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A lap around Windows Phone 8 SDK: file association – Part 1

Posted on November 26, 2012 by qmatteoq

One of the biggest limitations for Windows Phone developers was the impossibility to share data between applications. This wasn’t limited to third party apps, but also file types that are supported by native applications (just think about Office files) couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Async pack for Visual Studio 2012: why it’s useful also for Windows Phone 8 projects

Posted on November 19, 2012 by qmatteoq

Microsoft has recently released the Async Pack for Visual Studio 2012: it’s a very helpful package and it’s the successor of the old Async CTP that was available for Visual Studio 2010. Its purpose is to add support to the … Continue reading →

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Unit testing in Windows Phone 8 – Asynchronous operations and mocking

Posted on November 11, 2012 by qmatteoq

One of the most common scenarios to test are asynchronous operations: WinRT is heavily based on async methods, both in Windows 8 and in Windows Phone 8. Plus, thanks to the new async and await keywords, it’s now easier for … Continue reading →

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Unit testing in Windows Phone 8 – The basics

Posted on November 9, 2012 by qmatteoq

Unit testing in Windows Phone has never been really supported by Microsoft: the only semi-official way to do unit tests in Windows Phone 7 is using an adaptation of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework made by Jeff Wilcox. This library … Continue reading →

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Azure Mobile Services for Windows Phone 8

Posted on November 8, 2012 by qmatteoq

During the BUILD conference, right after the announcement of the public release of the Windows Phone 8 SDK, Microsoft has also announced, as expected, that Azure Mobile Services, that we’ve learned to use in the previous posts, are now compatible … Continue reading →

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