Category Archives: Windows Phone

App Studio: a new tool by Microsoft for Windows Phone developers

Yesterday Microsoft has revelaed a new tool for all the Windows Phone developers, called App Studio. It’s a web application, that can be used to create a new Windows Phone application starting from scratch: by using a visual editor, you’ll … Continue reading

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New SDK update for Windows Phone 8

Microsoft, last Friday, has released a new update for the Windows Phone 8 SDK, that works both with Visual Studio 2012 (it’s required, at least, the Update 2 installed) and Visual Studio 2013 Preview. The update doesn’t include any new … Continue reading

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SkyDrive breaking changes with Live SDK: update your apps!

Update: as the developer Graham Haley has reported me on Twitter, Microsoft has fixed the server sode issue and reported it in the official MSDN forum. This means that your application should work fine now even if you’re using a Live SDK … Continue reading

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Some clarifications about Windows Phone, Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013

Yesterday Microsoft has released the much anticipated Windows 8.1 Preview, together with the first Preview of Visual Studio 2013. The Windows team worked really hard in the latest month and I think that the results are really good: Windows 8.1 … Continue reading

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First steps in Caliburn Micro with Windows Phone 8 – How to manage different DataContext

After a while I’m back to publish a post about Caliburn Micro and Windows Phone. The reason is that, during the development of my Movies Tracker app, I’ve found my self in a corner case I haven’t managed before: a … Continue reading

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