mobile development

Project Rome Overview Project Rome is a platform for creating experiences that transcend a single device and driving up user engagement – empowering a developer to create human-centric scenarios that move with the user and blur the lines between their devices regardless of form factor or...

The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK provides documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools you can use with Visual Studio to build applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3. Link Removed

One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter? No. But one is the works! Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...

Even with the Channel 9 Studio closed in order to host the Channel 9 Live: Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 event, there was still a huge number of posts this week! Here are just 30 of them... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including...

How can I not make this today's post? :) All times are in PDT (UTC - 7:00) Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event .png']Link Removed On July 20th we will celebrate the final release of Visual Studio 2015! We invite you to join us online to learn about the new features and technologies...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10166), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10166). Preview SDK Build 10166 contains bug fixes and changes to the API surface area. You can download it from the Windows 10...

Developing games in Visual Studio 2015 will be easier than ever! Soma announced last week that Microsoft and the Visual Studio team is working very closely three gaming engine developers, so closely that in the future there will be "co-installation" of these engines baked in. As someone who...

Today's episode is somewhat overdue, as the Cross-Platform Mobile Development experience has actually been in VS2015 previews since, well, Preview. Join us in today's packed episode as we go behind the scenes with Ankit and Ion on how the experience came to pass, what Visual Studio can bring to...

I've highlighted Link Removed just a few times... TouchDevelop to Arduino TouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more... Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKey Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop Getting in touch with...

Windows Phone 8.1 will be hitting phones soon now. Yeah, I know all of YOU are running the Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Preview, but for the general user, most should be getting in the coming weeks and months (insert standard disclaimer that your mileage may vary, dates are estimates and under external...

Today's project shows off a simple yet "real" universal application that's already available in the Stores for free, but the source is available too... Link Removed This is a sample which creates a universal Windows app written in C#, that runs on both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. You...

Taking a breather from Visual Studio Extensions, today our Mobile Monday project shows you how you can build Cortana enabled projects... Link Removed ... You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver personalized, natural experiences to users. What you may...

Microsoft will hold a new developer conference, known as Build 2011, in September to focus on Windows 8, as well as web and mobile development - including smartphone and tablet. Link Removed

Want to optimize how a list of images loads and scrolls in your Windows Phone application? Jobi Joy, UX Architect with Link Removed and key contributor to the IRC chat app in the MIX11 Day 2 keynote, returns to discuss with John how he handles image scenarios such as this, as well as how he ekes...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [Link Removed] New Link Removed announced! [Link Removed] Eric Lawrence - A detailed walkthrough of Link Removed [Link Removed] Link Removed, via Greg Duncan [04:06] Lutz Roeder - Cool HTML 5 Demos - A...

Link Removed is a Windows Phone 7 game for programmers and even folks who are casually interested in learning how to program - on a mobile phone. This game includes "Intellisense" (automatic code completion as you type), support for C# and VB.NET, many thought-provoking puzzles that programmers...

In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon reboot their windows phone client project using Test Driven Development (TDD) and the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. Previous episodes focused on getting different technologies such as Windows Phone, WCF, and OData, connected. With a better...

When you think about all the code executing in the world at any given time, there's a good chance you're thinking about a lot of code written in C/C++ (aka native code). As Mohsen Agsen mentions so astutely in this impromptu and candid conversation, C++ can be thought of as the dark matter of...

This year at the PDC we took advantage of the large amount of students creating apps for the new Windows Phone 7. In this clip I sat down with 5 students from across the globe to learn about how the spent their time at PDC and what apps that had each created. Good stuff! Link Removed Link Removed

David Anson, Senior SDE in the Silverlight controls toolkit, andDave Relyea, Senior Dev Lead on Silverlight mobile team, introduce the controls available in the first release of theLink Removed. The toolkit is open source—not only do you get good controls, but you get primitives you can reuse...