About two months ago, Brandon announced our partnership with PreEmptive Solutions to bring analytics for free to every Windows Phone 7 developer. The reception has been great: developers are using PreEmptive’s Runtime Intelligence (RI) for Windows...

Paramount Pictures announced today that they’re bringing enhanced movie apps to Windows Phone 7.  Paramount is releasing 10 full movies which include all the bonus content from a DVD plus stuff you can’t get on a disc like trivia by ‘Scene It?’. ...

The Nonlinear Navigation Service is the first recipe we are releasing. Windows Phone recipes are a group of open source (MSPL) projects aimed at helping the Windows Phone community with their applications. Recipes are usually common patterns for topics...

(Blog post updated with new links - 1/31/2011) Windows Phone recipes are open source (MSPL) projects aimed at helping Windows Phone developers with their Windows Phone applications. Recipes are usually common patterns for topics that require some attention...

Without feedback and progress controls, an application lacks communication to users. Implementing touch feedback and progress ensures the application is performing properly, indicating successful user interaction, furthermore it allows to establish the...

It has been very humbling to see the developer excitement and all of the great new apps coming to Marketplace every day. As I sit here and type this, over 18,000 registered developers have signed up and have already published nearly 4,000 apps in Marketplace...

A common slip-up we find on some of the apps that we review is the use of illegible fonts, items too close to each other or items too small to be easy to touch. In the first case the outcome is obvious, the user will not be able to read the text or it...