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Tech.Days Live Video: From Zero to Hero - Getting your Apps on Marketplace
Oops – somehow this one slipped through the net. Brandon talks about Marketplace, recent and future improvements and how to maximise your opportunity by building apps customers really want. View this...
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Orange Selects, Free Apps and Mango
If you have a Windows Phone and you’re on Orange, you’ll hopefully have heard that they’re celebrating the launch of the “Orange Selects” Marketplace with a free app every day for the whole of July....
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Windows Phone App Submission and Languages
You’ll have noticed we’ve made some improvements to App Hub recently. And if, like me, you’ve tried to submit an app to Marketplace since 18th July you may have encountered an error relating to...
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Windows Phone App Hub Enhancements
If you’re a Windows Phone developer, the scheduled App Hub outage last Monday probably piqued your interest, along with a number of new features you may have noticed that started to roll out during the...
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Windows Phone App Hub Enhancements
[This post was cross-posted from the UK MSDN Team Blog ] If you’re a Windows Phone developer, the scheduled App Hub outage last Monday probably piqued your interest, along with a number of new features...
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Windows Phone “Mango” Is Done
Or, more correctly, it has been release to manufacturing (RTM’d) – ie the development team have signed off the final build and that build is now in the hands of handset manufacturers and mobile...
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Fancy Building Your Own Tower Defence Game?
If you do, or you just fancy learning some more about XNA, the Coding4Fun guys have created an open source game engine for Windows Phone that might just help. Not only is it a fully-featured Tower...
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Publishing a Mango Update to an Existing App
Assuming you’ve published Windows Phone applications to the Marketplace, you’re probably wondering how things will work if / when you want to update those apps to Mango. There’s a good post on the...
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Windows Phone “Mango” Jump Start Training 23rd/24th August
Building on the success of the original Windows Phone 7 Jump Start training, the dynamic duo* will be in action again to deliver free Mango Jump Start training live on 23rd and 24th August – 2 full...
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Ensure Your Apps are Published in All Markets
Unless there’s a good reason not to do so, you probably want to have your app available in as many Marketplace markets as possible. In particular, now we’ve added 19 new consumer markets, taking us...
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Free GUI Isolated Storage Explorer Tool
Those fabulous (and generous) guys over at Appa Mundi have created a free GUI version of the isolated storage explorer tool that ships with the Windows SDK 7.1 RC . If you’re a command-line person...
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What’s in Windows Phone Mango for me?
We’re not far away from the final version of Mango hitting the streets – whether it be in new handsets or delivered as a free update to existing Windows Phone users – so I thought it might be useful to...
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Mango Jump Start Training Recordings Available
A few weeks ago I blogged here about the Windows Phone “Mango” Jump Start Training with Rob Miles and Andy Wigley that was taking place on 23/24th August. The Windows Phone team have done an...
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Plug for our Windows Phone Online Conference
Just a quick plug for our upcoming online conference (Wednesday 5th October) which is themed “Design from a User Perspective”. More details on the UK MSDN blog here ....( read more ) ...read...
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Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published
“It was with a sense of trepidation that I blogged a request for people who might like to help create a Windows Phone eBook back in February 2011. Despite my initial scepticism, there was an...
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Windows Phone eBook Published
I had a crazy idea back in the early part of the year to try and create an eBook about Windows Phone development written by the community for the community. You can read more about it here:Would you...
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You know the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone works in the UK right?
If only I had a pound for every time I’ve been asked when Microsoft’s in-app advertising would be available in the UK. The Microsoft Advertising SDK was only available in the US for the initial Windows...
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The AdControl Requires Certain Capabilities
In my post last week I talked about the Advertising SDK and using the AdControl in our applications as a means of generating revenue. I should have mentioned something that could catch you out – the...
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Star Chart–A Definitive AR App for Windows Phone
I asked San Shepherd, co-founder of Escapist Games Ltd, a few questions about Star Chart, a high tech star gazing companion that allows you to see what’s out there in all its augmented reality glory.Q....
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More Windows Phone Events (UK)
We have another couple of free Windows Phone events coming up – one in London and one in Bristol. London is on Saturday 4th Feb (I’ll be there) Bristol is on Saturday 11th Feb (my fellow evangelist...
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