Hello from Barcelona! Today I had the honor of joining Nokia at its App Developer Conference to help kick-off Mobile World Congress. Nokia shared some great phone and app news that you can read about here . For Microsoft, today is about showing you, our...

Hello everyone. As some of you may recall, not so long ago we announced a global contest* focused on helping your apps get more visibility with more customers via a featured placement in a Windows Phone prime-time TV ad in the U.S. The contest, called...

This blog post was authored by Erik Reitan, a programming writer on the Windows Phone developer content team. - Adam The Microsoft Media Platform team has recently released the 1.1 version of the Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 . This...

We’ve been talking a lot recently about what it will take to be one of the 64 winners of the Windows Phone Next App Star *contest to advance to the voting rounds, where the winning app will get the chance to be featured in a Windows Phone primetime TV...

We often hear from developers that they are looking for the next great app idea. They know how to build apps but just haven’t found the right thing to work on. So if you can't design your way out of a paper bag but have great development skills...

Last week, Microsoft launched modern.IE , a free set of tools and resources to help web developers ensure that their sites work beautifully across versions of Internet Explorer as well as other modern browsers. Our goal is to help web developers spend...

I wanted to call to your attention that Windows Phone 8 sales are beginning to ramp up in China and describe the huge reach and monetization opportunity this represents to the Windows Phone developer community. A wide array of Windows Phone 8 devices...

This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam This is Part 1 of a two part series. Part 1 gives you a deeper understanding of the standard pattern for localizing a Windows Phone 8 XAML app along...