UPDATE 12/13 : As my colleague Mazhar notes today, the web Store is now live in 37 new locations around the world. With these additions, customers can browse and buy apps on our website in a total of 112 markets worldwide (see the full list here ). The...

This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team. - Adam With the new set of Geolocation APIs in Windows Phone 8, your app can request a single position at any time, which means more flexibility...

This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team. - Adam In this post I describe how you can optionally modify your Windows Phone 7 geolocation code to use the new Windows Runtime (WinRT) Geolocation...

As today’s consumer blog post notes, Windows Phone 7.8 will begin to ship preinstalled on new phones in the coming weeks. This release also presents an important opportunity to increase the reach of your Windows Phone 7 apps and games, since we’re working...

A quick reminder that the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start begins this Wednesday – take a moment now to register . You won’t want to miss these two days of demo-rich sessions led by experts Andy Wigley and Rob Tiffany, two of the most respected experts in mobile...

We are pleased to announce a new Jump Start for developers focused on building apps for Windows Phone 8. The live online course is scheduled for two full days of fast-paced, demo-rich sessions led by Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Andy Wigley , and Microsoft...

The Toolkit team is proud to announce the release of the Windows Phone 8 version of the Windows Phone Toolkit. Here’s what’s new: New toolkit download from CodePlex Installation exclusively through NuGet (deprecated .msi download file) Windows Phone 7...

A couple of weeks ago at //BUILD I did an overview of the API surface and features offered for networking in Windows Phone 8 . Over the next few months, I’ll be writing drill-down posts focused on the individual sections I showed in the networking session...

Ensuring that your site works great on Windows Phone 8 is easier than ever, thanks to extensive HTML5 support in Internet Explorer 10. You might currently target WebKit on a site specifically optimized to support iOS or Android. Now, it’s very easy to...

In-app purchase is rapidly becoming the leading way to grow app revenue. Now, you can add it to apps and games that run on Windows Phone 8. Today I want to share key ideas to consider when using in-app purchase in your app, and describe at a high level...

We are excited to bring Internet Explorer 10 to web and app developers as part of Windows Phone 8. I posted earlier about how you can use IE10 on Windows 8 to do early testing of your sites. Now that the SDK is available , it is a great time for you to...

For several months we’ve been rolling out a series of infrastructure upgrades to the Windows Phone Store and Dev Center in preparation for Windows Phone 8. That work is now wrapping up, so I wanted to give you an update, tell you what these changes mean...

Last week was a tremendous week for Windows Phone developers, as we took the wraps off the new Windows Phone 8 developer platform by releasing the new SDK , delivering an exciting keynote presentation at //build 2012 and presenting 18 breakout sessions...

Earlier this week, at the //BUILD 2012 conference, we announced the Windows Phone 8 developer platform , the most significant enhancement to our dev platform to date. Built on a common core shared with Windows 8, the dev platform is all new – from the...

In addition to launching Windows Phone 8 and our new developer platform this week, we also refreshed the Dev Center , which is now ready for Windows Phone 8 app submissions. In case you haven’t had a chance to look around yet, I’ll briefly walk you through...