Category: Windows Phone

Installing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX

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Typically I used to try latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 8.0 development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 8.1 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V cannot be installed:… Continue reading

Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322–Released

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Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update. This update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 adds four new emulator images to an existing installation of Windows Phone SDK 8.0. This update requires Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. Using this update, you can test how your apps will run on devices that have build 8.0.10322… Continue reading

Windows Phone 8.0 GDR2–Update–What you can expect

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Microsoft has updated the windows phone 8 update history page leaving details of features or enhancements included in upcoming update for Windows Phone 8 Platform.  As per Microsoft the version number of this update build would be 8.0.10327.77 or 8.0.10328.78 (version number is specific to certain phone model) One interesting feature included among is ‘FM… Continue reading

Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 Preview Now Available

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Microsoft has released the preview version of upcoming Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 DOWNLOAD: Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 Preview . Read more about this release from Somasekhar’s blog

Visual Studio 2012 Update 3–Released

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Microsoft has released the final of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3.  This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012. For information about the latest update, see Visual Studio Updates and the Visual Studio Update KB Article. DOWNLOAD: Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 (Online Installer) Also… Continue reading

Windows Phone Toolkit–June 2013–Release – v4.2013.06.11

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Windows Phone team has released the latest update(v 4.2013.06.11) for Windows Phone Toolkit available through NuGet. Get it as an NuGet package:  https://nuget.org/packages/WPtoolkit/4.2013.06.11 Find what’s new in Release Notes: https://phone.codeplex.com/releases/view/106971

Dear Windows Phone users – “Easy Banking IN” is no more.. Rest in Peace..

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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… Continue reading

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2(2012.2)–Final Released

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Microsoft has released the final version of the Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2. You can get more details on release from Somasekhar’s blog: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available. Somasekhar is VP of Developer Division at Microsoft. For information about the latest update, see Visual Studio Updates. Download Visual Studio 2012 Update 2… Continue reading

Windows Phone devices for Testing– available FREE Online- by Nokia Developer program

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We all are looking for multiple Windows Phone devices to test our applications. Here is the good news, Nokia came up with a solution for all Nokia Developer program members – “Nokia Developer Remote Drive Access(RDA)” program, through which you can remotely allocate and use a Windows Phone devices for testing purposes. Interesting right?. It… Continue reading

Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store apps

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Microsoft has released a Visual Studio 3D Starter kit sample project which would essentially help the developers to create 3D Games or apps using Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone 8.0 SDK or Windows SDK. [Image Courtesy: Microsoft] [Quoting from Visual Studio Code gallery and official blog] This sample contains the starting point for a… Continue reading

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