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
Category: Windows Phone 8
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2(2012.2)–Final Released
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
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
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
Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.3 for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps
Coding4Fun team has released a new updates for their Windows Phone and Windows 8 controls. There are some interesting controls available for free through codeplex.com. Coding4Fun team are major contributors to .NET community including Channel9 video series etc. They always brings up innovation in whatever they do, including set of Kinect based tutorials and sample… Continue reading
Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012–for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps
Multilingual App toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 helps the windows Phone and Windows store app developers to integrate Multi lingual/localization capability in your applications. This extension for Visual Studio 2012 helps you localize your Windows Store and Windows Phone apps with translation support, translation file management, and editor tools. Download Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual… Continue reading
Microsoft Media Platform – Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 updated to version 1.1
Microsoft Media platform team has recently updated the “Media Player Framework” for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to version 1.1, which includes few enhancements and fixes. “Media Player Framework” helps you in building media applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The player framework contains an open source framework available for Silverlight, HTML5… Continue reading
Upcoming Webinars and Trainings on Microsoft Technologies(Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure, HTML5) – Feb 2013
Jump Start – February 19: Building Web Apps with ASP.NET (February 19) An accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 team-taught by Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway. Windows Azure Hands-on Labs Online Training (February 20) Learn how to connect a Paas application to an Iaas application. Matt Hester… Continue reading
Windows Phone 8–Application Model & Fast Application Resume feature
Windows Phone 8 has a new feature introduced called as ‘Fast Application Resume’, which allows the Windows Phone 8 OS to launch the application from suspended to running quickly. You feel like toggling between multiple apps with out much delay comparing to Windows Phone 7.x platform. With Windows Phone 7.5, OS was allowed to move… Continue reading
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 ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available… Continue reading