SDK for Windows Phone 8 is Now Available

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Great news for all the mobile developers out there that have been waiting patiently, and even for those that haven’t been so patient. At the Build 2012 conference today, Microsoft has officially released the software development kit (SDK) for Windows Phone 8. The SDK provides developers with the tools required to develop apps and games [...]

Aviary Brings Photo Editing SDK to Windows Phone

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While one of the most common uses of mobile phones today is photo-taking, most applications that leverage a camera typically work from a “take-it-and-send-it” perspective. For those of us who are “photographically-challenged”, be it due to insufficient or poor photography skills (count me into the latter category), adding photo editing into an application workflow would [...]

How To Deploy XAP Files to a Windows Phone Device

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XAP files are the modern version of the CAB files we used to have back in the Windows Mobile days. Basically, a XAP file is the complied installation file for a Silverlight application. Typically, you would never need to copy this to your device, as you would simply download the application directly from the marketplace. [...]