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by Rich Edmonds
May 23, 2012
Our friends over at Windows Phone Geek, the developer-based community, have announced their new marketplace (link) that caters for developers who requires tools to help them build apps on the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 02, 2012
Elan Feingold, co-founder of Plex, has shared his thoughts on the experience the company has had with development on the platform thus far. Plex recently released the official app for Windows Phone...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 23, 2012
Telerik, the company behind the RadControls suite for Windows Phone Developers, has released an interesting update to their software. The introduced RadHubTile will enable developers to create live...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 10, 2012
Press Play, the game studio behind the Xbox LIVE games Tentacles (our review) and Max & the Magic Marker (our review), has released a beta version of their Unity porting...
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by RogueCode
Mar 07, 2012
Every so often we cover tools that help out developers, but this is in another league. A company called SyncFusion has created a product called Metro Studio 1 which looks to be...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 05, 2012
With the release of the Windows 8 customer preview last week, the Windows Phone team have published an article on the official blog detailing a few issues that occur when running the Windows Phone...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 08, 2012
Yet another step in the right direction has been carried out for multiplayer gaming on Windows Phone. Already available on other platforms, Exit Games have released a free Windows Phone SDK that...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jan 19, 2012
This is a really handy tool for those who enjoy loading XAPs onto developer-unlocked Windows Phones (including ChevronWP7 Labs), which is currently in active development by XDA Developers Forum...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 21, 2011
Geert van der Cruijsen, a Windows Phone development enthusiast, has created a skin switcher which can be used to easily alternate between community created themes when developing apps for the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 14, 2011
Jeff Wilcox, developer of 4th&Mayor and who was behind the Metro design guide, has released a new slick looking Windows Phone emulator theme for developers to install (taking a new chassis mock-...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 06, 2011
We're always pleased to see developer resources pop up around the web that help keep things ticking long. Over at Templarian (Austin Andrews), an icon pack full of superb quality graphics has...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 05, 2011
An interesting book has been released by Sams Publishing, which will be of great value to anyone who's looking at Windows Phone to develop games taking advantage of available technologies and...
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by Rich Edmonds
Oct 11, 2011
Boryana Miloshevska, over at WindowsPhoneGeek, has published an ebook today that covers Silverlight development for Windows Phone 7.5. The book itself contains 246 pages separated into 22 chapters...
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by Rich Edmonds
Oct 07, 2011
This is for all developers and designers out there who strive to produce only the best looking apps for Windows Phone. Jeff Wilcox, developer of 4th...
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by Rich Edmonds
Sep 29, 2011
'Sup developers (and users)? Fancy a service that provides you with the means to get some beta testers on board for your app(s)? Of course you do. Introducing Windows Phone Beta, a brand new...
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by Rich Edmonds
Sep 15, 2011
TouchDevelop (previously known as TouchStudio when released) is a script generation app that allows users to create and run scripts that perform a wide variety of functions. The app has just been...
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by Rich Edmonds
Sep 08, 2011
This is something that will be of interest to the developer side of our readers. There's now a beta version of PhoneGap available that supports Windows Phone Mango. What is PhoneGap you ask? It's...
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by Rich Edmonds
Aug 31, 2011
App.net is a service offered to developers on iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android that helps monetise and distribute applications cross-platform style. Developers are able to use analytics to track...
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by Rich Edmonds
Aug 30, 2011
We've previously covered Telerik's Tasks app that shines as a perfect example of Metro UI implementation and of their RadControl software for Windows Phone 7 (and now Mango too). It's a free app...
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by Daniel Rubino
Aug 23, 2011
For the developers out there, you'll be psyched to know that the release candidate for the Windows Phone SDK is now available.
"The Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 provides you...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jul 06, 2011
Telerik provide Windows Phone 7 developers with a product called RadControls, which is bundled with a number of controls that are reportedly not available in the UI toolbox for WP7. Many apps...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jul 05, 2011
TellMe used to be a separate company specializing in voice recognition technology, until Microsoft swooped in, bought and merged them with their own exiting voice research team in early 2009....
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by Rich Edmonds
Jun 29, 2011
Here we are folks! This is it, a Mango beta ROM (reportedly build 7661) is now available (or will be shortly) for developers to update on their retail devices. Fantastic news for the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jun 17, 2011
Make way for SketchFlow, a template which allows you to muster up prototype apps for Windows Phone 7 using SketchFlow features and controls, which are then ran in the SketchFlow player (not the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jun 15, 2011
Syncfusion has announced the release of their Essential User Interface Edition for Windows Phone 7, which provides enterprise developers the tools to create rich mobile applications and help drive...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 31, 2011
Telerik have been hosting free webinars covering the Windows Phone 7 platform, and this week (this Thursday to be exact) is based around live tiles. Coverage will also include future improvements...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 24, 2011
Russell Clark has just announced on Twitter that the Mango SDK documentation is available on MSDN, listing a large number of new APIs. We'll be keeping an eye out for the Mango SDK release and...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 09, 2011
Microsoft has announced today tool kits for their Windows Azure cloud that are available for both the iPhone and Windows phone, with a preview for Android.
The tool kits will allow developers to...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 06, 2011
The guys over at DigitalRune have released their game UI package that include .NET packages, which will aid developers in handling device input and creating GUIs in XNA. The libraries are...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 29, 2011
Should you posess incredible coding skill in the iOS realm and be interested in the Windows Phone platform, we have some good news for you for the gap between the two operating systems. Over...
