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Silverlight and Windows Phone SDK

We recently released an update to the Windows Phone SDK that provides extra tools and features for...

Date: 02/29/2012

It was recently brought to my attention that we have done a poor job of evangelizing the Windows...

Date: 02/01/2012

We recently made a refresh of the Windows Phone documentation and samples. We've updated several...

Date: 12/20/2011

Silverlight 5 supports multiple playback rates. When the playback rate is set to a rate that does...

Date: 12/19/2011

If you are a Windows Phone developer, there are some properties offered on the Binding object in...

Date: 12/16/2011

Silverlight 5 has released! Here's the link to download the Silverlight 5 tools. Silverlight 5...

Date: 12/09/2011

If you’ve tried unsuccessfully to use the HyperlinkButton control or the Hyperlink type in your...

Date: 10/25/2011

The Windows Phone Mango updates are going out to handsets, and the RTM version of the Mango SDK is...

Date: 09/28/2011

One of the new features in Silverlight 5 RC is the ability to call native code including Win32 APIs...

Date: 09/27/2011

Application restricted media (ARM) is new feature in Silverlight 5 RC that enables content providers...

Date: 09/07/2011

The SL5 RC has released and you can now download the tools here. This is an exciting release and...

Date: 09/01/2011

Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RC is now available. You can use this version of the tools to create Windows...

Date: 08/23/2011

Not only does Mango support Silverlight 4, there are also numerous updates and improvements to...

Date: 07/22/2011

The Mango Windows Phone Developer Tools Windows Phone SDK Beta2 released today (the tools have been...

Date: 06/29/2011

I'm happy to report that the Fuel Tracker sample is now available in Visual Basic as well as C#....

Date: 06/20/2011

Windows Phone 7 includes Panorama and Pivot controls that you can use to display controls and data...

Date: 05/25/2011

The Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta released today. Download them here. The tools enable...

Date: 05/24/2011

Silverlight 5 Beta introduces a new ICustomTypeProvider interface that enables data binding to...

Date: 04/26/2011

The Silverlight 4 documentation has been updated--both online MSDN docs and the offline CHM. The CHM...

Date: 04/22/2011

So I started work on a sample today and decided I wanted to use a Pivot control. I created a new...

Date: 04/15/2011

We’ve got apps, and we’ve got chms. Well, more specifically, a chm for Silverlight 5...

Date: 04/13/2011

Happy Silverlight 5 Beta day! The biggest additions to Silverlight 5 are certainly the support for...

Date: 04/13/2011

There are currently no breaking changes for Silverlight 5 Beta to report. See also Silverlight...

Date: 04/13/2011

If you’re planning on attending MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas and if you own a Windows...

Date: 04/07/2011

The Microsoft game folks just released a tutorial that will guide you through the creation of a...

Date: 04/05/2011

If you are a C#/.NET developer who wants to learn the basics of phone application development using...

Date: 03/29/2011

Hey Silverlight people! So I just uploaded a video that takes you from from zero to an Azure-hosted,...

Date: 03/04/2011

Yesterday the toolkit team pushed out an update to the Windows Phone Toolkit. You can get the...

Date: 02/18/2011

Check ou the new Windows Phone 7 development articles which are aimed at guiding you through all the...

Date: 02/11/2011

A new version of the Windows Phone Developer tools is now available on the Download Center. Among...

Date: 02/07/2011

As Cheryl blogged last week, she and I have been working with a team of others to develop a Windows...

Date: 12/17/2010

Recently I’ve been working on a cross-group effort to create some content for getting folks started...

Date: 12/10/2010

We are doing a study to see how we are doing with our documentation. Your input will inform and...

Date: 12/03/2010

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Date: 11/12/2010

When you create a Silverlight-based application for deployment to the web, the last thing you...

Date: 11/08/2010

In an attempt to close the loop on getting data into Silverlight, we’ve added a couple of new...

Date: 11/05/2010

Imagine my surprise when I browsed to the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit page on Codeplex and...

Date: 11/02/2010

Recently I’ve worked on adapting a popular Windows Phone 7 performance whitepaper for easier...

Date: 10/11/2010

So in case you are in the habit of navigating the MSDN table of contents to locate the Silverlight...

Date: 09/27/2010

So as these things usually go, while doing something completely unrelated to the application I...

Date: 09/16/2010

There's a new Silverlight Visual Effects QuickStart that was just published. This offers quick...

Date: 09/07/2010

Recently, there was an article in EWeek about the various platforms for Rich Internet Application...

Date: 09/03/2010

Hot off the press QuickStart on WCF RIA Services. Lots of screenshots and code. Should be pretty...

Date: 09/02/2010

Accessibility is about making your applications usable by people with limitations that prevent or...

Date: 09/01/2010

So I think I’ve mentioned before I have been working on a Windows Phone 7 application. It’s been a...

Date: 08/27/2010

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