Nick Randolph at BuildMobile has authored four comprehensive posts with code snippets about using several authentication models in Windows Phone apps.
When you submit your application for certification for Windows Phone Marketplace, you need to provide screenshots of your application. Customers see the screenshot of your application in the details page of the Windows Phone Marketplace catalog on the phone and in Zune software when they make a purchase.
App Look is nifty utility to reverse lookup a Windows Phone application from a known GUID or the actual application URI.
If there’s one thing that bugs a Windows Phone fan like me, it’s the lack of support of instant messengers. Of course, this would change with the upcoming Mango release.
Once you’ve built a great Windows Phone 7 app or game, AdDuplex is a brilliant way to promote the app and monetize it. You can promote your app for free by helping fellow developers promote theirs and when your app gains enough exposure, you can monetize it to make some extra bucks or reach your [...]
Microsoft Advertising SDK allows you to monetize your Windows Phone 7 applications and games by including ads from Microsoft Advertising. The ads shown in Windows Phone 7 applications and games are integrated with Microsoft pubCenter for real-time monitoring of how your ads are performing.
Speech recognition is one of the hidden gems on Windows Phone. Many of the things you do day-to-day on your phone can be accomplished using only your voice, saving you a lot of clicks and typing. Using your voice to make a phone call also works through a Bluetooth headset.
The Zune software works only on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. However, some tinkering around, and you’ll be able to install the Zune software on Windows Server 2008 R2.
If you are developing apps or games for Windows Phone 7, download the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 for mobile applications using the XNA Framework or Silverlight before registering your Apps on pubCenter, Microsoft Advertising’s solution for Windows Phone 7 Publishers and App Developers
Jeff Wilcox, the Development Engineer at Microsoft on the Silverlight Phone & Devices Team, shares few things that he’s learned while developing Windows Phone applications including an awesome 4th & Mayor.
Chances are that if you try to put pretty names for your default notebook in OneNote in the Office hub on your Windows Phone 7 device – Personal (Web) – and the default section – Unfiled Notes – you’d mess up the syncing with your Windows Live ID. At least, I did. More than once.
When you share or upload a photo from Windows Phone 7 to SkyDrive, it is stored at a Web-optimized resolution (720×540). This is not a configurable setting on the Windows Phone, so all photos will be stored at this resolution.