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Walkthrough: Monetize Windows 8 with the Microsoft Advertising SDK

An interstitial advertisement is traditionally recognized as a full-page ad appearing between two pages. Interstitial, which means “gap” perceives a gap...

0 replies - 2428 views - 12/07/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Playing with the ListView Layout Generator

The past months I've been working on creating new, exciting Windows Store apps, using the Windows Library for Javascript, WinJS. Fortunately, since most...

0 replies - 2674 views - 12/07/12 by Mariano Vazquez in Articles

Microsoft's Touch-Based Development Environment

Are you looking for a little extra cash for the upcoming holidays? Then you might be interested in creating some cool apps to sell in the Windows Store. Or...

0 replies - 2961 views - 12/06/12 by Clint Edmonson in Articles

DevRadio: You’re Coding from the Wrong End! Adventures in Advanced Data Modeling

This is a combined post of part 1, 2, and three especially united for my readers. in this episode I have a lot of fun with Buck Woody who has forgotten more...

0 replies - 2400 views - 12/06/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Nokia Announces Premium Developer Program

Nokia has recently announced a new initiative for Windows Phone developer that is really interesting. At the same price of a standard Windows Phone account for...

0 replies - 1842 views - 12/05/12 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

Microsoft at the End of the World: 2012 in Review

The end of the world must be coming. Not because the Mayan calendar says so, but because Microsoft is innovating more than Apple. It has been a crazy year,...

0 replies - 7859 views - 12/04/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles

A Terrible Way to Set Up Commands in Your View Model

tl;dr; Put code where it is defined. It makes maintenance much easier.This has become a bit of a pet-peeve of mine lately. Please indulge me while I share.I...

0 replies - 3746 views - 12/03/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

App Development Snack: Windows Store File Type Association Icons

One of the declarations you can have with a Windows Store app is the file type association, which lets file types become associated with your application. This...

0 replies - 1690 views - 12/03/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

WP8 XAML and DirectX App Crashes When Adding Navigation

Creating applications from default templates without understanding them might introduce serious bugs in your application. Consider the simple Windows...

0 replies - 1863 views - 12/02/12 by Toni Petrina in Articles

App Development Snack: Background Color

When you are configuring the appxmanifest for your Windows Store app, one of the options is the background colour for the tile – YOU SHOULD ALWAYS SET...

0 replies - 1633 views - 11/30/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Is There a Need for Emulators If You Have to Test on Actual Devices?

This is in response to a comment on my post about the undocumented way I found of creating a xap file you can't deploy to a #wp8 device. In...

0 replies - 3379 views - 11/29/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

A Windows 8 App Design Worksheet

Attached is a worksheet that might help you when you’re brainstorming the design of your Windows 8 app.It encourages the 3-tier navigation...

0 replies - 2851 views - 11/29/12 by Jeremy Foster in Articles

SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.1.1 Released, Now Supports WP8 and VS2012

Just a short note to let you know, that the SQL Server Compact Toolbox add-in has been updated beginning of this month to support the following new...

0 replies - 2701 views - 11/29/12 by Erik Ejlskov Jensen in Articles

Background Agent Expiry in Windows Phone 8

In Windows Phone 7[.x] background agents would expire (stop working/running) if an app wasn't launched for 14 days. Today I noticed in MSDN that...

0 replies - 2477 views - 11/28/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

Create a xap File You Can't Deploy to a #wp8 Device

"Deployment failed." It's not a message you want to see when deploying your app to a device. Especially if you've previously deployed to the emulator without...

0 replies - 2487 views - 11/28/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles