Inside Windows Phone 73: Peter Torr on Targeting Multiple Resolutions
At Build 2014 we announced the ability to build universal app projects in Visual Studio that can be leveraged to easily deliver apps for both Windows Phone and Windows PC/Laptop/Tablet. This new...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 74: Thomas Fennel on the Windows Notification Platform
The most compelling mobile apps take advantage of notification services in order to dynamically update based on external criteria. On Windows Phone, Live Tiles are perhaps one of the most distinct...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 75: Tim Heuer on Windows Runtime XAML
This week, Lead Program Manager Tim Heuer joined us to talk about all the announcements from Build 2014 with regard to Windows Runtime XAML, (as well as the unified Windows platform in general). As you...
View ArticleJoin us at a //Publish/ Event
The last mile of finishing an app can be the most trying for developers. This week on May 16-17, Microsoft and community experts are teaming up to produce a global event taking place in 60 cities...
View ArticleDevelopers: Make your Tiles Transparent for Windows Phone 8.1
As you have likely seen by now, Windows Phone 8.1 is full of many amazing new features, but perhaps one of the most visually striking is the new Start Background feature, which allows people to set...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 76: Matt Hidinger on Live Tiles in Windows 8.1
Matt Hidinger, Program Manager for the Live Tile Platform on Windows recently chatted with me about the new features of Live Tiles in Windows and Windows Phone, and What Developers Need To Know (TM)....
View ArticleNew Windows app development training resources now available
We’ve recently released a few outstanding new resources for those looking to build apps for Windows, so I wanted to make sure you have all the latest information so you can get started. Here are the...
View ArticleIntroduction to universal Windows apps in Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1
This post was written by Microsoft MVP Pavel Yosifovich. —– This week we’re featuring guest blog posts from some of the members of our Microsoft developer MVP program. Microsoft MVPs are passionate,...
View ArticleWould you like double cheese with that? Adding Windows tablet goodness to...
This post was written by Microsoft MVP Rob Miles. —– This week we’re featuring guest blog posts from some of the members of our Microsoft developer MVP program. Microsoft MVPs are passionate, expert...
View ArticleMerging the Code-Base: Combining Existing Windows Store and Phone Apps into...
This post was written by Microsoft MVP Can Bilgin. —– This week we’re featuring guest blog posts from some of the members of our Microsoft developer MVP program. Microsoft MVPs are passionate, expert...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform: Common App Developer Design Considerations
Dave Crawford, an experienced graphic design professional, has spent the last several years driving high quality design into some of the most popular Windows apps. In this episode of Inside Windows...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform: Maximize ad revenue with Windows Ad Mediator Service...
As announced last week, the Windows Ad Mediator Service and Control is now available, designed to help developers greatly improve advertising revenue. I sat down with Bernardo Zamora, Director of...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform – Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries
In this episode of Inside Windows Platform, we talked with Ivan Stojiljkovic, the Dev Lead of the OCR team at Microsoft. OCR is acompelling developer scenario which can empower all sorts of useful...
View ArticleBring your Windows Phone Silverlight apps to Windows Runtime XAML; prepare...
With the release of Windows Phone 8.1 last year, we introduced the concept of universal Windows apps. Windows 10 will build on our commitment to provide a common Windows platform with one API layer...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform – How to Add Push Notifications to Your App
Adding push notifications is simple to do, using Azure Mobile Services. In this video, Yavor Georgiev walks through the easy four step process involved in setting it up. Building and deploying a server...
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