The German, French, Italian and Spanish of the Windows Phone Developer Tools (WPDT) are now available. You can go ahead and install them from here Below are some of the details around the configurations supported, steps to upgrade from an existing...

T he Windows Phone Developer Tools (WPDT) Beta has just released. You can install it from http://developer.windowsphone.com This version is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM. If you have Visual Studio 2010 RTM installed, the WPDT will automatically...

By default, when Visual Studio executes a smart device test run, it copies the test assemblies and all its dependent assemblies down to the device. However, there may be scenarios where you would want to deploy other files like some xml files or .sdf...

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184807.aspx talks of how to test private methods when working with Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2008. These steps are applicable to Smart Device Unit Testing as well. Let me spend some time discussing this. ...

Unit Testing for Smart Devices is one of the key features added as part of Orcas in the Smart Device Development front. This feature has been built upon the existing framework in Visual Studio that enables unit testing desktop projects. It should hopefully...

This is my first Blog and am pretty excited to get started. For now, let me be done with the introduction. I am a QA Lead in the Visual Studio for Devices team working out of the India Development Centre. I joined Microsoft and this team a...