Windows Phone 8–Application Model & Fast Application Resume feature

Windows Phone 8 has a new feature introduced called as ‘Fast Application Resume’, which allows the Windows Phone 8 OS to launch the application from suspended to running quickly. You feel like toggling between multiple apps with out much delay comparing to Windows Phone 7.x platform. With Windows Phone 7.5, OS was allowed to move […]

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Learn using the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training content–for Online or Offline view–Courtesy Channel9

On November 28-29th 2012, Microsoft has hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective applications quickly. If you missed this outstanding event, you’re in luck. All 20 modules are now available online for your on-demand viewing, (or download) […]

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WP8 Developer Series–Getting to know Common API’s for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

  [ Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 logos are trademarks of Microsoft ] Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system by Microsoft, officially announced the release to manufacture on 29th OCT 2012. Previous Windows Phone versions were all based on old CE kernel and with Windows Phone […]

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WP8 Developer Series–Installing Windows Phone 8.0 SDK and Getting Started

Microsoft has released the final SDK for Windows Phone 8.0 for developers. In this article we are going to walk through the steps and requirements to install Windows Phone 8.0 SDK on your PC. To find out what’s new in the SDK visit What’s new in the Windows Phone SDK 8.0. 1. Requirements Windows Phone […]

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown

Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available […]

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Making an Offline install of Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8

In my last articles I introduced you to the latest update for Windows Phone SDK to support Windows Phone 7.8. The installer available download from here, the installer packageWPExpress78_update.exe is an Online/Web Installer – will download the necessary packages on demand at the time of installation, and it would take some time depending on your […]

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