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8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development

The Battle of the Game Engines – Unity vs SunBurn

7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Greed

Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Release Offers New Bag of Tricks

Mikael Koskinen05/16/12
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TcpClient – Making Windows Phone Sockets Easy

SocketEx.TcpClient is a MIT-licensed TcpClient for Windows Phone which aims to make working with Windows Phone sockets easy. Compared to the TcpClient in full .NET Framework, SocketEx.TcpClient isn’t 100% compatible and some of the features aren’t implemented at all.

Lohith Nagaraj05/16/12
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Windows Phone A-Z Resources

In this post I would like to point you all to an excellent post my one of my favorite technical blogger Scot Hanselman. Scot is a principal program manager at Microsoft and works for the Web Department.

Robert Diana05/15/12
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HTML5's Value for Mobile Event Apps

Current mobile technology has several deficiencies that make it not only expensive to implement, but it also limits the types of devices that can access a particular app.

Daniel Egan05/15/12
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The Tale of 3 Platforms

How to use Uncorked to log/rate your Wine collection on all three platforms (Windows, Android, Apple).

Karthikeyan Anb...05/14/12
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Play with Media Player Task in Windows Phone

In this article we are going to see how to play around with the Media Player Launcher task, with this Media Player task we can provide with in the application to launch a media player and play a video or audio file.

Paul Hammant05/14/12
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Application Development Glass Ceilings

Sometimes in app-dev we’re using technologies that have a delayed cost. Simple to use now, but with shortcomings that mean that later features might be much harder to add. The term ‘Glass Ceilings’ (whilst classically meaning something else) seems to apply here.

Andrew Trice05/14/12
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A Response to “Shell Apps and Silver Bullets”

There is an article floating around the web today, warning against “Shell Apps” and tools like PhoneGap. The logic in this article has a few arguments that are misleading, and I’d like to introduce some counter arguments as they relate to PhoneGap and HTML experiences for comparison.

William Soprano05/13/12
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Internet’s First Spanish Review Site for Family-Friendly Windows Phone Apps

To celebrate its sixth month on the web, Windows Phone Parent has launched Familia Windows Phone, the first Spanish review site for Windows Phone apps that enhance the lives of kids and their parents.

Jorge Ramon05/12/12
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How-to: Define Application Icons in Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch provides a means to define these icons in the Application Class. The icons will be shown on the home screen for iPhone and iPad applications.

Karthikeyan Anb...05/12/12
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Messin' with Bing Maps Directions Task in Windows Phone

This quick tutorial walks you through the Bing Maps Direction Task, currently available in Windows Phone App. development; it allows you to find the shortest driving direction between 2 specific points.

Karthikeyan Anb...05/11/12
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Play with Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone

In this tutorial we are going to start with the list of chooser task, in my previous tutorials we have seen the different Launcher tasks available and we explored each one of them. Here we are going to see about the Address Chooser Task, with this chooser task we can provide an option for the end user to select a contact and get information on that particular contact.

Raymond Camden05/10/12
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Converting a dynamic web site to a PhoneGap application

Earlier today a reader asked me about the possibility of converting his mobile-friendly site into a "real" application via PhoneGap. I told him that this could be very easy.

Max Katz05/10/12
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Build Your iOS App in the Cloud With Tiggzi Mobile App Builder

Now you can create your mobile app in Tiggzi and instantly build the iOS binary file (or Android).

Francesco De Vittori05/10/12
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How to: Reset the Idle Detection Countdown in WinPhone7

Windows Phone 7 like every other phone OS turns off the screen after a period of inactivity. However there are some particular cases where it is useful to disable the idle detection, for example in games or apps that require long reading (or watching). In that case you can completely disable idle detection. This post explains how.