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Nokia introduces Lumia 620 Windows Phone 8
Yesterday, Nokia had announced the Nokia Lumia 620 powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.
Nokia Lumia 620 comes in 7 different color like lime green, orange, magenta, yellow, cyan, white and black and is said to be one of the most affordable Windows Phone 8 device.
The Nokia Lumia will be available Read More →
Native Screenshot feature in Windows Phone 8
In one of my previous blog posts, I wrote about
The ability to take the screenshot of the screen in the device was one of the most wanted feature especially among the bloggers.
Now, the Windows Phone 8 includes this feature Read More →
Live SDK for .NET and Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Released
Microsoft has announced the release of the new Live SDK for .NET, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 which is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Centre.
What is Live SDK?
Live SDK includes the set of API's and controls that enables the developers access to the SkyDrive, Read More →Player Framework v1.0 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone
The Player Framework for Windows 8 v1.0 is released and is now available for download from codeplex. The version 1.0 of Player Framework is a stable release after the 7 previews of the Player Framework.
What is Player Framework?
Player Framework is an open source component that is part of the Microsoft Read More →LINQ to Twitter now supports Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
The LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.1.2 was released and is now available for download from codeplex.
What is LINQ to Twitter?
LINQ to Twitter is a popular LINQ provider for the Twitter service. It is an open source project and lets the developers use LINQ syntax for querying and interacting with the Read More →What is Property Value Inheritance – XAML ?
When you created a new Windows Phone App , you would have noticed the following in the MainPage.XAML's PhoneApplicationPage element .
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
The above sample code is an example of the Property Value Inheritance which indicates the default appearance of the child elements of the page Read More → Microsoft announces GenerationApp.com for Windows 8 and Windows Phone App developers
Microsoft has launched the website GenerationApp.com for the developers who are interested in developing Windows Phone Apps and Windows 8 Apps.
The GenerationApp.com offers guidance for the developers to develop and launch your Windows Phone or Windows 8 App in 30 days.
"Start with an idea. Code that idea. Then Read More →
Windows Phone 8 Start Screen on My Nokia Lumia 710
Recently, Microsoft had announced some interesting features of Windows Phone 8 that will be released later this year.
If you are one of the existing Windows Phone user and can't wait to try the new Windows Phone 8 start screen, there is an app that lets you try the Read More →
Project Hawaii SDK for Windows Phone
Project Hawaii is a Microsoft Research Project by Gleb Krivosheev, Philip Fawcett, Ronnie Chaiken, Arjmand Samuel, Jitu Padhye, Alec Wolman, Victor Bahl, Casper Liu, Jun He, Li Zhao, Hua Li, Xin Peng.
The Project Hawaii enables the developers to develop cloud enhanced Windows Phone applications.
The Project Hawaii SDK can be downloaded Read More →
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 announced
Yesterday, Microsoft had officially announced Windows Phone 8 that has some interesting set of features.
It was also announced that the existing Windows Phone devices running Windows Phone 7.X will not receive the Windows Phone 8 update .Instead these Phones will get an update called "Windows Phone 7.8".
- Windows Phone 8 will Read More →
SyncFusion’s Metro Studio 1 with 600 Metro style Icons
Metro Studio 1 allows you to create Icons for Metro apps (Windows Phone, and Windows 8).
These icons can be used across all the .NET applications like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WPF etc.
Syncfusion Metro Studio has a collection of nearly 600 Metro-style icons.
Icons here come as vector based and enable you Read More →
Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers
The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily.
You can download the trial version of RadControls for Windows Phone here
If you want to win a copy of the RadControls for Windows Phone , Check Read More →
Windows Phone and PhoneGap Series – Article #1 to #10
PhoneGap is a open source mobile development framework that enables the developers to build Mobile Apps using JavaScript and HTML5 .
Now , the PhoneGap officially supports Windows Phone and in this article , i share the links to the first few articles in the Windows Phone and PhoneGap Series @ Read More →
Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.0 released
A new version of Coding4Fun Toolkit with the version number v1.5.0 is released and is available for download from codeplex website .
What is Coding4Fun Toolkit ?
Coding4Fun is one of the free and popular projects that offers additional controls for Windows Phone Development . Some of these controls Read More →
UI Stencils and my Share Contacts Windows Phone App
For the last few hours , i have been using the UI Stencils Windows Phone 7 Stencil Kit to mock-up ideas for my Windows Phone App ( ShareContacts ) and infact having good time using it .
This reminds me of Read More →
PhoneGap 1.3 with full Windows Phone 7 support released
The PhoneGap Team has announced the release of PhoneGap 1.3 that brings some significant progress in BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 Support for building Phone applications using HTML5 and JavaScript.
Good news for the Windows Phone Developers who can now get access to the following
- PhoneGap API
- Getting Started Guide
- Update Read More →
Custom Themes for Windows Phone
Every Windows Phone users know that you cannot set the Custom Themes for Windows Phone 7 . All that you can do is change its accent color or change the Theme ( Dark or Light ) .
Here's an opportunity for the users with Developer Unlocked device Read More →
How to write data to a file in Isolated Storage in Windows Phone ?
An Windows Phone Application might need to store and access data .
One of the ways to store the data is the Isolated Storage .
An Windows Phone Application cannot access the data stored by another Windows Phone Application and hence the name "Isolated" .
A typical use of the Isolated Storage will Read More →
How to read data from a text file in Isolated Storage in Windows Phone ?
In my previous blog post , i explained How to write data to a file in Isolated Storage in Windows Phone ?
In this blog post , will show you How to read data from a text file in Isolated Storage in Windows Phone that was written to the Read More →