Ingestion is the process of testing, code signing, and publishing your application via Microsoft's App Hub to the Windows Phone Marketplace . In this blog post we’ll review three of the most common errors seen by developers when submitting their applications...

  A common problem in Windows Phone app design is the poor use of touch targets, i.e. the area of the screen which responds to user interaction (usually a tap). When designing on the emulator, this is easy to overlook as the mouse gives a very precise...

Fast Application Switching (FAS) is a new feature of Windows Phone 7.5 and provides an improved experience when the user is switching between applications. The application is no longer terminated when the user navigates away from the application. Instead...

As you can imagine, in the design team in Depth Partner Support we review hundreds of app designs every year, from all over the world, and from all kinds of different industries. Aside from knowing our RenRens and Immowelts from our Magic Seaweeds and...

An introduction is probably the right way to start; we are the “Windows Phone UK Centre of Excellence”. It’s obvious we are a Microsoft team, because no-one else uses long names like that! The team spent time looking for a more succinct...