door! The author copies are usually in the first set to be sent out. For folks who have pre-ordered paper copies, you should see those really soon. The ebooks typically show up shortly afterwards. Yes, this [..]

An Easy Grid Splitter for Windows 8

Windows 8 doesn't have a GridSplitter control, most likely because the concept doesn't quite fit in with the Windows Store design paradigm. But sometimes you'd like to allow the user the freedom to change the relative sizes of two columns or rows [..]

Microsoft Please Fix Dialogs in our Tools

Dear Microsoft Program Managers and Product Unit Managers, Please update Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio to no longer use fixed sized dialogs in these applications. It’s 5 seconds per dialog of an interns time to do this for these [..]

Declaring your DataContext in markup

This blog post was authored by Steve White, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone team. - Adam Setting the DataContext property to a view model instance in your page markup can increase the “designability” of your pages in Visual Studio [..]

SQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone

The SQLite WinRT wrapper is a CodePlex project that offers lightweight Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs you can use to access the most common SQLite database functionality. The latest update of the library supports Windows Phone 8 development in [..]

5th Pluralsight Course: C# From Scratch

Yet Another Podcast #99–John Bristowe

Inside Windows Phone – Practical MVVM for Windows Phone

This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry The cornerstone app architecture for Windows Phone development is the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern. In this video, Matthias Shapiro [..]

Windows Phone 8 XAML LongListSelector

This blog post was authored by Rohan Thakkar, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam Last year we evangelized the use of the LongListSelector control to provide smooth infinite scrolling scenarios. The LongListSelector control is so [..]

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 [..]

4th Pluralsight Course: JavaScript From Scratch

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 [..]