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Pivot and Panorama Have Moved AND Changed in WP8

 As a Windows Phone developer you're, no doubt, intimately familiar with the Pivot and Panorama controls. If you've looked at porting an app that uses...

0 replies - 1765 views - 01/31/13 by Matt Lacey in Articles

Building an Image Browser for Windows 8

This is a very first app we are going to create for Windows 8, an image browser using a FlipView control. The FlipView control lets people flip...

0 replies - 2412 views - 01/24/13 by Shubham Saxena in Articles

Four Things You Have to Remember for Windows 8 Apps

Recently I attended Windows 8 AppFest at Banglore and preparing now for Wowzapp (Windows 8 Hackathon) in Agra and learned a lot about developing Windows 8...

0 replies - 1628 views - 01/23/13 by Shubham Saxena in Articles

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 411 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

DZone App in the Windows Store

The first DZone app for Windows 8 is officially ready for download on PC and tablets.  Soon, the app will be available on Android, iOS and Windows...

0 replies - 6569 views - 01/21/13 by Will Soprano in Articles

Mobile, Tablet and Desktop Development All at The Same Time

When you go to create a mobile app for each major platform you quickly realise that it’s a mind boggling task with many languages and tools out there to...

0 replies - 4127 views - 01/21/13 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

DevRadio: Windows Phone 8 Features Overview

Technical Evangelists Jerry Nixon, Daniel Egan and Ryan Lowdermilk discuss their Top 20 (give or take) Windows Phone 8 features. Tune in as they discuss NFC...

0 replies - 1716 views - 01/19/13 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone Toolkit: A Winning Team

Maps in Windows Phone 8 is probably the biggest evidence of the great partnership between Nokia and Microsoft: in Windows Phone 8 the maps application...

0 replies - 4311 views - 01/18/13 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

Using Portable Class Libraries with Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 MVVM

Introduction Portable Class Libraries (PCL) support the cross-platform development of .NET Framework applications. With Portable Class Libraries, you can...

0 replies - 6464 views - 01/17/13 by Michael Crump in Articles

Concept Art Video: A Windows Phone as a Surface

Check it out.  Wouldn't it be cool if Microsoft actually put their Surface design to work for their Windows Phone?

0 replies - 786 views - 01/14/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Here's a Surface-as-Windows-Phone Concept

If only. Awesome.

0 replies - 1452 views - 01/12/13 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Walkthrough: A Custom Control in XAML isn’t a User Control

Catnip to developers is truly reuse. Redundant code is a source of continual agony to architects and maintenance developers alike. In XAML we have a few ways...

0 replies - 2227 views - 01/10/13 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Splash Screens in Windows 8

Introduction You may have noticed that after creating a new Windows Phone 8 application that the SplashScreenImage.jpg does not exist in the project as it...

0 replies - 2901 views - 01/09/13 by Michael Crump in Articles

Google Says In-Browser Maps Will Come Back to Windows Phone

First, Google Maps "didn't work on mobile IE" and redirected to the Google homepage. According to Google: The mobile web version of Google Maps is optimized...

0 replies - 1493 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

XNA to the Sunburn Gaming Engine and Beyond

So far in this series I’ve covered: MonoGame – a raw XNA implementation allowing you to create games but you have to code everything...

0 replies - 2299 views - 01/05/13 by Simon Jackson in Articles