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Did you know that 46 out of the top 50 Apps on both iOS and Android are now on the windows phone market place. You can check out this article for more information: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57542103-94/windows-phone-8-users-can-access-46-of-top...

It was recently brought to my attention that knowing the design guidelines prior to building an application saves the developer a lot of time, since incorporating the design guidelines and certification requirements makes the application acceptance process...

If you want to start building apps for windows phone 8, you can get the jump start here: http://bit.ly/X7Xx1Z . Also you can find my presentation uploaded on: http://sdrv.ms/VqdQZD

So a week ago I was a building an application that was planned to be running on both windows 8 and windows phone 8 and since both of them are running on the same logic and both of them was written in C# and XAML it should be very easy. So after 2 days...

This is my first video tutorial for starting to build apps for windows phone 8. It is posted on my YouTube channel here: http://aka.ms/dhelmyWP I hope that you will benefit from it and I'll be waiting for your feedback.

We've been doing a combined demo in our dev camps recently, which is a shopping list application that works cross platform (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Android) with a Windows Azure Mobile Services backend. The source code is posted on GitHub: https...

  The Nigeria Events  If you attended our events in Nigeria you may have seen our team do a combined demo, which showed how you can develop a Windows 8 application, use the same logical layer with Windows phone 8 application. This was later...

Introduction If you haven’t checked out the ASP.net and Web Tools 2012.12 release, you should! It is a tooling refresh of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web, that extends the existing ASP.net runtime with a lot of exciting...

The Windows Phone 8 Emulator operates as a Hyper-V virtual machine on top of windows, and as a result requires Windows 8 Pro with at least 4 GB of RAM and a SLAT enabled CPU. If you have a machine which does not support SLAT, you can still use the SDK...

Find your country in the below list and check whether you can register a developer account in your country on the Windows Phone Dev center or not. Then, check the corresponding Payout; if it is set to Yes then your registered account support paid apps...

Hello friends, you'll find my presentation "Meet Windows Azure" presented at the Microsoft Kenya Developer Camp on Skydrive below: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E!107#!/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E...

I'm writing this post from Kenya, where I'm presenting Windows Azure this week at the #MSKenCamp . Be sure to follow the hashtag and @AfricaApps for updates on our whereabouts. Introduction In this post, we are going to deploy an Express Node.js...

Welcome to my second post, if you missed the first one you can find it here . I am writing this post from the windows surface RT , an amazing piece of hardware. Regarding the windows 8 designing, Microsoft is providing a portal with a lot of amazing...

After the successful event in Kenya, we continue in our mission to help African developers build the best apps. This time we are coming to Uganda. In the next week, you will have a chance to meet our team, learn about the latest stuff Microsoft has...

When and Where Every last Saturday of each month, the iHub is going to host the Kenya .NET User Group where developers meet to exchange ideas and listen to presentations by local and international industry experts. Why - 3 Great reasons to Attend...

Let’s get directly Into the Core of this Blog post, 1 st Get a Kinect For windows unit. 2 nd Download the SDK and the Toolkit which you will find here . 3 rd Play Around with the toolkit where you will find a lot of helpful resources and...

This blog is intended to show you how you can easily parse JSON strings in Windows Phone applications. If you are intending to reuse your parsed JSON across the project then go for the 1st Method, Otherwise if it is a one time usage, you can parse the...

We all know that the typical App today has a location component to it; if not, the need to grab data off the internet or simply a translation aspect seeking to reach out to the millions of diverse language speakers here in Africa. You made the right stop...

Today, software must meet your customers’ needs in an ever-changing landscape. New features must be released continuously, updates must be timely, and bug fixes cannot wait for version 2. That’s the reality in software development today, and...

First question that pops up in my mind is why should a business use Kinect , where is the added value to the company and How can Kinect Help your Business or startup to excel in the market and be the provider of the latest technology ? So I thought...

Windows Phone 8 SDK offers a set of predefined tasks that enable applications to access phone functionality (Calendar, Map, SMS, Camera and more) and perform common tasks such as saving appointments, downloading map data for offline usage, sharing a media...

Introduction I’ve been in this situation many times, I have an API that needs an authenticated user to access it, how can this problem be solved? You could pass the username and password of the user with each request, a horribly unsecure method...

YouTube channel I started posting video tutorials on YouTube under my channel here: http://aka.ms/sabbourazure 4Afrika Azure Champ Calls We also started a monthly Windows Azure champ call, which will also be recorded and posted to the channel...

This is My first video tutorial, in it I'm giving a small introduction about windows 8 and building a small demo application in C# and XAML that uses the WinRT APIs to connect with the camera. I hope that you like it and I'll be waiting for your comments...

Not all of us know what the future holds for Kinect, Actually kinect was not something that was planned to be productized as kinect for windows , but lets take a look in the Kinect Fusion, so basically Kinect Fusion pulls depth data that is generated...