Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games

Image Courtesy: http://watgames.codeplex.com/  The Windows Azure Toolkit(WAT) for Social Games is a set of guidance, samples, and tools that helps developers quickly get started building a casual or social game on Windows Azure. You can use use WAT for building Scalable Social gaming applications that utilizes the Power of Cloud – Windows Azure. WAT for […]

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Windows Phone Development–Choosers and Launchers

While doing windows phone application programming you will come across some requirements such as: a. “Selecting a contact from contact book” b. “Open up Camera, take a photo and upload or use the photo” c.  “Open a link in Web Browser” How you can achieve these typical tasks? Answer is pretty simple Windows Phone SDK […]

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Windows Phone Development–Background Agents in Windows Phone

Windows Phone came through long way after it’s initial release on Oct 21st 2010.  Windows Phone 7.5 update release called as “MANGO” brought lots of improvements including Multi tasking capabilities etc. With the introduction of multi-tasking ( it is not true multi tasking, but an efficient application switching which ensures that only one application will […]

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Windows Phone Marketplace is now Windows Phone Store

Welcome to new Windows Phone Store!! Today Windows Phone team has announced the changes to Windows Phone Marketplace and this has been officially renamed to “Windows Phone Store”.   Read the Windows Phone team announcement blog. Here is how the new phone store will look like the shiny new default home page Find my phone Just […]

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