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The article shows how to use reflection to create an app that can use the new tiles in Windows Phone 8, while still remaining compatible with Windows Phone 7.5 Introduction Windows Phone 8 as well as Windows Phone 7.8 features new Tile sizes. If you want to maintain an app that targets Windows...

This article explains how to Design WP apps using GRID helper. Introduction The main principle of Microsoft design language is simple, clean and disciplined design. Sounds good and simple but to achieve these traits a designer needs to be very careful and thoughtful while designing the application...

This page contains information and materials related to the design and tooling for Windows Phone, shared during the Windows Phone Designer Day in Sunnyvale, CA in Feb 2012. Introduction The objective of the day was to educate designers who already knew other mobile platforms on Metro UI, which...

This article explains how to create a searchable scrollable list, where the list items include images, which are also streamed from the list definition XML. Introduction This article shows how to create a searchable and scrollable list (with item icons) based on a definition in an XML file...

This article shows how to create databound application like World's Greatest Speeches for Windows Phone. This article also shows how to create Panorama type application for Windows Phone 7. Introduction In this Article, We will show how to create Windows Phone DataBound Application using...

This code example shows how to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone, covering how to create application primary and secondary tiles and how to update tiles data from Scheduled Task Agent and with Push Notification from server side with PHP. Note: This article was written for and has been...

This article explains how to create interesting, fun and useful augmented reality apps with real-time filters using GART (Geo Augmented Reality Toolkit), one of the best open source geo augmented reality libraries out there, with the Nokia Imaging SDK on Windows Phone 8. Note: This is...

Windows Phone 8 brings a lot of new features to developers and behind the scenes there are also some major improvements. The .NET framework 4.5 and the new C# compiler come with several major new features. Networked applications had to rely - in the past - on callbacks, but with the new asynchronous...

This article explains how to control a Sphero ball using Bluetooth on Windows Phone 8. Introduction Sphero is a ball than can be controlled by Bluetooth on Windows Phone 8 (and other mobile OS, using their respective SDKs ). The SDK allows you to control the lights, move the...

This article explains "from first principles" how to check for app updates from inside an app. If you just want to use the results of this discussion see Application update prompt using Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit . Introduction Windows Phone automatically checks when any apps...

This article describes how to set the WebBrowser control's viewport to match the device resolution using the GDR3 update. Introduction For some applications it is useful to create a full screen WebBrowser control and set the viewport's width and height equal to the phone's actual...

Note: This is an entry in the Nokia Imaging and Big UI Wiki Competition 2013Q4 . Most of us have been using the WP 7/8 SDK for quite some time. The Visual Studio WP8 SDK provides all the essential UI tools serving as a great IDE. We drag and drop elements and then run our application on...

With the release of Windows Phone 8 SDK, Microsoft introduces several changes and improvements to the Windows Phone localization and generalization framework. This guide will cover those changes as well as provide a complete overview on preparing a Windows phone 8 app for international markets. ...

This article explains how to add Pivot Item in a pivot dynamically in Windows Phone. Introduction This code example demonstrates how to add pivot item dynamically. The special thing in this article is that I have added a user control as pivot item. All the event of user control(pivot Item...

This sample shows how to connect a Windows Phone 8.0 app to Facebook, Google and Microsoft accounts. The main features: Login/Logout and an about page with feedback, share in social networks, review and share by email. Introduction This sample shows how to connect a Windows Phone 8.0 app to...

Introduction There is an explosion of smart mobile phones in market. And the need has become to support all the popular platforms like iOS, Android, WP8, Blackberry, etc. To write a platform specific application causes increase in efforts, resources and the cost factor. Cross Platform architecture...

This article explains how to create a Bluetooth connection that can be used in any page of a Windows Phone application. Overview The Dev Center documentation shows how to create and use a Bluetooth connection using a new StreamSocket . However in a real app you won't create a connection...

This article aims to briefly explain the current WP8 Bluetooth capabilities and later focuses on exploring the near future opportunities that a WP8 developer should keep in mind with regards to Bluetooth 4.0 and more specifically Bluetooth Low Energy feature. Warning: At time of writing...

This article explains how to Implement a Loyalty Program using Windows Phone Wallet. Introduction On Windows Phone 8 (WP8) we can very well integrate our own apps dealing with financial instruments and aspects. One of the wide use of Wallet will be seen in implementing loyalty programs by...

This article explains how to do a simple home automation project with a Windows Phone 8, an Arduino and a TV. Introduction In a previous article Windows Phone 8 communicating with Arduino using Bluetooth , I've shown how to implement a Windows Phone 8 application that communicates with...

In Windows Phone 8 we can distribute our apps as "beta". This allows us to publish our app without passing certification to a number of users identified by their LiveIDs, so they can test the app and sent feedback to us. Introduction This article discusses the importance of using...

This article explains how to optimize the performance of your signal processing algorithms, using the ARM Neon intrinsics. By spending a little bit of time manually optimizing your C++ code, you can get significant speed improvements for your image processing, audio enhancements, FFT, DCT,...

Winners Announced (04 Jan 2013): Congratulations to all our Windows Phone 8 Wiki Competition winners, listed below . The Winners Due to the large number of very good articles from a wide range of participants judging has taken a while - here are the winners! The following winners were...

This article explains how to create a new Cocos2d-x project for Windows Phone 8. Archived: This article is archived because it is not considered relevant for third-party developers creating commercial solutions today. If you think this article is still relevant, let us know by adding...

This article demonstrates how to implement Steganography in Windows Phone. المقدمة الستيغانوغرافي هو أسلوب لإخفاء البيانات داخل البيانات . في هذه المقالة سوف نعرض كيفية تشفير و فك التشفير الرسائل النصية داخل الصور. وسيكون المستخدم قادرا على تشفير النص في صورة، وسوف تكون قادر على فك تشفير...