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So I have been promoting the APPortunity Sweepstakes by Microsoft for a while now and have had lots of developers enter the sweepstakes and today one of the developers who entered the sweepstakes via my link won the Grand Prize of a cool $1,000 in cash...

If you've been on the fence about writing apps for Windows Phone, or you've dabbled in it but need that extra help or push to make it, or if you made the app but just haven't launched it in the store, or even if you have apps in other stores and want...

So you've been toiling around until the wee hours of the night every day to ensure there are no bugs in your app. You've listened to your users and updated your apps accordingly. You made your app stand above your competition! Well, now it is time to...

Who wants to win a $1000 just for building a Windows Phone or Windows 8 app? I hear a lot of voices saying "I do!" Well, you've come to the right place. Now you can enter to win one of 3 prizes each month $1000, $500 and $250 from Feb-1 to Jun-30, 2013...

This is a very common scenario most developers stumble across - they are building an app for Windows Phone and have to target all 3 screen resolutions available with Windows Phone 8. The 3 screen resolutions for your reference are: WVGA - 480x800 or 800x480...

Here's the update you all have been waiting for! In this blog post, I will mention the criteria to qualify to get a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone from me. * If you write 1 new app for Windows Phone, you can get a brand new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone device...

I am a Nokia Developer Ambassador, and I have been asked in countless number of emails how to get a device to test apps on, how to get an account for Windows Phone Dev Center, how to get a free phone, and the list goes on... I will try and answer all...

So you've started your Windows 8 app development journey. All things are going smooth until one day you hit this error when trying to run/debug your app. The error says "Error: DEP0700: Registration of the app failed. An internal error occurred with error...

Let me formally introduce myself first for new followers. My name is Paras Wadehra and I am a Nokia Developer Ambassador . Now you may be saying to yourself "Wait a minute, I have no idea what that means!" Hold on to your reins and I will explain it all...

The Windows Phone 8 SDK was announced a few moments ago at BUILD. It can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471 If you have any questions about any features in the Windows Phone 8 SDK, do not hesitate to ask...

I am very pleased to inform that my app, Dictionary , has been nominated as one of the best apps on the Windows Phone platform in the Best Educational App category in the #WPAppAwards being hosted by WP7 App List. Please vote for the app at http://appawards...

Here's my first Windows Phone 7 App - http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=88c64ebe-e254-e011-854c-00237de2db9e Please download and rate. I promise more apps will come soon! You can either click on the link above or alternatively...

If you have created a SSIS Package in SQL Server and you use a FTP Task to upload a file to a FTP server and encounter the error " An error occurred in the requested FTP operation. Detailed error description: 200 Switching to Binary mode. 553 Could not...

While using a client to connect and fetch data from a WCF service, you may encounter an error and see the following message displayed on the screen: Error: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information...

Today Microsoft announced the beta release of Windows 7 and the availability of the new version of Windows Live. The beta of Windows is on schedule and feature complete. The information that tens of millions of customers shared with Microsoft guided...

Microsoft has decided to keep the codename Windows 7 as the final name for it's latest release of Windows. Mike Nash, made the announcement on the Windows Vista Blog saying "Now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next...

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars: ...

The next generation of Zune was launched earlier this week. This release combines two very important things: v A free software-and-services update, which will work on any of the existing Zune family of devices, as well as the new devices we are bringing...

Microsoft announced that it is slashing prices of its flagship gaming device, XBOX 360, in the US. This will take the price of the basic model down to $199, approximately $50 cheaper than Nintendo Wii. It said that prices for the other Xbox models will...

The IE team launched IE8 Beta 2 which can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . You can watch videos of IE8 at http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&user=-3161786097973413883 and http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer...

Microsoft has introduced new features in .NET with their Service Pack 1 (SP1) release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Most of the stuff included in the service pack releases is new features and functionality rather than bug fixes and...

Avenue A | Razorfish , one of the world’s largest digital marketing companies, and Pluck Corp ., a recognized leader in social media technology, today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to develop and market the industry’s first...

Microsoft reached another milestone today with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V , the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. The nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version...

The XNA team has announced Dream-Build-Play 2008 , a global competition to see who can create the best game for the Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio 2.0. This year’s participants will be competing for $75,000 in prizes and the bragging rights to say their...

The 2nd CTP for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 3.5 was released recently. Download the Parallel Extensions June 2008 CTP Parallel Extensions simplifies development by providing library-based support for introducing concurrency into...