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Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was launched in Europe, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, Mexico, and the EPAL region in the second half of 2010, and Asia in early 2011. With Windows Phone, Microsoft offers a new user interface with its design language named Metro, integrates the operating system with third party and other Microsoft services, and controls the hardware it runs on.
Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename “Photon”, but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to…
Recently leaked Windows Phone 7.8 feature list indicates some of the interesting features you can expect as part of Windows. Windows Phone 7.8 is an incremental update to existing Windows Phone 7.x platform, as upcoming Windows Phone 8 will not work on existing windows phone 7.x devices, because hardware signature and kernel might change as […]
Read more →Microsoft has released(06/28/2011) BETA2 of their new Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools. The new Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (renamed from WPDT – Windows Phone Developer Tools) can be used to develop Applications for both 7.0 and 7.1 version of Windows Phone OS releases. The Windows Phone SDK includes the following Windows Phone SDK 7.1 […]
Read more →While doing windows phone application programming you will come across some requirements such as: a. “Selecting a contact from contact book” b. “Open up Camera, take a photo and upload or use the photo” c. “Open a link in Web Browser” How you can achieve these typical tasks? Answer is pretty simple Windows Phone SDK […]
Read more →Few months back all of a sudden I came across an Idea, there is no mobile banking reference application in Windows Phone market place. So I thought of putting it together and my idea came alive in one day of work and I published to the marketplace. “Easy Banking IN” was well received by users […]
Read more →With Windows Phone 8 and new Windows Phone store – Microsoft has introduced the support for Manually download the .XAP files and install the application from an SDCard(Memory card). Follow the steps: Step 1: Windows Phone store will have an additional option ‘Download and install manually’ for each application [Similar to the screen shot given […]
Read more →To celebrate the launch of the Lumia 920 and 820 devices, Windows Phone Geek and Nokia are offering awesome prizes for developers in the Lumia Geek 8 Week Challenge. http://windowsphonegeek.com/lumia-geek-8-week-challenge/ Developers can win a trip for 2 to MWC in Barcelona, customized Lumias and their very own demo space at MWC in Barcelona. All developers […]
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