Tag: Developing Apps

  • TechEd North America 2013 Summary

    We were really excited to be at TechEd North America 2013 this week, where we participated in 15 deep, technical sessions all about Windows Phone for IT pros and enterprise developers. Windows Phone 8 is gaining enormous traction in the enterprise and this was evident in the excitement and enthusiasm of the thousands of TechEd…

  • 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…

  • 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”).…

  • Tips for Localizing Windows Phone 8 XAML Apps – Part1

    This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. – Adam This is Part 1 of a two part series. Part 1 gives you a deeper understanding of the standard pattern for localizing a Windows Phone 8 XAML app along with a lesson learned or two. In Part…

  • Building High Performance Windows Phone Apps

    This blog post was authored by Mini Nair, a program manager on the Visual Studio team. – Jonathan Mobile phone users expect the apps running on their phones to perform well at all times and be of super quality. A slow startup or a jerky UI is an absolute no. If playing a game or watching…

  • 8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps

    As part of the “App to the future” challenge (see details at the end of the post) we’ve conducted Lightning Design Review sessions for a few weeks, and one thing struck me as I was watching: review after review, I could clearly identify some recurring patterns. So, I asked Senior Interactive Designer, Lincoln Anderson, who hosts the…

  • Network Monitoring for Windows Phone Apps

    This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. – Jonathan Consumers and businesses are increasingly becoming dependent on the continuous connection of smartphones to networks. However, there is a side effect that stems from such pervasive network connectivity, which is often termed as bill shock…

  • Updating your Windows Phone Location code to use WinRT

    This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team. – Adam In this post I describe how you can optionally modify your Windows Phone 7 geolocation code to use the new Windows Runtime (WinRT) Geolocation APIs in Windows Phone 8. Modifying your code to use the…

  • Windows Phone Toolkit overview

    The Toolkit team is proud to announce the release of the Windows Phone 8 version of the Windows Phone Toolkit. Here’s what’s new: New toolkit download from CodePlex Installation exclusively through NuGet (deprecated .msi download file) Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 toolkits in a single package New controls and features Bug fixesFor those…