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Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator (Featured Article)

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Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator by joaocardoso

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This week’s featured article is highly beneficial to many developers since simply not yet all developers have had the possibility to upgrade to Windows 8

It explains how to create a Windows 8 Virtual Machine using VMWare software and install the Windows Phone 8 SDK on Windows 8 running on Virtual Machine. It also explains how to enable Hyper-V and Windows Phone 8 emulator.

Read the article and begin your journey towards developing Windows Phone 8 apps.

Series 40 UI design usability testing webinar – companion article (Featured Article)

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Series 40 UI design usability testing webinar – companion article by Krebbix

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This article is companion for the Debug your design for Series 40 Full Touch webinars held in December 2012. It covers both sessions: 11th and 12th December 2012.

The webinar and the wiki article are a great starting point if you’re not a UI design expert. Check out Series 40 UI design library for more advanced information and resources.

Draggable markers with Windows Phone maps API (Featured Article)

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Draggable markers with Windows Phone maps API by symbianyucca

This week’s featured article illustrates draggable markers with Windows Phone maps API.

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The complete source code for the example illustrated in the article can be found from Windows Phone 8 Maps examples project, the code used here is implemented for example in DraggableMarker and MapMarkers examples.

Series 40 UX checklist webinar – companion article (Featured Article)

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Series 40 UX checklist webinar – companion article by Krebbix

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This article is a companion for the UX Checklist for Series 40 Full Touch webinars held in October and November 2012. It covers both sessions: 31st October 2012 and 1st November 2012.

This webinar provides pointers you can use to perform a basic user experience (UX) check of your Series 40 full-touch app, even if you have no formal experience in UX design. In it we review a list of some of the worst UX mistakes that we found in real-world app testing, and provide some specific solutions to these problems.

Drawing shapes with Windows Phone maps API (Featured Article)

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Drawing shapes with Windows Phone maps API by symbianyucca

LumiaMaps.pngThis week’s featured article shows how to draw shape objects on a map in Windows Phone applications. Generally you can add polylines, polygons and MapOverlay objects onto the map, however there are no predefined shapes which could be drawn into the map.

The complete source code for the example illustrated in this article can be found from Windows Phone 8 Maps Examples project, the code used here is implemented for example in MoreMapContent example inside that project.

Please try out Windows Phone 8 Maps Examples project and let us know how you like it.

Series 40 UI design for monetization enablers webinar – companion article (Featured Article)

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Series 40 UI design for monetization enablers webinar – companion article by Krebbix

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This article is companion for the UI design for monetisation enablers for Series 40 Full Touch webinars held in November 2012. It covers both sessions: 13th and 14th November 2012.

How you design and present monetisation interactions requires as much attention to user experience as does the rest of your app. If you use in-app ads or in-app purchasing, this UX webinar is for you.

The webinar and the wiki article are a great starting point if you’re not a UI design expert. Check out Series 40 UI design library for more advanced information and resources.

Drag & Drop in Windows Phone (Featured Article)

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Drag & Drop in Windows Phone by pavan.pareta

This week’s featured article illustrates how to use Interaction Behaviors API to Drag & Drop objects in Windows Phone, with an example. The example in the article implements the drag’n’drop sequences using the Interaction Behaviors API.

The article covers the use of this API on both – traditional UI components like TextBlock, Image, etc. as well as UI elements like drawing objects like Rectangle, Ellipse, Path, etc.

Read the article and let us know how useful it was to you!

Silverlight animation with Expression Blend (and no code) (Featured Article)

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Silverlight animation with Expression Blend (and no code) by izinin

Microsoft Expression Blend (included in the Windows Phone SDK) is a powerful visual design tool for making visible elements and effects in Silverlight applications. It can be used simultaneously with Visual Studio on the same opened project – modifications made in either tool become immediately available in other.

This tutorial shows how to create powerful object animation using Microsoft Expression Blend.

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Read the article for more information: Silverlight animation with Expression Blend (and no code)

Windows Phone Native C++ and DirectX – First Direct3D App, setting up Touch and Sensors (Featured Article)

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Windows Phone Native C++ and DirectX – First Direct3D App, setting up Touch and Sensors by jumantyn

This week’s featured article shows us the basic steps of creating a first native Direct3D app. We take a look at the files created in the project template and also show you how to utilize touch input and Windows Phone sensors i.e. accelerometer and gyroscope.

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What’s new in Windows Phone 8 (Featured Article)

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What’s new in Windows Phone 8 by Justin.Angel

WhatsNewWP8 18 Sample lock screen with background image text and counters.pngWith the Windows Phone 8 release, Microsoft also announced the Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers and made it available last week at the //build/ event. The new SDK brings many new and advanced APIs for developers. These APIs not only simplify the coding of features you may already be adding to your Windows Phone apps, but also offers many new ones too. This article will introduce you to the most significant API additions and changes.

The article is authored by our chief engineer Justin.Angel and is the most comprehensive technical overview of Windows Phone 8 currently available. This joins four other new WP8-specific articles and the 350+ compatible articles we already had.

Please read the article and let us know how it helped you. If you already started developing apps, examples or even small code snippets with the new SDK, you can publish them to the Wiki to participate in the WP8 Wiki contest we are running. Read the complete rules for the contest here.