Download – Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

Hands on Labs for the Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform. The hands on labs in this package immerse you in Windows Phone 8 development, by walking you building a set of applications that demonstrate many of the most compelling new features for developers in Windows Phone 8 DOWNLOAD: Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

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Windows Phone Toolkit–October 2012 with WP8 SDK support

Windows Phone Toolkit is an additional set of controls for Windows Phone Development released by Microsoft Windows Phone developer platform team through Codeplex.com.  Windows Phone Toolkit provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. Windows Phone Toolkit – October 2012 includes additional support for using the […]

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Windows Phone Toolkit – September 2012

Recently new update for Windows Phone Toolkit – September 2012 has been released. As per the release notes here are the changes or features included as part of this release New Features New control CustomMessageBox New control Rating New transition effects Updated control templates to more closely match the 1st party experience Shortened the product […]

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Windows Phone 7.8 Feature set Leaked

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 […]

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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 […]

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown

Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called β€˜Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available […]

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