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...

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...

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 major...

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 performance...

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: Sell...

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 advantage...

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 Burtoft, an...

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...

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% increase...

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 UI...

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 blog posts...

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 to...

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 Partners...

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 to...

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 that...

The Coding4Fun Toolkit is a set of powerful controls and libraries that you can use, free, to add rich features and functionality to your XAML Windows Phone apps (and also to your Windows 8 Store apps). I recently talked to Clint Rutkas, the toolkit creator...

WINDOWS PHONE NEXT APP STAR UPDATE: Congratulations to our 21 confirmed Windows Phone Next App Star Sweepstakes winners: Tom R. (Bloomlington, USA), Michael L. (Navestved, Denmark), Sergey B. (Burlington, Canada), Vanessa B. (Levis Canada), Rohit...

Hi everybody! I’m Rushmi Malaviarachchi, lead program manager for the Windows Phone Dev Center. I work on the engineering team that’s responsible for the Dev Center website , the Dev Center app , and the app ingestion system that gets your apps into the...

It’s hard to believe we’re down to the final 4 in our Windows Phone Next App Star contest. But from 9,000 apps submitted by developers in 79 countries, then narrowed to 64 apps, then voted by the public down to 32, 16, and 8… here we are. We’d like to...

As we head into the final stretch of consumer voting in the Windows Phone Next App Star contest, I wanted reach out to the developer community with an update. We created the contest to shine the spotlight on your creations, and to help get these apps...

The Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, which shows you how to use common capabilities in 3-D apps and games, has been updated to support Windows Phone 8. With support for Windows Phone 8, code and assets are shared as much as possible in this update of the...

In Windows Phone OS 7.1, Microsoft introduced the background agents feature which enables you to periodically run a small piece of code in the background. The same technology is used for background audio playback , and in Windows Phone 8 it was extended...

We’re at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco today showing developers just how fast and efficient it is to port their existing games to Windows Phone. Window Phone 8 unlocks a world-class game developer platform with support for native...

UPDATE 3/20: The Windows Phone Next App Star voting site is back up. To ensure fairness, votes cast yesterday will not be counted. However, yesterday’s voters are still eligible for the March 19 free phone drawing . UPDATE 3/19 : We’ve taken the voting...

This blog post was authored by Ben Riga, a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team. You can find out more about Ben at http://about.me/ben.riga . - Larry It’s no secret that we built Windows Phone 8 on a shared Windows...