Since launching the Windows Phone Dev Center last month, we’ve been reading your comments and monitoring support requests closely. This week we’re rolling out the first of a planned series of regular updates to Dev Center. These are designed to both address...

One key question some Windows Phone developers struggle with when putting an app on sale is: how much should I charge? The Windows Phone Dev Center gives developers more control over pricing because Dev Center now lets developers set a unique price (from...

We have a team of talented programming writers here who are always eager to help you build Windows Phone apps faster and better. Besides the developer documentation work they do for the Windows Phone Dev Center , they also occasionally write about Windows...

How do you ensure that an app built for an earlier release of Windows Phone continues to work great on Windows Phone 8? Whether you participate in the SDK preview program Todd Brix talked about today or not, here are some tips for future proofing your...

Today we begin accepting requests for access to the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Developer Preview program. The objective is to let developers of our most-downloaded apps start optimizing them for Windows Phone 8, and we expect the majority of published developers...

Many of you already know about the infrastructure upgrades to the Windows Phone Dev Center we’ve been rolling out the last two months. Less obvious is that these backend changes have also allowed us to make some improvements to our online consumer store...

[ Performance is a key concern for all but the most trivial of apps, and memory usage helps determine how well your app runs. In this series, Pratap Lakshman shows how the Windows Phone Performance Analysis Tool can help you diagnose and fix memory issues...

In June we provided an early look at some developer features of Windows Phone 8, promising to share the Software Development Kit (SDK) in late summer. Select partners and developers have already seen early builds of the new SDK, helping to test the new...