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Chris Smith03/13/12
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Folders for Full Unlocked and Rooted WP7 Devices

WindowsPhoneHacker put together this video previewing his Root Folder Application, a branch of the Folders Application for Full Unlocked or Rooted Windows Phones.

Chris Smith02/23/12
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Making Money with Windows Phone 7 Applications

When you designed and developed a Windows Phone application, you just took the first steps into the full life cycle of a mobile application. The next important step is publishing and marketing your application, while keeping a monetization model in mind. This session will cover all of those topics.

John Esposito11/14/11
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Report: Windows Phone 7 Surpasses BlackBerry OS in Developer Interest

Nokia's first Windows phone, the Lumia 800, just received a beyond-stellar review from Matthew Panzarino. Some choice excerpts:

Sudheendra Kovalam11/01/11
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Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers - Part 2

Let us continue our exploration of Windows Phone 7 Launchers and Choosers. I had described Windows Phone 7 launchers here. A Chooser is an API , that launched a  built in functionality for the user to accomplish some task and returns back the data that...

Henry Lee10/28/11
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Custom Versioning Strategy on TFS 2010 for Windows Phone

Read this tutorial that shows you how to implement the major.minor.build.revision format in Team Foundation Server while developing Windows Phone apps.Recently, I started to build many Windows Phone 7 applications and I decided to take the next step and...

John Esposito10/25/11
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Windows Phone Mango database support: actually pretty good

Back in June, WindowsPhoneGeek wrote a popular post walking Windows 7.1 developers through creating a simple Local Database application (for storing strings).A few months later, on September 23rd, Microsoft published their own step-by-step HowTo

Simon Jackson10/25/11
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XNA to SilverXNA–Part 2 Getting your XNA project running in Silverlight

In Part 1 I went over some of the things you’ll need to do to get your current XNA project ready for use in the Silverlight XNA integration which I've dubbed as SilverXNA for this tutorial series.

Sudheendra Kovalam10/23/11
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Windows Phone 7 : Launchers and Choosers

Windows Phone 7 seems to have captured my attention a lot these days. So I am ( and will be ) blogging about Windows Phone 7 like crazy. I believe that it is Microsoft’s first step in the right direction (in the phone OS business). So coming back to...

Sudheendra Kovalam10/22/11
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Windows Phone 7 Design Considerations

Windows Phone 7 is an amazing platform. It delivers what it promised. But the experience is not 100% complete. Now it’s up to us to complete the experience by developing some cool apps. Now we all are aware that a Silverlight developer can easily develop...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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WP7 Skydrive API 1.0 Released

Windows Phone developers can start building apps that access Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage utility today.  The 1.0 version of the WP7 Skydrive API was released this week.  Skydrive is Windows Live-based and can be used through the web browser:

Senthil Kumar10/21/11
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How to enable Windows Phone Application Tombstone in the Emulator when Debugging

The Visual Studio 2010 provides the option in the Windows Phone Project to set the Application Tombstone upon deactivation when debugging .   You can set this option by following the below steps   1. In Visual Studio 2010 Express / Professional /...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Common Silverlight LightSwitch Screen Commands

Don't you just love it when some kind-hearted blogger takes the time to find scattered tips and pieces of documentation and organize them into one mega-tutorial?  Well, that's kinda what Beth Massi did in her recent blog, "I Command You!" -...

Kunal Chowdhury10/20/11
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Detecting the System Information of a WP7 Device

Sometimes we want to show the System Information to the user, whether it is an Application or a simple Game. We need to show the system specific information to the Windows Phone 7 user by using a System page. So, in such case, how will you fetch that...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/11
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Build Real-Time Face Recognition on Windows Phone

This tutorial is going to help you build a much higher level (and much cooler) app than those dinky stop-watch or tic-tac-toe app tutorials.  Igor Ralić just did a little hacking with the FaceLight project, and now you're about to see how you can build a...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/11
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Understanding the WP7.1 Periodic Agents API

There are plenty of new APIs out in the new 7.1 version of the Windows Phone OS, and developers are still learning how to use each one properly and to its fullest extent.  Scott Wildermuth blogged recently on the Periodic Agents API and then posted a follow...