This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam ANID and ANID2 ANID (anonymous ID) and ANID2 are hashed representations of the Microsoft account the user has entered on the device...

This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam As part 2 of this two-part series, this post focuses on the great new Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) v1.2 offered by the Windows International team...

We’re joining Core77 to present the five winners of the App to the Future challenge where designers were asked to create an app concept that helps them connect or delight their future self. Submissions were vast, with three times the amount of...

Our resident app developer, Bernardo Zamora, joins me today for a Question & Answer post, highlighting two ways to think about marketing your apps for increased discovery and downloads. Bernardo works on the Windows Phone Store team and has published...

Hello from Barcelona! Today I had the honor of joining Nokia at its App Developer Conference to help kick-off Mobile World Congress. Nokia shared some great phone and app news that you can read about here . For Microsoft, today is about showing you, our...

Hello everyone. As some of you may recall, not so long ago we announced a global contest* focused on helping your apps get more visibility with more customers via a featured placement in a Windows Phone prime-time TV ad in the U.S. The contest, called...

This blog post was authored by Erik Reitan, a programming writer on the Windows Phone developer content team. - Adam The Microsoft Media Platform team has recently released the 1.1 version of the Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 . This...

We’ve been talking a lot recently about what it will take to be one of the 64 winners of the Windows Phone Next App Star *contest to advance to the voting rounds, where the winning app will get the chance to be featured in a Windows Phone primetime TV...

We often hear from developers that they are looking for the next great app idea. They know how to build apps but just haven’t found the right thing to work on. So if you can't design your way out of a paper bag but have great development skills...

Last week, Microsoft launched modern.IE , a free set of tools and resources to help web developers ensure that their sites work beautifully across versions of Internet Explorer as well as other modern browsers. Our goal is to help web developers spend...

I wanted to call to your attention that Windows Phone 8 sales are beginning to ramp up in China and describe the huge reach and monetization opportunity this represents to the Windows Phone developer community. A wide array of Windows Phone 8 devices...

This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam This is Part 1 of a two part series. Part 1 gives you a deeper understanding of the standard pattern for localizing a Windows Phone 8 XAML app along...

Hi! I’m Kami LeMonds, merchandising manager for the Windows Phone Store. My team has the awesome job of selecting the apps we promote every day in the Windows Phone Stores across the globe. Many of you have inquired about how we select the apps we promote...

This blog post was authored by Mini Nair, a program manager on the Visual Studio team. - Jonathan Mobile phone users expect the apps running on their phones to perform well at all times and be of super quality. A slow startup or a jerky UI is...

This blog post was authored by Mike O'Malley, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Adam One of our main goals of the new Windows Phone map control is the seamless integration across our platform. Our users should expect to have...

This blog post was authored by Thomas Fennel, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Adam Flip , Cycle , and Iconic —you hear them in your sleep calling your name, don't you? Those are the beautiful Live Tile templates you can...

Today we are releasing the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 , an optional update that adds two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images to your existing SDK installation. These two emulator images should enable you to fully test how your Windows...

As part of the "App to the future" challenge (see details at the end of the post) we’ve conducted Lightning Design Review sessions for a few weeks, and one thing struck me as I was watching: review after review, I could clearly identify some recurring...

This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Jonathan Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, and we increasingly rely on them. With our phones we play games, check email,...

If you currently have a Windows Phone 7.x app that you’re thinking about updating to take advantage of Windows Phone 8 functionality, you have some decisions to make about support for your existing Windows Phone 7.x apps. To better serve your needs, the...

Hi folks, I’m Emilio Salvador Prieto. I manage the Windows Phone Developer Experience team. We work alongside our technical teams to help you get what you need to be successful -- things like developer features in the OS and Windows Phone Store, along...

That’s right – we’ve cooked up something very big for developers in 2013. I’ll fill you in on the details in a moment. By now you’ve probably noticed that for Windows Phone 8 we’ve deployed an all-new infrastructure focused on creating a great experience...

In Windows Phone 8, Microsoft introduced the Kid’s Corner feature that lets parents configure a separate Start screen for their children and populate it with only the apps, games, and content that they feel is appropriate. Because some features of the...

As the year draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect on what we’ve accomplished together in 2012. Our big goal this year was to establish a new, scalable platform on the phone and in the cloud upon which we can better achieve our mission: to provide...

This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Jonathan Consumers and businesses are increasingly becoming dependent on the continuous connection of smartphones to networks. However, there...