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This article lists Windows Phone diagnostic tools. Windows Phone 8 The following diagnostic tools are available for Windows Phone (feel free to extend the list): WinPhone Info Free - detailed information including device, battery, memory, media, miscellaneous, network, region, sensors...

This article explains how to create an Blob Counter custom effect. Introduction Original Otsu Threshold + Blob Counter Source code Full source code for the BlobCounter custom effect is provided below (toggle "Expand"...

This article lists commercial apps that use the Nokia Imaging SDK . Introduction The Nokia Imaging SDK is a powerful library of image manipulation tools, which Nokia uses to create its own imaging applications (like Creative Studio ). We've made the SDK available for other developers to...

This article provides an overview of the techniques available for analysing the memory use of Windows Phone apps. Windows Phone Memory Profiler Run the Windows Phone Memory Profiler to get a time-axis graph of application memory consumption, a breakdown of important events (garbage collection...

This article describes the test app(s) used to view many of the community contributed Category:Nokia Imaging SDK Custom Effects , and explains how to use it to view your own custom filters on a physical device or the emulator. Introduction This article will walk you through the process of...

This article explains how to accelerate development time of WP7 apps and quickly publish to marketplace Introduction You have a great app idea, now how do you get it out to the masses quickly? This article discusses a few methods to accelerate the time to deploy your application to the marketplace...

While many bugs are caught during development, nothing tests an app as much as real-world testing on a deployed application. At this point it is important to be able to get debug information back from the end-user. This article collects links to other public topics on how to catch unhandled exceptions...

This article is intended to expose relevant points of guidance for those who want to test and submit applications on Windows Phone store. Introduction The development of a Windows Phone application is in practice where a professional spends more time, however, nowadays the design of the UI and...

This article provides tips and guidance for how to run a successful beta test on Windows Phone. Introduction Consumers are extremely effective testers, and increasingly unforgiving of poorly behaving apps. As a negative rating in the early stages can have a lasting effect on the success of...

This article shows how to use the Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework to test Windows Phone apps for Windows Phone 8 (and later). Introduction Unit testing divides apps into independent discrete units and validates them all against expected values for sample data. This sort of testing...

This article explains how to add Flurry Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 or Windows Phone 8 app. Introduction The Flurry Analytics Agent for Windows Phone allows you to track the usage and behavior of your Windows Phone application on users' phones for viewing in the Flurry Analytics system...

This article explains how to use HockeyApp SDK to get real time crash reports from your beta/live Windows Phone apps. Introduction HockeyApp is a tool which provides the detailed real-time crash reporting for your Windows Phone apps. It provides information including the file name, method...

This article lists few tips to test your background agents working. Introduction During development of scheduled tasks/background agents you can call ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest() to allow you to run your agent more regularly than the 30 minutes allowed in production, and also call...

The advent of Windows Phone 8.1 poses a problem to long-time Windows Phone developers - Visual Studio 2013 does not support WP 7 anymore and Visual Studio 2012 does not support WP 8.1 yet. This article shows a way out of that dilemma. Introduction Up until now, developers of Windows Phone 7...

This article explains how to use an enum als source for a listview through MVVM binding even with language translation Introduction Sometimes we want the user to make a simple selection based upon a list of items. Often this list of items represents an enum in our code, but like you know,...

This code example shows how to launch the Phone app using PhoneCallTaskAPI in Windows Phone. Note: In contrast to Symbian, Windows Phone does not allow you to make calls "directly" from your own app, or to monitor for and connect to incoming calls. As soon as phone call initiation...

This article explains how to create NFC tags that launch an app and work on other platforms too. Introduction For an app developer, one of the most important use cases of NFC is to let users easily discover and launch your app: Discover: attract new potential customers – they see...

This article demonstrates how to make HTTP requests using both WebClient and HttpWebRequest and waiting for their completion. Introduction One of the most important aspects of smartphones is connectivity and data management. Due to the constraints of processing power and available storage...

This article explains different ways of launching Windows Phone 8 apps using NFC and Proximity APIs. Introduction Launching your own app via NFC is one of the most important use cases for developers – after all, you want your users to discover your app, have it on the screen whenever it could...

This article demonstrate the different ways to check the Network Connectivity in the application. Introduction Many a times we might have come across to a situation where we need to check the network connectivity in the application. In this article we will perform few steps to check the connectivity...

This article explains how to implement a simplistic HTTP server that is able to run on Windows Phone 8 or later. This can be used to export files or to provide a platform independent UI on a user's PC. Introduction This sample consists mainly of a HttpServer class that includes all functionality...

This article explains how to create a protocol handler for Windows Phone 8, using the particular example of handling sms: links (as found, for example, in NFC tags). Introduction One popular use case for NFC is the implementation of the "tap to call a taxi" scenario. A predefined...

This article explains how to send an SMS in a Windows Phone application. Introduction This code example shows how to send an SMS in a Windows Phone app. The code example uses the SmsComposeTask (a type of Launcher ) to open the native device SMS editor and give the user an option to send...

This code example introduces the FacebookChat Library and shows how it can be used to create a Facebook chat client application. Introduction This article introduces the FacebookChat Library , a C# library that allows you to connect to and use the Facebook Chat API (which presents an XMPP...

This article shows you how can send emails from your Azure Mobile Service (directly or app-initiated) using the SendGrid web service. Introduction SendGrid is a cloud-based email service that provides reliable email delivery, scalability, and real-time analytics, along with flexible APIs...