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Data binding is one of the fundamental concepts for good Windows Phone application design but can be difficult to grasp for newcomers. The core concept is this: No one wants to manually...

What code samples do we have and how do you get them? We try to create and maintain a large number of code samples covering a wide array of developer scenarios. In this episode we're going to spend some time going over a few of the samples that are available, as well as some ways to find them.

Here are...

The 'Coding 4 Fun' Toolkit is a powerful set of controls and libraries that you can leverage for free, to add rich features and functionality to your XAML Windows Phone application.

Today we talked to Clint Rutkas, the creator of this toolkit, about some of the thinking behind it, and some of the cool...

I met up with my colleague Jean- Christophe Cimetiere at GDC today, where he demonstrated the Moga Controller working with Windows Phone.

Find out more about the Moga controller at http://www.mogaanywhere.com/.

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We're excited to announce the public availability of Unity for Windows Phone!

I spoke with Microsoft Technical Evangelist Vlad Kolesnikov about how developers can get started right now building games for both Windows and Windows Phone using the Unity game developer ecosystem tools.

We first took a look...

If you've ever gone to the Windows Store's website, you've noticed that we promote certain apps and games in our Store. You may have asked yourself, 'how do they pick the apps and games that they showcase?' Our objective is to showcase the apps and games that are the best, so the natural question is:...

This week we spoke to Eric Bennett and Josh Debner from the Windows Phone camera team. Eric and Josh work on the new developer feature, Lens apps, and wanted to walk us through what it is and how it works.

Here are a few links to some of the resources we mentioned during the course of the conversation:...

Teresa Greiner joins Rob Tiffany for this strategic final session of the Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start. By 2015, Gartner predicts that 80% of all mobile applications developed will be hybrid or mobile web-oriented. Teresa shares important approaches developers and application architects...

Building for consistent experiences across Windows devices (Tiles, Notifications, Animations for differing screen sizes, controls, Lifecycle), Minimizing Development through reuse (Portable Class Library) and Sharing Code from Windows Phone Runtime and the Windows Runtime, and Architecture (Architecture...

Rob Tiffany illustrates a variety of ways Windows Phone 8 can be effectively leveraged in the enterprise. During this module, focus is on both enterprise architecture, publishing and device management. Specific topics include Mobile Enterprise Concepts, building mobile middleware with SQL Server 2012...