Windows Phone

In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8. In this video we cover The basics of location and mapping The power of Windows Phone location and mapping APIs including simple ways to do distance calculations, reverse geocoding (get an address from a…

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone . In this episode Laura takes a look at: NBA Jam Contre Jour SynthPling! AppBundle Talking Tom Cat Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!

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…

 One of the really exciting things about Windows Phone development is how enormously flexible it is. With Windows Phone 8, in addition to supporting native (C++) and managed (C#) development, the platform is the perfect place to develop apps using HTML5. Jeff Burtoft,  an HTML5…

In this session, Daniel Egan will take the learnings from the previous session(GameMaker 101) and build the beginnings of a platformer game using GameMaker: Studio for Windows 8. Game On Virtual Event On-Demand Videos: (Part 1) Welcome & GameMaker 101 (Part 2) Building your First Basic…

Get familiar with the GameMaker: Studio IDE from YoYo Games and the basic functions you can use to build your Windows 8 game easily and quickly. Game On Virtual Event On-Demand Videos: (Part 1) Welcome & GameMaker 101 (Part 2) Building your First Basic GameMaker Game (Part 3) Windows 8 Features…

Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net has created several beginner series for aspiring developers to learn programming languages in Visual Basic, C#, HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript and how to build apps for Windows Phone 7. Each series come with different concepts that are broken into their own…

Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is a hypervisor-based virtualization solution that makes it easy to run any number of operating systems inside separate windows on your Mac desktop. For developers, this means you can simultaneously run Xcode on Mac and Visual Studio on Windows 8. The Parallels window…

So Philips recently introduced their Hue Connected Bulbs: an easy-to-use set of LED light bulbs and Wi-Fi connected bridge which allows you to dynamically change the color of your home lighting using their iOS or Android app. What’s particularly cool is that the bridge has a web API which you can…

Jing Chan talks about his personal history as a developer and his experience creating CamWow.