MoqaLate – Mocking Framework for Windows Phone
MoqaLate – Mocking Framework for Windows Phone MoqaLate is a free Mocking Framework for Windows Phone and is available for download from CodePlex. MoqaLate is currently in Alpha, but is usable now. MoqaLate generates mocks from any interfaces. Read more about MoqaLate – Mocking Framework for Windows Phone here
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5 Analytics API for Windows Phone Apps
5 Analytics API for Windows Phone Apps Do you want to keep track of the App statistics, analyze the most frequently used pages or features in your Windows Phone App ? If yes, below are 5 different Analytics API for Windows Phone Apps. 1. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Microsoft Silverlight [...]
Categories: WP News Tags: Analytics API, How to, tips, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8
Download free eBook – Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud
Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud book is a PDF version of the online guidance “Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud” by Microsoft Patterns & Practices team. The book is written by David Britch Francis Cheung Adam Kinney [...]
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Nokia Lumia 800 Specification
Its time for the Nokia’s first device powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone . Its called Nokia Lumia 800 and runs Windows Phone 7.5 ( Mango ) Operating System . The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with 1.4 Ghz processor with 3.7 inch TFT touchscreen with AMOLED capacitive screen . The Nokia [...]
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Download Sample code for Mars Invasion Windows Phone game
The Sample code for Mars Invasion Windows Phone game is now available for download in the Code.MSDN site . The Sample code for Mars Invasion Windows Phone game provides you a step by step walkthrough for developing the simple 2D game using XNA Game Studio 4.0 . Download Sample code for [...]
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Free Windows Phone for Students , Developers and Bloggers via ‘I unlock Joy’ Programme
Here’s an interesting news for the students , Developers and Bloggers in india who wish to own a Windows Phone … During a meeting at Microsoft Campus , Bangalore that took place yesterday , Microsoft announced the ‘I unlock Joy’ programme for the Developers and Bloggers for Windows Phone in [...]
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Fast Track to the Mobile App Windows Phone Contest
Core77, Inc. and Microsoft is organising an contest for the Windows Phone Designers called “Fast Track to the Mobile App Windows Phone Contest” . Fast Track to the Mobile App is a App Design competition that challenges the participants to design and mockup conceptual business apps for the Windows Phone [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: contest, Fast Track, Microsoft, Windows Phone
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3.1 Released
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3.1 is now released and available for download in the codeplex site The current version 1.3.1 download size is about 52445KB and includes some of the following fixes Support for Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW 2 New Samples Tweet Your Blobs and CRUD SQL [...]
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Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library is now available for Download
The Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library is now available for Download in the CodePlex site The Skyedrive WP7 Version 1.0 file download size is about 47KB and lets you Browse the folder Download Files Know more about Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library and Download here via WindowsPhoneRocks.com
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Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7
Andreas Hammar in his blog write about the Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7 . Andreas provides an overview of the Implicit Syles which is available in Windows Phone 7.1 Mango which is Silverlight 4 based . In the end of the post , Andreas provides a simple [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Implicit STyles, News, Windows Phone 7
A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background
Joost van Schaik in his blog write about the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background . Joost explains provides a sample sourcecode with the basic behaviour using safe event detachment pattern for behaviors . The sourcecode can also be downloaded and Joost is planning [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: BackGround, Camera, Windows Phone 7
5 reasons your Smartphone must be a Windows Mango phone
In this week’s episode of Tech Toyz , Ankit Vengurlekar talks about the Microsoft’s new Mobile operating system ( Windows Phone 7 Mango ) . Ankit Vengurlekar provides 5 top reasons and infact more than 5 for considering Windows Phone Mango … Ankit also provides a demo of some the [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Demo, Mango, Moneycontrol.com, Windows Phone
GART – The Geo AR (Augmented Reality) Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.1
Greg Duncan in the Channel9 MSDN website write about the GART – The Geo AR (Augmented Reality) Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.1 ( Mango ) . “GART was created to help people quickly and easily build Augmented Reality applications for Windows Phone. This kit is different from other AR kits [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Augumented Reality, GART, Windows Phone
More guidance and tool for porting iPhone & Android apps to Windows Phone
JC Cimetiere in the WIndows Phone Team Blog provides an overview of the guidance and tools that can help the iPhone and Android Developers to port their Apps to Windows Phone . JC Cimetiere talks about the samples that are avaialble for Android and iPhone that includes In-App Advertisements Geo-Location [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone
Windows Phone 7 Guides for IT Professionals
Microsoft has published the Windows Phone 7 Guides for IT Professionals which is now available for Download from the Microsoft Download Center “The Windows Phone 7 Guides for IT Professionals is a series of articles intended to help you evaluate how to integrate and support Windows Phone 7 in your [...]
