The last time I talked to you about Windows Phone security, I showed you how to encrypt your data and save it in Isolated Storage using Silverlight’s AesManaged class to create a Key and an Initialization Vector (IV) based on … Continue reading
Join the Windows Azure team at Seattle Interactive Conference (Nov 2 -3, 2011) for two days of technical content and one-on-one advice and assistance from product experts. Cloud Experience track is for experienced developers and who want to learn how … Continue reading
The profound effects of the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) is blurring the lines between consumers and the enterprise. The fact that virtually every type of mobile device is now a candidate to make employees productive means that cross-platform, enabling technologies are … Continue reading
In this week’s scenario, I’ll illustrate how Windows Phone utilizes many of Gartner’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s Cloud services in Azure Continue reading
In this week’s scenario, I’ll illustrate how Windows Phone utilizes many of Gartner’s Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure. Continue reading
Beyond developing apps and games with Silverlight and XNA, take advantage of the new emulator to view and test your new HTML5 websites. Continue reading
If you are a Windows Phone developer, this sample-filled video shows you how to create, manage, and access structured data that is locally stored on the phone via SQL Server Compact. This new functionality will be available in the next … Continue reading
The combination of mobile and cloud computing is like peanut butter and chocolate. Nobody does it better than Microsoft when Windows Phones and Slates are connected to Windows Azure over wireless. The Microsoft cloud platform offers mobile developers an easy … Continue reading
Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in … Continue reading
If you attended MIX 11 or watched it on Channel 9, you might have seen Todd Brix’s session titled “Making Money with your Applications on Windows Phone.” In this session, Todd talked about all the great things Windows Phone users … Continue reading
Hey all you Windows Phone 7 developers, the floodgates have been opened! Developers have been able to submit up to 5, free-priced application submissions for free as part of their $99 annual registration fee. Additional free apps could be submitted … Continue reading
Right on the heels of the Microsoft – Nokia partnership announcement, we’ve got a bunch of new features that will be coming out before the end of 2011. Let’s take a quick look at what’s coming: – Copy and Paste … Continue reading
The two companies plan to combine assets and develop innovative products on an unprecedented scale to build a new global mobile ecosystem. – Nokia will adopt Windows Phone 7 as its principle smartphone strategy and help drive the future of … Continue reading
CIOs are asking for help in confronting the tidal wave of mobile devices entering the enterprise. IT departments have raised the white flag as attempts to block consumer-focused smartphones and tablets have failed. The Consumerization of IT has been a … Continue reading
With the new version 4.0, the little-database-that-could has grown up into a powerful server database ready to take on the web. Continue reading