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    Required pubCenter Update for Microsoft Ad Units

    by Bernardo Zamora Bernardo Zamora in Windows Phone Developer Blog
    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...
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    Inside Windows Phone - Use Location and Mapping in your Apps

    by Larry Lieberman Larry Lieberman in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Jun
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    Remote HTML5 debugging on Windows Phone with weinre

    by Charles Morris Charles Morris in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Jun
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    Windows Phone 8 Samples Update

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Jun
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    TechEd North America 2013 Summary

    by Emilio Salvador Prieto Emilio Salvador Prieto in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Jun
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    No-quota push notifications using a root Certificate Authority

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Jun
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    HttpClient 2.1 available on NuGet

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Jun
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    Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 3

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
    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...
  • May
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    Declaring your DataContext in markup

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    SQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone

    by Peter Torr Peter Torr in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Inside Windows Phone – Practical MVVM for Windows Phone

    by Larry Lieberman Larry Lieberman in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Windows Phone 8 XAML LongListSelector

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Use your HTML5 skills, port your PhoneGap app to Windows Phone, and win prizes

    by JC Cimetiere JC Cimetiere in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    XAudio2 Performance and Battery Considerations for Windows Phone 8

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Tips to grow your app revenue through in-app purchase

    by Bernardo Zamora Bernardo Zamora in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Latest Windows Phone app submission improvements

    by Rushmi Malaviarachchi Rushmi Malaviarachchi in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Inside Windows Phone – Windows Phone and HTML5

    by Larry Lieberman Larry Lieberman in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
    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...
  • May
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    Expanded developer opportunity – new payout markets and billing connections

    by Todd Brix Todd Brix in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • May
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    Inside Windows Phone – Data binding

    by Larry Lieberman Larry Lieberman in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Apr
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    Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Apr
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    Inside Windows Phone – code samples

    by Larry Lieberman Larry Lieberman in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Apr
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    Facebook SDK for .NET - Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program

    by Adam Denning Adam Denning in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
  • Apr
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    Defining your app’s requirements for a great customer experience

    by Bernardo Zamora Bernardo Zamora in Windows Phone Developer Blog
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    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...
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