Tag: Windows phone

  • 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…

  • Tips for localizing Windows Phone apps – Part 2

    This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. – Adam As part 2 of this two-part series, this post focuses on the great new Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) v1.2 offered by the Windows International team. This Windows 8 tool now supports Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone…

  • 5 Steps to Containerize your Enterprise Mobile Apps

    Just in case you haven’t noticed lately, the BYOD Juggernaut appears to be stumbling in the security department.  It’s time to get your mobile enterprise house in order and containerize your apps to create islands of security on potentially insecure mobile devices. We’ve seen buggy mobile operating system updates that allow users to bypass lock screens, public…

  • Formation Design d’applications Windows 8 & Windows Phone

    Du designer au développeur Avec l’arrivée de Windows 8, de Windows Phone 8 et de tous les terminaux, le design est au cœur du développement applicatif. Il doit être considéré comme une caractéristique intégrée au cycle de vie de la réalisation de votre application. Lors de cette matinée consacrée exclusivement au design d’applications, nous vous…

  • Windows Phone 8 Application Lifecycle

    Rob TiffanyDuring this video, Andy Wigley and I focus on key concepts like the Windows Phone 8 program lifecycle. You’ll learn about things like Launching and Closing, Deactivating and Activating, Dormant and Tombstoned applications and the Simulation Dashboard. Next, we discuss Idle Detection on Windows Phone and Detecting Obscured events, Fast Application Resume, Lifecycle design,…

  • Files and Storage on Windows Phone 8

    Rob TiffanyThis video covers new storage concepts for Windows Phone 8. The concepts covered in this video include accessing the Installation folder or the Local folder using the Windows Phone Runtime Windows.Storage APIs. Additionally, Andy and I focus…

  • Windows Phone 8: Evolution of the Runtime and Application Compatibility

    Long time back at the wake of the release of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) I posted about the Windows Phone 7 series programming model. I also published how .NET Compact framework powered the applications on WP7. Further simplifying the block diagram, we can think of the entire WP7 application system as follows As with most…

  • Touring the Windows Phone 8 Dev Center

    In addition to launching Windows Phone 8 and our new developer platform this week, we also refreshed the Dev Center, which is now ready for Windows Phone 8 app submissions. In case you haven’t had a chance to look around yet, I’ll briefly walk you through some of the highlights and tell you how you…

  • How to watch our Windows Phone 8 event

    Curious what’s going to happen Monday at our press event in San Francisco? Tune into the webcast and find out. You can watch the live stream, which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Pacific, on either the Microsoft News Center or our Facebook page, where you can also see what people are tweeting about…

  • Tips for using ads in your Windows Phone apps

    Windows Phone developers have three basic ways to make money from their apps: paid app sales, mobile advertising, and in-app purchases (coming in Windows Phone 8). Last month I wrote about my approach to paid apps, and how to take advantage of the Windows Phone Dev Center’s new country-by-country pricing and analysis features. Today I’ll…