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Introducing Windows Phone SDK 8.0

October 30, 2012 Oct 30, 2012 10/30/12
Visual Studio Blog
It gives us great pleasure to announce that today at //build/ we launched the Windows Phone 8 development story. We have enhanced the existing Visual Studio 2012 developer tools to support development of Windows Phone 8 apps optimized for a variety of resolutions and hardware, introduced ability to simulate and monitor the impact of real life ...

High school students at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment build a WP application from scratch in a week

August 17, 2011 Aug 17, 2011 08/17/11
Visual Studio Blog
By Alice LeeDeveloping a full-fledged Windows Phone app in one week – that’s pretty ambitious, right?Last week, at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE)’s weekly Summer Cyber Camp, a team of talented high and middle school students set out to do just that. I followed them for one week, documenting the process of ...