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How to support Windows Phone 8 devices in a Windows Phone 7 application

As I’ve already highlighted in another blog post, Windows Phone 8 has introduced many new features; plus, lot of things have been changed under the hood: Microsoft has abandoned the old kernel, based on Window Mobile’s core, to introduce a … Continue reading

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Windows Phone and SQL Lite: what’s the current situation?

The last week I spoke at a Italian conference in Microsoft Italy called Windows Phone Developer Day about sharing code between Windows Phone and Windows 8. One of the topics was data access and how to share code to interact … Continue reading

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How to deal with WebView and overlaying elements in Windows 8

The WebView control is very useful to display HTML pages and elements into a Windows Store application. For example, I use in my blog’s application to display the content of a post, formatted to be easily read on a tablet … Continue reading

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Nokia Premium Developer Program

Nokia has recently announced a new initiative for Windows Phone developer that is really interesting. At the same price of a standard Windows Phone account for developers (which is 99 $) you will have access to the following benefits: A … Continue reading

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A lap around Windows Phone 8 SDK: file association – Part 2

In the previous post we started to take a deep look to one of the most interesting new features in Windows Phone 8: file association. The example we’re using in this tutorial is made by two applications: in the last … Continue reading

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