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… Continue reading
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Windows Phone 7.5[MANGO] and Windows Phone 7.1 OS
Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7.5 on Sept 27th 2011. The Operating system itself been initially been called as “Windows Phone 7.5” code named as “Windows Phone MANGO”. The underlying operating system version is Windows Phone 7.1, even though it is been marketed as “Windows Phone 7.5”. There is been lots of confusion among people… Continue reading
Windows Phone "Tango" to be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 “Refresh” and Windows Phone 8 for the future
Microsoft’s announced upcoming Windows Phone OS code named as Windows Phone “Tango” to be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh. This is inline with Microsoft’s cloud feature specific Windows Phone OS called as Windows Phone “Apollo” or Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 7 “Tango” a.k.a Windows Phone 7.5 REFRESH The upcoming Windows Phone update… Continue reading
Introducing Monocross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono
I am evaluating different cross platform mobile development solutions. This is just a quick introduction to a framework I came across. What is cross platform mobile applications? A mobile application developed in such a way that it will work or run on most of the mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc.… Continue reading
Mobile Application Development
Mobile Applications are rapidly developing segment in the global mobile sector. Developing mobile applications targeting different mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Bada(Samsung’s Proprietary OS) is the trend setter now. Quoting from Wikipedia Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Updated to Final
Microsoft has released final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 which includes the support for Windows 8 and 256 MB devices for debugging. (previously I blogged about the release of CTP version of the same here) Windows Phone… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update – CTP
Microsoft has released an update for Windows Phone SDK tagged as “Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update“. As per microsoft release notes, the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update provides developers with additional capabilities to develop and test applications for Windows Phone 7.5 Devices with 256MB The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update provides additional functionality to the… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Final (RTW)
Microsoft has released final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Mango). The Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 provides you with all of the tools that you need to develop applications and games for both Windows Phone 7.0 and Windows Phone 7.5 devices. Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Final (RTW) Web Installer / Standalone… Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 Mango update goes to RTM (released to Manufacture)
Microsoft’s latest release for Windows Phone is out, long awaited with so many new features, Windows Phone 7.1 a.k.a MANGO. Officially Windows Phone team has signed-off the RTM build for Windows Phone 7 MANGO. The Mango update for current Windows Phone handsets will be ready this fall, and will come pre-installed on new Windows Phones.… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 : installation steps
Came across a nice blog by Dhanunjay Kumar (MVP) to guide you through nice installation steps for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 Please read through blog, it is really informative. Thanks Dhanunjay for such a nice article..