Windows Phone Development–Choosers and Launchers

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 […]

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Windows Phone Development–Developing for 256 MB (low profile) Windows Phone Devices

Microsoft has announced that upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh code named as “Tango” will have low profile 256 MB devices which would make Microsoft’s entry in to mobile market by delivering low cost Windows Phone devices. All existing Windows Phone devices are having 512 MB RAM, considering the mid-range or low entry market Microsoft has […]

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Windows Phone Development–Background Agents in Windows Phone

Windows Phone came through long way after it’s initial release on Oct 21st 2010.  Windows Phone 7.5 update release called as β€œMANGO” 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 […]

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Download Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Final (Online and Offline standalone Installer)

Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing(RTM) for Windows Phone 8 on 29th OCT 2012 and as announced on the sameday – Microsoft has released Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers on 30th OCT 2012. The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is a full-featured development environment to use for building apps and games for Windows Phone […]

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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 […]

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