Windows Phone Power Tools–a must have extension for all Windows Phone developers

The Windows Phone Power Tools are a natural extension to the developer tools that come with the Windows Phone SDK. Instead of allowing you to only install developer xaps the Power Tools let you test update scenarios by allowing you to update an existing developer app. Instead of having to step through the IsolatedStorage file […]

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Download Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Final (Online and Offline standalone Installer)

Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing(RTM) for Windows Phone 8 on 29th OCT 2012 and as announced on the sameday – Microsoft has released Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers on 30th OCT 2012. The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is a full-featured development environment to use for building apps and games for Windows Phone […]

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Windows Phone Marketplace is now Windows Phone Store

Welcome to new Windows Phone Store!! Today Windows Phone team has announced the changes to Windows Phone Marketplace and this has been officially renamed to “Windows Phone Store”.   Read the Windows Phone team announcement blog. Here is how the new phone store will look like the shiny new default home page Find my phone Just […]

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Introducing Windows Azure Mobile Services – Cloud Backend Solution For Mobile Apps

Microsoft has introduced a new service in Windows Azure platform – Windows Azure Mobile Services makes it incredibly easy to connect a scalable cloud backend to your client and mobile applications. It allows you to easily store structured data in the cloud that can span both devices and users, integrate it with user authentication, as […]

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WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps RC

The WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps installer extends the Add Service Reference experience with client-side OData support for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2012. The tooling will add references to NuGet packages capable of consuming OData services up to v3. Updated runtime assemblies will be made available through the normal NuGet […]

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Microsoft Unity 2.1 & Microsoft Unity 2.1 for Silverlight

Unity is a dependency injection container from Microsoft. It is full-featured, with support for instance and type interception and custom extensions. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages: Simplified object creation, especially for hierarchical object structures and dependencies Abstraction of requirements; this allows developers to specify dependencies at run […]

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