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 changes...

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 your...

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 inspector...

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 from MSDN...

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 and...

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 Notification Services...

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 APIs...

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 the Windows...

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 and...

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 addition...

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 demonstrates...

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...