The Windows Phone developer ecosystem is enriched every day by companies, communities, and people who are creating offerings and resources to help developers quickly and easily build or port great apps for Windows Phone. Over the past year, we’ve...

I’m proud to launch the Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform. After years of planning and development, today we’re making available the most important advancement of our dev plat to date, including a new SDK and a refreshed Dev Center now open for Windows...

If you weren’t able to snag a spot at this year’s Build conference (which sold out in about an hour), you can still watch the keynote and many technical sessions from the comfort of your phone or PC. The keynote webcast kicks off at 9 a.m. Pacific, and...

[ 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...

Overview This article guides you through the process of creating a custom pinned Tile that links to your website. This helps you control your brand when users pin your site to their Windows Phone Start screen. This works on phones running Windows Phone...

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of the refreshed Windows Phone Store badge . The badge provides official branding assets to help you market your Windows Phone app, and help your customers find it.   The refreshed badge comes at...

As we announced in June , Windows Phone 8 will ship with Internet Explorer 10 – the same advanced web browsing engine that powers Windows 8. We’ll have much more to say about Internet Explorer 10 soon. The goal of today’s post is to...

In my last post , I talked about how we’re planning to roll out periodic updates to the Windows Phone Dev Center and Store infrastructure that address issues you report and occasionally include small feature enhancements. Well, it’s that time once again...

Windows Phone developers have three basic ways to make money from their apps: paid app sales, mobile advertising, and in-app purchases (coming in Windows Phone 8). Last month I wrote about my approach to paid apps, and how to take advantage of the Windows...

My colleague Mike Battista posted some great info earlier this year about how to develop apps for lower-memory phones. There’s also some excellent best practice guidance on the Windows Phone Dev Center. In this post, I aim to give you the big picture...

Today Larry Lieberman brings Windows Phone designer Jon Bell into the studio of Inside Windows Phone to talk about what makes an app design good or bad and how to make it better. Jon, by the way, is also a developer, which I think makes his take all the...

Windows Phone users love to swipe their phones smoothly to get to the information they want. Whether it’s swiping horizontally via panorama and pivot controls, or swiping vertical lists in areas such as the People Hub, users view the phone as a small...