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Microsoft’s Former Silverlight Programmer Examines Marketplace Stats

August 19, 2011 No Comments

Former Microsoft Silverlight Program Manager Justin Angel  decided that he was going to download every app on the Marketplace in order to figure out what programs developers were using for their apps and a little bit more: “Wrote a query that runs on the entire WP7 marketplace and looks for XAPs with the exact same DLLs” […]

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Developer: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is now available

August 17, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft gives more ammo to developers as Silverlight for the Windows Phone toolkit is now available. Below are some of the new features added as well as the links to download. I am really pumped to see what amazing new app are created for mango which is set to be released soon.   New features […]

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Creators of USA Today App Sing Praises to WP7 Development Experience

May 17, 2011 No Comments

USA Today recently released their official app and user feedback was very good. I was surprised to learn that USA Today didn’t hire outside developers and instead they made their own app in-house. The developers decided to talk about their experience with developing for Windows Phone 7 via the USA Today.com TechLabs: “………We think we […]

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Microsoft Creates a One Stop Shop For Info On Making Apps

April 26, 2011 No Comments

There is already a tremendous amount of information that is available online on how to create Windows Phone 7 applications. Before WP7 even was out we heard the screams coming out of Redmond – developers, developers, developers!!! So if you want to create WP7 apps there is no shortage of the amount of tutorials and […]

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Rumor: List of Announcements For MIX11 (WP7)

April 11, 2011 No Comments

With Microsoft hosting MIX11 soon, they have been teasing that a few important announcements will be made regarding Windows Phone 7. Well now there is a mysterious list going around that supposedly is every bullet point that Microsoft will make regarding WP7. The list is as follows… Interoperability: devs can now use both Silverlight and […]

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New Silverlight Windows Phone Toolkit

February 19, 2011 No Comments

The Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 toolkit has been updated to add a bunch of features and improvements. The tilt effect in use on the main page The LongListSelector, which has received a number of improvements and bug fixes The performance progress bar, including a quick demonstration where the blue progress bar (the PerformanceProgressBar in […]

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Nokia Begins to Advertise the Lumia 710 – Welcome to the Amazing Everyday (video)

With the Lumia 800 being Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone at the moment, its no wonder that it has been getting...

Lenovo LePhone S2 Running Windows Phone Coming 2012

Lenovo announced yesterday its LePhone S2 running Android which seemed to kill any chance of them making a Windows...