Category Archives: Windows Phone

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

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

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

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

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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