Like the PC’s domination over Macs in decades past, low-cost devices for the masses will win the global smartphone war. It won’t even be close. Most of the world population has to buy their device first, without the luxury of … Continue reading
Now that I’ve spent the last two articles helping you to get your Metro user experience foundation created with CSS3 and Media Queries, it’s time to jump into one of the features of HTML5. Geolocation is perfectly suited for smartphones … Continue reading
In my last article covering HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone, I got you started with a simple boilerplate. It just so happened that the style I presented you with was Dark. Since we know that Windows Phone also has a … Continue reading
I’m excited to pass along the great news that our very own Windows Phone 7.5 is a 2012 Interaction Award winner! In a field of over 300 entries from 33 countries, the compelling UX of Windows Phone stood out. Our elegant … Continue reading
Internet Explorer 9 running on Windows Phone 7.5 has seriously raised the mobile web profile of Microsoft’s latest phone operating system. Up until recently, it’s been all about the apps written in Silverlight. With hardware-accelerated video, text rendering, canvas drawing, … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7.5 is running fast out of the gate for 2012. The stunning mobile operating system from Microsoft was the talk of CES in Las Vegas this year. The accolades streaming in from the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, … Continue reading
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
Since 90% of the world’s population has mobile network coverage, lets take a look at how they’re using it, where they’re using it, and what we should expect from the future… 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
On July 26th, the Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the release to
manufacturing (RTM) build of “Mango,” which is the latest version of the Windows Phone
operating system. 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
Written by: J. Gerry Purdy 10/20/2010 You have to hand it to Microsoft. They have certainly fulfilled the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Microsoft has had a number of previous attempts to build a … Continue reading
Just wanted to help spread the word that was posted by Brandon Watson earlier this morning on our Windows Phone Developer Blog. Go download the new Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta. The term “Beta” is understood to mean that things … Continue reading