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Wordament – First iPhone game with Xbox Live achievements
Wordament is one of my favourite game in Windows Phone and Windows 8. The game is so addictive that you end up playing levels without even getting to know how the time passed by.
Now, Wordament is available for another platform too. Yes, it's the iPhone.
What is Wordament?
Wordament is a popular Read More →
Win Xbox, Windows Phone, Windows 8 tablets with the Roadies Xplorer game
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, one of the leading Web Browser with deep native HTML5 support brings you the ultimate and adrenaline rushing game Roadies Xplorer.
Roadies Xplorer will come alive in a staged manner, with the level already live, the next levels will be coming out after that. Start the action with 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 →Microsoft’s Windows Phone Launch in India and Devices demo
Couple of days back, Microsoft had launched the new Windows Phone 8 operating system and also the Windows Phone SDK 8.0.
I had the opportunity to attend the Windows Phone 8 India launch event that was held on October 30, 2012 at "The Park Hotel", New Delhi.
The event had Vineet Durani, 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 → Player Framework for Windows 8 (Preview 6) Released
Few days back, the Player Framework for Windows 8 - Preview 6 was released which is now available for download from codeplex
What is Player Framework?
Player Framework for Windows 8 is an open source and robust video player framework for HTML5, Silverlight, and Windows Phone etc. Now, the Player Framework for Read More →Json.NET 4.5 Release 9 Released
The new version of the Json.NET (v4.5 Release 9) is out and includes some bug fixes and new feature like JsonValueConverter.
What is Json.NET?
Json.NET is one of the popular and open source high performance JSON framework for .NET framework and supports .NET 2.0 TO .NET 4.0 as well as Silverlight, Windows 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 →
Microsoft’s I unlock Joy is back
After the success of the first edition of "I unlock Joy" campaign last year, Microsoft has again announced the launch of the 2nd Phase or edition of the "I unlock Joy" campaign.
Last year I had submitted few Windows Phone Apps in the Windows Marketplace and received a brand new Windows 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 →
Bangalore DotNet User Group (BDotNet) UG meet with Atley Hunter
Atley Hunter - a Microsoft MVP in Windows Phone Development and Telerik Insider will be presenting few interesting topics on Windows Phone during the Bangalore DotNet User Group (BDotNet) UG meet to be held on April 28 , 2012 from 10.30 am at Microsoft Corporation , Signature Building , 4th 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 →
First major Windows Phone Developer Conference WPDevCon @ San Francisco, CA
BZ Media is organising the its Windows Phone Developer Conference WPDevCon which is said to be one of the first major independent event for software engineers and developers focussed on the Windows Phone Development .
WPDevCon - The Windows Phone Developer Conference is schedules to be held 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 →
