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XAML Spy is Now Free
First Floor Software, makers of XAML Spy, is now offering a free version of their flagship product. Known as XAML Spy Express, this product allows developers to browse the visual tree of a running WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, or Windows Store application.
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Developers Voice on Mobile Application Scenarios
The recently conducted survey among 1300 Windows desktop application developers by Embarcadero Technologies measured the taste of developers from across the world. The survey recorded the favourite platform and tools among the respondents.
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RadImageEditor Gets Windows Phone 7 and Text Editing Support
Telerik has released RadImageEditor Q2 2013 with support for Windows Phone 7 based on the developer feedback in adddition to text editing functionality.
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Microsoft launches Windows Phone App Studio Beta
Today, Microsoft launched a beta version of Windows Phone App Studio, a completely web-based tool to create applications for Windows Phone. App Studio lets developers design applications by applying given templates and plug-ins and is even suited for users with modest development skills.
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Nokia Imaging SDK with Support for Effects, Filters, Smart Camera, Auto Enhance and RAJPEG
Nokia recently released an Imaging SDK for Windows Phone 8 with 50 pre defined effects, filters including support for smart camera, simple auto enhance, frame, RAJPEG with patented JPEG technology including the ability to enhance the speed and memory performance of mobile apps.
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Private App Stores for Windows Phone and WinRT
Private distribution of applications is possible for both WinRT and Windows Phone 8, but the experience is very different for the two platforms. Mobile devices cost 300 USD per year per company, while WinRT costs 3,000 for the first 100 computers or fraction thereof.
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Evaluating Porting Efforts with Xamarin Mobility Scanner
Xamarin has announced the availability of Xamarin Mobility Scanner, a free online service for scanning .NET libraries in order to evaluate the effort needed to port them to Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows Store.
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Portable Compression Libraries for .NET 4.5, Windows Store and Windows Phone
Microsoft has released a beta of a new portable library called Bcl.Compression that adds support for zip archives and compress streams (i.e. deflate and gzip) for the Portable Http Client. Unfortunately it requires a native library so Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.x developers are out of luck.
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API Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone
First Floor Software has just released an updated version of their Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone. These updated lists make it easy to see what classes and method are available when moving code from one platform to another.
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Windows Azure Extends their MBaaS with Custom APIs and Git Support
Shortly after Google announced their Mobile Backend Starter for Android applications, Microsoft has announced the extension of their Azure mobile services adding support for Custom APIs, Git, NPM, Android Push Notifications, and a free SQL DB.
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SeeTest Adds Support for Windows Phone 8
SeeTest, a testing tool developed by Experitest has been updated with an ability to test Windows Phone 8 applications in addition to iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian.
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A Portable HTTP Client for .NET
Until recently, one of the problems with sharing code across .NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Windows Store is the inability to make HTTP requests. Each framework supports one or more HTTP clients, but they are incompatible each other at an API level. The Portable HTTP Client package adds an adapter to paper over these differences.
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Chart for Windows Phone Q1 2013 SP1 with Multiple Axes, Axis Alignment, Annotations and Empty Values
Telerik recently released updates for Chart for Windows Phone Q1 2013 SP1 with support for multiple axes, axis alignment, annotations and empty values including the ability to display dates using Calendar control in additional languages.
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Phil Japikse on Telerik DevTools for .NET Q2 2013
Telerik has announced the roadmap for DevTools for .NET Q2 2013 which includes addition of new controls and features to their Ajax, Windows Forms, Reporting, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 product suites.
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Integrate BarCodes into Windows Phone Apps
RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2013 includes components to generate and integrate bar codes into Windows Phone 7 and 8 apps.