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Adding visual states and animation to your Listboxes can juice up your Windows Phone app.
08/27/2012
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By Greg Shackles
The Android SDK provides the ability to use the built-in camera within your applications. Whether applying photo filters and creating the next Instagram, scanning QR codes, or simply allowing the user to share what they're seeing with friends, Android's camera API takes care of the hard work for you.
08/14/2012
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How to use a template selector to dynamically select which item template to use for each list item.
08/06/2012
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By Sam Nasr
Secondary Live Tiles enable an application to utilize both sides of a tile, delivering twice the information.
08/06/2012
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Learn how to automate the WebBrowser control to display and customize the way Web content appears in your Windows Phone application.
08/01/2012
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How to disable Expression Blend design time data at runtime.
07/23/2012
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By Sam Nasr
Live Tiles are images that update a pinned tile (icon) on the start screen of Windows Phone. They're used to offer updates to a user browsing the start screen, without having to open the application completely.
07/21/2012
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In part one of this series, Nick Randolph discusses the use of Expression Blend design-time data in Windows Phone applications.
07/12/2012
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By Greg Shackles
Learn how to create background services by building a simple music player.
07/10/2012
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Using Windows Phone's Map control and displaying multiple points using data binding.
06/22/2012
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When most people think of location, they assume this information comes from a GPS module. While this is true, Windows Phone also has support for determining location based on cell tower location and WiFi networks.
06/11/2012
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Integrating with SkyDrive can help your Windows Phone application save a user's settings to the cloud, and retrieve them across multiple devices and platforms.
06/05/2012
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By Michael Crump
PhoneGap is used for building mobile applications across a range of devices with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Learn how to use PhoneGap to build a Windows Phone application that can be easily ported to another phone.
06/04/2012
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Persisting user settings in Windows Phone is something every mobile developer needs to know how to do. Nick Randolph walks you through the process.
05/08/2012
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Multimedia is expected in today's mobile applications, and the fun isn't only for smartphone and tablet users. Mono for Android, based on the Mono project's open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework, can help you take advantage of Android Camera APIs in Visual Studio.
05/04/2012
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The latest Android SDK provides an emulator with improved debugging capabilities. Mono for Android developers will appreciate the upgrades.
04/26/2012
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Nick Randolph continues to look at building applications across both Windows Phone and Windows 8, this time focusing on the navigation model.
04/24/2012
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Migrating a photo-sharing Windows Phone application to run under Windows 8.
04/16/2012
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By overriding templates, you can modify the look and feel of the ListBox without changing the underlying behavior.
04/01/2012
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Nick Randolph shows how to create and work with the Application Bar in your Windows Phone application.
03/30/2012
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Eric Vogel walks through how to send and receive push notifications in a Windows 8 Metro application.
03/25/2012
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By creating a UI that works well with both dark and light themes, your Windows Phone applications will stand out.
02/06/2012
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Nick Randolph looks at how you can use a UriMapper to help structure your Windows Phone application.
01/12/2012
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How to integrate your Windows Phone 7 application into the search experience.
11/30/2011
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ASP.NET 4 upgrades the support for detecting browser capabilities with profiles for the latest mobile browsers. The good news is that you can use that new information with older versions of ASP.NET.
11/14/2011