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  • Declaring your DataContext in markup

    This blog post was authored by Steve White, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone team. – Adam Setting the DataContext property to a view model instance in your page markup can increase the “designability” of your pages in Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio. In this post I explain why, and demonstrate…

  • Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2

    This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team. – Adam Testing your app throughout the development process can help you create a really great Windows Phone app. Testing helps ensure that your app is effectively represented in the Windows Phone Store as an app…

  • Mutualisation des développements avec VS 2012 – Cellenza Blog

    Jonathan Pamphile, consultant chez Cellenza, vous présente la mutualisation des développements sous Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 avec Visual Studio 2012 au travers d’un Webcast diffusé dans l’émission Bon App ! Windows 8 et Windows Phone 8 Les points suivants sont notamment abordés : Utilisation du pattern Model-View-ViewModel Utilisation des Portable Class Libraries Utilisation de…

  • Windows Phone et la sécurité

    De plus en plus de personnes profitent des fonctionnalités d’un smartphone en entreprise et ces mêmes entreprises ont de plus en plus besoin de ses outils pour améliorer la satisfaction, le confort et la productivité de leurs employés. Cependant elles ne sont pas toujours structurées pour accueillir au sein de leur système d’information ces nouveaux…

  • More Dev Center features – we’re listening

    Hi everybody! I’m Rushmi Malaviarachchi, lead program manager for the Windows Phone Dev Center. I work on the engineering team that’s responsible for the Dev Center website, the Dev Center app, and the app ingestion system that gets your apps into the Windows Phone Store. I’ll be posting here on a regular basis to share…

  • Lister les applications installées de l’auteur sur le téléphone, les lancer, etc…

    Comme souvent, je me balade sur  MSDN à la recherche d’un morceau de l’API pas encore explorée. Ce soir, à force de cliquer sur des liens, je suis tombé sur une petite pépite assez intéressante donc autant la partager donc ! Saviez-vous que depuis Windows Phone 8, il est possible de récupérer la liste de…

  • App to App Communication in Windows Phone 8

    Learn all about app to app communication in Windows Phone 8. In this video, Andy and Rob demonstrate app to app communication in Windows Phone 8. Topics such as auto-launching with File and Protocol Associations (URI), launching apps to handle particular File Types, and launching one app from another are covered. Be sure to check…

  • Migrating ANIDs to Windows Phone 8

    This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. – Adam ANID and ANID2 ANID (anonymous ID) and ANID2 are hashed representations of the Microsoft account the user has entered on the device. ANID and ANID2 refer to the string values returned by UserExtendedProperties.GetValue(“ANID”) and UserExtendedProperties.GetValue(“ANID2”).…

  • Microsoft Adds Android Support To Windows Azure Mobile Services

    Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Mobile Services, a cloud backend for mobile applications. But at the time, it only supported Windows 8, and the team then added iOS and Windows Phone 8 support a short while later. Starting today, Android users can also connect their apps to Azure Mobile Services and use the platform to…

  • AirWatch Gets $200 Million Series A Funding

    Mobile device management startup AirWatch has raised a massive series A round of $200 million, led by Insight Venture Partners. The startup competes with others such as Good Technology and SAP’s Afaria in the mobile device management space. This rides the current “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend, where companies are supporting employee-owned devices such…