Windows Phones provide many opportunities for developers to build great applications. Nevertheless, in some cases a developer is limited by the attributes specific to any mobile device – constrained processing, battery life, limited storage, and intermittent...

With Windows Phone “Mango” declaring RTM and developer tools hitting “RC” , it is time to start getting websites updated for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) availability on Windows Phone. In today’s post, we’ll describe changes...

Last month we announced the first set of winners for #WPAppItUp. The first 20 phones were awarded for some amazing student-created app prototypes. Today, I’m proud to announce the second round of winners who will all be getting a pre-release HTC...

We promised in late July that August would bring another round of developer news. That day has come! Today we will begin accepting and certifying Mango apps through the App Hub. This means that new and existing titles optimized for Mango features like...

We noted last month that App Hub would begin accepting Mango apps in late August. The infrastructure for accepting your Mango apps is coming online as we speak! Some of you may already be seeing new content as we conduct a final round of tests. Stay tuned...

Since the new Windows Phone Marketplace for ‘Windows Phone Mango’ is nearly ready for submission of your apps, developers will be happy to know that today we are releasing the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (August 2011) add-on. This is a great...

The opening of the Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Phone Mango is drawing near! We’ve blogged recently about all of all of the amazing new things you can do in Windows Phone ‘Mango’ and we’ve also mentioned that we encourage developers to test their...

As web sites become more like applications, measuring and tuning their performance dramatically increases in importance, especially on mobile devices where latency and other performance-related factors have a high impact on user satisfaction. In fact...