Windows Phone came through long way after it’s initial release on Oct 21st 2010. Windows Phone 7.5 update release called as “MANGO” brought lots of improvements including Multi tasking capabilities etc. With the introduction of multi-tasking ( it is not true multi tasking, but an efficient application switching which ensures that only one application will […]
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WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps RC
The WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps installer extends the Add Service Reference experience with client-side OData support for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2012. The tooling will add references to NuGet packages capable of consuming OData services up to v3. Updated runtime assemblies will be made available through the normal NuGet […]
Read more →Windows Phone Marketplace is now Windows Phone Store
Welcome to new Windows Phone Store!! Today Windows Phone team has announced the changes to Windows Phone Marketplace and this has been officially renamed to “Windows Phone Store”. Read the Windows Phone team announcement blog. Here is how the new phone store will look like the shiny new default home page Find my phone Just […]
Read more →Windows Phone Power Tools–a must have extension for all Windows Phone developers
The Windows Phone Power Tools are a natural extension to the developer tools that come with the Windows Phone SDK. Instead of allowing you to only install developer xaps the Power Tools let you test update scenarios by allowing you to update an existing developer app. Instead of having to step through the IsolatedStorage file […]
Read more →Windows Phone store expands to 37 new countries, adds universal search, and supports installing apps via SD card
Microsoft Windows Phone team announced the availability of Windows Phone web store to new 37 countries. It is pretty fast that Microsoft is expanding its reachability, now consumers from most of the countries from all over the world have the accessibility to Windows Phone store. The new markets are: Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, […]
Read more →HTML5 – Introduction to HTML5Shiv for Internet Explorer 6/7/8
HTML5Shiv is a JavaScript workaround, discovered by Sjoerd Visscher, to enable support styling of HTML5 elements in versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9.0, which do not allow unknown elements to be styled without JavaScript. Means your CSS classes and attributes will not be applied to the particular HTML5 specific display element, until and […]
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