Interoperability

In this video tutorial, Ben Lobaugh of the Microsoft Open Technologies team demonstrates how to get started with Windows Phone 8 development using Apache Cordova, the free open source framework for creating mobile applications using standard APIs. Here's the quick list of steps to follow to get…

Earlier in April, a new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 7 was made available to allow mobile web developer build apps for Windows Phone 7 that would integrate into the experience of the platform. The community has been hard at work and MS Open Tech helped them get this new jQuery Mobile theme…

Sencha just announced the support for Windows Phone 8 in Sencha Touch, a high performance HTML5 mobile application framework. In addition to the support for the platform, a new theme is available that allows to fully integrate the Sencha Touch based applications into the Windows Phone 8 experience.…

Ogre3D is an open source 3D graphics engine that powers many great games. Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. helped the Ogre3D community porting the engine to Windows Phone 8. This video gives you a short overview of the Ogre3D engine running on Windows Phone 8. You can learn more about recent…

A birthday greeting from Jean Paoli, President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., and Co-Creator of XML 1.0 @ W3C.

OData is a web protocol that unlocks data silos to facilitate data access from browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and other scenarios. In this screencast, you'll see how easy it is to set up on OData service (deployed on Windows Azure) for an IBM DB2 database (running on…

HTML5 can be used in Windows Phone application development. Leveraging HTML5 allows publishing a same application on several platforms reusing a maximum of code. Tools and frameworks such as Apache Cordova (previously known as PhoneGap) allow to "wrap" the HTML5 and JavaScript code into a…

CouchDB is a simple and practical NoSQL database engine. The CouchDB tools come with abundance of scripts and samples to create web applications leveraging CouchDB. This video demonstrates how to write a simple Windows 8 JavaScript application using CouchDB to navigate through a picture album.…

This video is an introduction to the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) that allows applying a Metro style user interface to HTML5-based Windows Phone application. HTML5 elements and controls are examined as they appear with the Metro style theme applied. Theme switching…

PhoneGap is an HTML5 and JavaScript framework that allows to build cross-platform mobile applications very easily. Since version 1.3, PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone and integrates into Visual Studio 2010. For developers who are already using PhoneGap to target multiple mobile platforms, they…