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Windows Phone wins IDEA People’s Choice Award
Microsoft’s Windows Phone has won IDEA 2011 people’s choice award along with 2 other awards . Windows Phone also includes other 2 awards for Interaction and best in the show . The Windows Phone Design Team thanked everyone who voted in Twitter The Metro UI is definitely getting more recognition [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Award, IDEA, Windows Phone, WP7
Windows Phone 7 – Windows Phone Sprinkler System , MegaRamp and Me
Below are the latest videos from the Windows Phone Me Video series . The video provides a look in to the MegaRamp Event Team and highlights how the people here use Windows Phone to film skaters and update and share word documents and share scorecards in realtime . httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkI0SbqwA8 In [...]
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HTC Mozart 7 , a Windows Phone 7 for just Rs 16499
Beleive it or not , the HTC Mozart 7 is now only Rs 16,499 as per the Flipkart site . It was the same mobile that i got few months back for 26,000 + . The HTC Mozart 7 has a camera of 8MP with Xenon Flash , 8GB Internal [...]
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MCPD for Windows Phone Developers
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certification (MCPD) for Windows Phone Developers which helps to validate the candidate\’s knowledge and skills on designing and developing Applications for the Windows Phone Platform. via MCPD for Windows Phone Developers.
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: developers, MCPD, Windows Phone, WP7
Photo Contest from Windows Phone UK
The Microsoft’s Windows Phone UK is currently running a photography contest on Facebook . To participate , the participant should upload their best summer photos to the competition page in facebook . The photographers submitting the three most popular photos determined by votes will have a chance to win Windows [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: photo contest, Windows Phone
Install Mango Beta Update on your Windows Phone Retail Device
Just found this forum thread in XDA developers where files necessary to update your Windows Phone to Windows Phone Mango Beta have been uploaded . There is also a pdf file that provides instruction on how to install . To be frank , i am staying away from it . [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Developer, Device, Mango, retail, Update, Windows Phone
Only Windows Phone Serious Developers to get Mango Developer Hansets
Microsoft is planning to make the “Windows Phone Mango” developer devices available early next week . It is also mentioned that these handsets will be given out in several rounds … But wait a minute . NOt all developers will be given one . Brandon Watson , Microsoft’s Director of [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Developer Devices, Mango, Microsoft, Windows Phone
Microsoft shows new Music and Video Hub for Windows Phone 7
With the next big update version Mango is still in the making , Microsoft has revealed the features of Windows Phone 7.1 Mango features through its Blo posts . The new feature in this line is the new Music and Video Hub . According to the Windows Phone Blog , [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Hub, Mango, Microsoft, Music, Video, Windows Phone
Channel 9 – Inside the Mango Developer Tools
Here’s few video where Brandon Watson , Microsoft Channel 9 team interviews few people behind the release of Windows Phone Mango ( Mango ) Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform (With Andrew Clinick ) Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search ( With Jared Brown ) Inside the Mango Developer [...]
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Windows Phone 7 App Smackdown Competition
Here’s a new Windows Phone 7 Competition where developers developing a WP7 App stand a chance to win a Samsunung Omnia 7 . To participate , all that you need is to build a WP7 App and upload .XAP file on or before Friday ( June 17 , 2011 ) [...]
Categories: Announcement, Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: contest, Windows Phone 7
Hidden features of Windows Phone Mango Emulator revealed
Last week , Microsoft had released the developer tools beta for the new Mango Update for Windows Phone 7 and here comes a post from WinPhone7.info which demonstrates several new items on emulator that were not discussed earlier like MP3 Audio Playback that includes controls for repeat and shuffle New Button [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: features, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7
WP7 App – Ninja Birds
Ninja Birds is a free Windows Phone 7 game created by DarkWheat Games . You are the Ninja Bunny battling your way through the 16 levels saving the carrots from invading Ninja Birds . Some of the features of the App includes Tilt and touch controls witha really simple interface [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Ninja Birds, Zune
Visual Basic is now integrated in Windows Phone 7.1 Beta(Mango) SDK
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.1 Beta SDK that was released a few days back has some good news for the Visual Basic developers . Visual Basic is now fully integrated in Visual Studio for the WP7 Development with the new Windows Phone 7.1 Mango SDK . The VBTeam states The first [...]
Categories: How To's, Tools, Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Mango, Microsoft, Visual Basic, Windows Phone
Its ST-Ericsson Chips for Windows Phone Devices from Nokia
With the Nokia ‘s Mobile Device running the Windows Phone OS is in the pipeline , it could be possible that some of the device models be powered by silicon from ST-Ericsson . As per the announcement from the Forbes site , Nokia would be using the ST-Ericsson chipset U8500 [...]
Categories: Announcement, Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Kick 4G, Nokia, Samsung Infuse 4G, SoC, ST-Ericsson, U8500, Windows Phone
Launcher 7 – Windows Phone 7 UI on Android
Here’s a Launcher 7 from Timo Kujala which is a Windows Phone 7 style launcher for Android Phones . Custom launchers have already been there for Android Phone and infact there were launchers like the Palm WebOS design and SPB Shell 3D . The Windows Phone 7 which is based [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, Launcher 7, Launcher Pro, Timo Kujala, Windows Phone 7