Yes VB Developers, you may develop apps for Windows Phone 7

The biggest wish/request from the WP7 Dev Community for Windows Phone 7 Tools and platform has been granted: You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. Provided in this ... Read more »

Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – RTM Refresh

Now the Windows Phone 7 SDK went RTM, the Windows Phone Training Kit for developers also got updated to the RTM version of the tools. Due to the size of the Training Kit, and ... Read more »

Windows Phone Marketplace App Categories

Microsoft has finalized the list of categories of apps it will offer on its Windows Phone Marketplace. App categories organize applications so that users can more easily find what they are looking for. For ... Read more »

Final release of Windows Phone Developer Tools on September 16

In our article about Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training we already mentioned that there won’t be any localized training provided until the final release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. At that time ... Read more »

Checking in on Facebook Places (and the Bing Maps experience)

Facebook Places, from all accounts, is going to be quite a big deal, and Bing Maps is right in the center of it all, running the maps on Facebook.com.  We’ve noticed a few of ... Read more »

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training

Of course the big news this week was the WL 2011 beta refresh, which, unfortunately, I didn’t get to install until yesterday because of hardware problems (had to install new GPU). But there was ... Read more »

Bing: iPhone App Mania indeed

Last we heard the Bing for iPhone app was at about 4.3 million downloads (should be significantly more than that by now, is there a way to track iPhone app downloads?), and based on ... Read more »

Safari, Street Slide, games, and more: the Bing roundup post

Bing continues to (dare we say it?) innovate, and while some of the improvements aren’t earth-shattering, and indeed some bits of news aren’t even included in Bing (yet), we wanted to make sure to ... Read more »

Comparison shopping with the Bing iPhone App

The latest version of the Bing for iPhone (and iPod Touch) app features visual scanning of barcodes and cover art. What would you do with that you say? Well, how about compare prices or ... Read more »

Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – Beta Refresh

The Windows Phone Developer Tools went beta, and that could only mean that there would also be a Beta Refresh of the Training Kit. You can download a local copy of the training kit, ... Read more »