Windows App Studio Beta: Build a Windows Phone AND Windows app in one...
Eight months ago we launched Windows Phone App Studio Beta. Over 400,000 of you have used it, including novice developers who have built and published their first app, college professors, who’ve used...
View ArticleNew features for side-loaded apps in Windows 8.1 update
With Windows 8.1 Update, we’re pleased to introduce two features for side-loaded Windows Store apps that make it possible to interoperate with desktop processes (apps or local services) outside of the...
View ArticleDelight and engage your users with these new Windows Phone 8.1 capabilities
This week at Build, we announced Windows Phone 8.1 and the Visual Studio tooling to build apps for it. With this release, the team brings platform convergence to the Windows developer platform,...
View ArticleWindows-compatible hardware development boards available soon
Viraf Gandhi is a Senior Program Manager in the Engineering Partner Experience team in the Operating Systems Group. Windows is a compelling platform in part because it delivers a single development...
View ArticleBuild 2014: TabTale Brings Popular Kids Apps to Windows 8 Platform
Israel-based TabTale is a world leader in children’s mobile entertainment and education and has repeatedly been featured among the Top 10 on Apple’s iOS global publisher rankings. Serving over 25...
View ArticleBuild 2014 highlights #1: keynotes, “universal apps,” Windows Phone 8.1, and...
We just completed Build 2014 last week, and what a show! Between extensive keynotes packed with many important announcements, over 150 breakout sessions, and the channel9 live recordings from the show...
View ArticleThe Fast Lane for App Certification: 12 Windows Store Certification Tips
When you register for a Windows Dev Center account, your goal is most certainly to submit an app, get it certified, and distribute it to your potential users. In this post I’d like to focus on app...
View ArticleNow live: Consolidated price tiers to support universal Windows apps, may...
This week we began rolling out the behind the scenes infrastructure changes in support of announcements at last week’s //build/ conference. This includes the consolidated price tier structure, which...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8.1 now available on Windows Phone Preview for Developers
Starting today, you can update your personal dev phone(s) to run Windows Phone 8.1 using the Windows Phone Preview for Developers program . Along with the tooling delivered in Visual Studio 2013 Update...
View ArticleDev Center now open for Windows Phone 8.1 and universal Windows app submissions
I’m Keith and I manage the engineering teams accountable for the Dev Center experience. Over the past few months the team has been hard at work enabling the universal Windows app experience announced...
View ArticleDualShot developer plans to increase reach, reduce dev time with Windows...
“The potential to increase reach across platforms while actually reducing development time makes [Windows Phone 8.1] the most developer-centric release I have witnessed from Microsoft.”Canadian...
View Article//build 2014 highlights #2: enterprise, XAML, and IE/JavaScript/web apps
Welcome to our next installment of //build 2014 highlights! This week we’ll start with relevant sessions for enterprise developers that are rich and diverse. As we mentioned in a brief post on April...
View ArticleRespond to App Reviews: a phased rollout
At //build/ earlier this month, we announced that the option would be available for developers to respond to reviews, beginning in May. Today I want to share that we’ve taken the first step toward...
View ArticleWinJS on Windows Phone 8.1
This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Windows Ecosystem & Frameworks teamThere were two big announcements involving Windows Library for JavaScript (“WinJS”) this year at //build...
View Article//build/ –> //learn/-> //publish/: new resources to help you publish your...
You’ve heard announcements at //build/ around the launch of Windows Phone 8.1 and the converged development platform; now get the details and support from community experts to bring your universal...
View Article//build 2014 highlights #3: graphics, media, design, and the business of apps
We’re deep into our //build 2014 highlights, and this week we bring together some of the deepest technical sessions—those on graphics and media—with those at the opposite end of the spectrum, namely...
View ArticleJoin us to //publish/ your Windows apps for phones, tablets and PCs
This blog was authored by Microsoft MVP, Joost van Schaik Windows Phone has been a passion for me since even before it was released, and I have been developing for it ever since. Passion can take you...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 73: Peter Torr on Targeting Multiple Resolutions
At Build 2014 we announced the ability to build universal app projects in Visual Studio that can be leveraged to easily deliver apps for both Windows Phone and Windows PC/Laptop/Tablet. This new...
View ArticleBackground transfer API in universal Windows apps: what you need to know
This blog was written by Himadri Sarkar, Program Manager, Windows NetworkingWith the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we can now build Windows Store and Windows Phone Store apps from a single source...
View Article//build 2014 highlights #4: so much more!
In our previous three posts of this series we’ve covered a wide extent of //build 2014. In this final post, then, we wanted to complete the story.First are a number of additional sessions on the...
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