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Have an app? Need a device for testing? YOU GOT IT!!!
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Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices WHAT IS A PUBLIC SECTOR APP ? We Still Have Devices Ready To Test Your Apps! This Device Loan Program consists of TWO simple options: ...
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Build a Companion WP8 App for My Windows 8 App
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Based on work from Andrew Byrne, Senior Programming Writer, Windows Phone, and Doug Rothaus, Senior Programming Writer, Windows and other sources. VALUE PROPOSITION FOR DEVELOPERS Windows Phone 8 is built on the same shared core as Windows 8, and this...
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Windows 8 Journey: Getting ready for app development with tools and templates
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Now it's time to begin app development!!! Making great Windows Store apps involves understanding the key traits of a great Windows Store app . Take time to review the details of these traits in depth. This documentation helps you get set up with tools...
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Hack for Good! Join us at the VIP Hackathon on April 30, 2012 - DC - Register today! http://viphackathon.eventbrite.com/
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http://viphackathon.eventbrite.com/ more info here G E T F-R-E-E Phone: Tools , Devices Cloud: Tools , Account Client: WebMatrix Resources: Infokit Apps Ideas: Ideas
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CA MOBILE GOVERNMENT 2013: Connecting the Community
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UPDATE: Registration website is now online Microsoft DPE Public Sector is a proud sponsor of CA Mobile Government 2013 Helping California Government Leverage Mobile Technology Would your company like to become part of the most exciting conference to be...
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building an APP?-we have a device for THAT!
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Devices, Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices Quick, what is the largest enterprise in the world? – Yes! Government… but at Microsoft it gets even bigger: Public Sector - which also includes...
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Windows 8 Journey: Jump Start Your App Design
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When thinking about building a new app for Windows 8 (or porting one), it is important to fully embrace the Windows experience. Through the bold use of colors, typography and motion, the Windows experience brings a fresh new approach to user experiences...
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FREE Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools
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A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity. Quick Tasks, Power Commands, Color Printing and much more… Download from the Visual Studio Gallery . RE-IMAGINE EVERYTHING! Free Trial Azure Download...
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Windows Phone Power Tool (Now for WP8)
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This is definitely a must have in our arsenal of Windows Phone 7.5/8 tools… This tool allows you to connect to a multitude of emulators as well as a device. It allows you: to side load apps, and updates uninstall, launch and kill apps by name manipulate...
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Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud
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This guide provides an end-to-end walkthrough of how to create an advanced Windows Phone 7.5 app that integrates with remote Windows Azure-based services. The guide can help you understand how to implement individual features for Windows Phone 7.5 and...
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Bring It On iPhone/Android!!!
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W hat does it take to port you iPhone/Android Public Sector app to Windows Phone ? The Bring it On iPhone/Android series will answer these and other questions. Next Week on April 24th @2PM we will introduce the series in preparation for our...
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Windows 8 Journey: Writing Code your way
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Crank out Visual Studio 2012!!!! As you begin coding a beautiful, immersive Windows 8 app, you will think about some key considerations highlighted in this video , including ensuring that your app runs harmoniously on multiple form factors and devices...
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Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services
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Approximately six months ago the Azure team released the Azure Mobile Services. The one thing missing all along has been support for Android. This has changed and now the cloud service offers a complete suite of services and tools for four platforms:...
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Windows Phone 8: Using the Speech API
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Most people would agree that speech can be the ultimate input mechanism. Windows Phone demonstrated this: many of the first party experiences could be driven by speech in our first two releases. In WP8, we've made speech extensible, and given you the...
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Five Ways to Ruin Your Next Mobile App Launch
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This short article from BuildMobile.com outlines five ways developers can ruin their next mobile product launch. It isn't known how many mobile projects fail; like anything in life only a handful of anything make it to glory. This article helps you avoid...
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Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part I
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Next: Part I, Session I DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD HAVE A NOKIA LUMIA 800 TO TEST YOUR APPS I n January of 2002 Bill Gates introduced Trustworthy Computing to Microsoft and in doing so redefined the whole...
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WINDOWS PHONE MYTH BUSTER
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Seven Windows Phone 7.5 Myths - BUSTED ! Seven Windows Phone myths addressed on this article from carphonewarehouse.com The hardware is under-powered and the phones are slow: not true There aren’t any apps: 50,000 and counting There aren’t any free apps...
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TEST DEVICES for Government, Education, and Healthcare APPS
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Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices WHAT IS A PUBLIC SECTOR APP ? We Still Have Devices Ready To Test Your Apps! This Device Loan Program consists of TWO simple options: For Government Developer...
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Let’s Build Something Mobile: THIS AIN’T APRIL FOOLS’
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FOR APRIL We have t w o s e s s i o n s Session 1 : April 3rd REGISTER > April 3, 2012 | 11:00AM-12:30PM EDT Fast Track Your First App During this workshop, you’ll be exposed to the basics of creating a Windows Phone App and...
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Windows 8 Journey: Asynchronous programming and why it's important to your app
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Are you developing an app that will be sending and receiving data from the Internet? Or will it be displaying a message or working with the file system? Learn more about when asynchronous programming is needed to help your apps remain responsive as they...
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Porting Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 (Metro)
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Excellent MSDN article covering the porting process for Windows Phone 7.x apps to Windows 8. IT COVERS: Preparing to port a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app Five considerations before beginning the porting process General porting process Nine easy steps...
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Connecting to a Local Web Service from WP8 Emulator
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This article is on MSDN and it is very timely and relevant. It contains the following sections. Quick solution Setting up projects to demonstrate the problem and the solution Reconfiguring the solution when hosting the service with IIS Express Reconfiguring...
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HOL Machine Configuration
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What You Would Need The HOL sessions are BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Therefore you MUST have the environment configured prior to the event. If you are already running Windows 8 you are half way there. Otherwise, you have to configure it. This could...
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L|B|S|M – If You Haven’t…
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THIS IS IT! The last of our series… If you have already attended or don’t need to attend because you are already deep into coding… THEN please share this blog entry with your peers and development circle of influence! SERIES: LET’S BUILD SOMETHING MOBILE...
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the people hackathon
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THE ! event of the year. Where citizens and developers will come together to build Mobile America This is a hackathon inspired by America itself. It is an event of the people by the people! Are you a concerned citizen with ideas on how technology could...
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