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4/5/2012
We are pleased to announce that the official WindowsPhoneGeek.com Windows Phone application is now available on the Marketplace and can be downloaded for FREE: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=34a64bd8-3bc5-4438-91c4-1f0c072e8524
We are pleased to announce that our new Windows Phone 8 Development Newssection is now live! There you can find the latest Windows 8 development articles, tips, samples and more collected from key community blogs, official Microsoft blogs, twitter, etc. Similar to the Windows Phone Dev News section, we will post all news regularly. You can also subscribe to the new Windows 8 Dev News Feed:http://windowsphonegeek.com/windows-8-news-feed
As always, any feedback, suggestions or comment that you might have are most welcome!
1/30/2012
During the last 24 hours we were doing some maintenance on WindowsPhoneGeek.com which affected our Top Dev Tools section. That is why this section was not working properly during that time.
We are pleased to announce that this maintenance is now finished and WindowsPhoneGeek.com and the TopDevTools section in particular are now working properly again.
1/25/2012
We are happy to announce that our new website www.WPAppInfo.com is now live. It will be the new home of the AppHub section that was previously a part of WindowsPhoneGeek.com.
By doing this we are now able to focus WindowsPhoneGeek.com exclusively on great Windows Phone development content. At the same time, Windows Phone developers can now use their GeekPoints to promote their apps directly to users. 
During this transition the following sections will be moved completely to WPAppInfo.com
- App Reviews
- App News
- App Videos
- Marketplace browsing (application profiles, top apps, latest apps, search)
We at WindowsPhoneGeek.com are pleased to announce that we will give out FREE AppWall space to UK Windows Phone User Group members that attend the next user group meeting on 7th Dec `11.
Here is what you need to do in order to get your free space on the AppWall:
- 1. Attend the WPUG meeting on 7th Dec `11
- 2. Send us some feedback/suggestions about WindowsPhoneGeek.com(ex: what you do not like, what can be improved, if you need us to add another feature, etc.). Do not forget to mention what is your WindowsPhoneGeek user name
- 3. You put your app on the AppWall for free
This is all you have to do. We take things from here and make sure that everyone knows about your app.
11/9/2011
by WindowsPhoneGeek team
We are pleased to announce that our new product Windows Phone Toolkit "ListPicker Learning Pack" is now live! 
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What is included:
- ListPicker UI Guidelines
- MVVM Optimized Samples and Behaviors
- Performance sample
- Feature Samples
- Workarounds & Solutions to common problems
- In-Depth Documentation + Source Code
- Based on Windows Phone Toolkit Aug 2011!
We are pleased to announce that our new section "Top Windows Phone Dev Tools" is now live!
10/12/2011
by Boryana Miloshevska
I am pleased to announce that my latest book "Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" that was released yesterday has already been downloaded more than 16000 times for the last 24 hours!
In case you missed here is the book:
- 246 Pages
- Published Date: 11 Oct 2011
- Includes all controls from the Windows Phone Toolkit Aug 2011!
- 22 Chapters!
- Full Source Code
- Based on Windows Phone 7.1 Mango!
Download the book from here: http://windowsphonegeek.com/WPToolkitBook
10/3/2011
Dear readers,
As you may have noticed there was a minor delay in the published content on WindowsPhoneGeek.com during last week. This was caused by us relocating part of our team to London, UK.
We would like to appologize for the delay.
We are pleased to anounce that WindowsPhoneGeek.com is now operating at full capacity again!
Stay tuned for the upcomming WindowsPhoneGeek activities in UK!
All best,
The WindowsPhoneGeek Team
9/20/2011
We are happy to announce that the WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live!
The purpose of the WindowsPhoneGeek Recognition Program is to recognize and award people who actively participate and contribute to the WindowsPhoneGeek community thus helping to popularaze the Windows Phone technology! Contributors are recognized with the following badges(visible in their WindowsPhoneGeek profiles):
Our Top Articles & Free books
- Our FREE e-book: "Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" 2nd edition
- 400+ Windows Phone Development articles in our Article Index
- 21 WP7 Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls
- 12 WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls
- Performance Tips when creating WP7 apps
- Creating a WP7 Custom Control in 7 Steps
- WP7 working with VisualStates: How to make a ToggleSwitch from CheckBox
- What makes a WP7 App successful
- Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask
- Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector
- All about Splash Screens in WP7 – Creating animated Splash Screen
- Getting Started with Unit Testing in Silverlight for WP7
- WP7 WatermarkedTextBox custom control
Our Top Tips & Samples
- All about WP7 Isolated Storage series
- WP7 Dynamically Generating DataTemplate in code
- 5 tips for a successful WP7 Marketplace submission
- WP7: Navigating to a page in different assembly
- WP7 ContextMenu: answers to popular questions
- WP7 ListBox: answers to popular questions
- WP7 working with Images: Content vs Resource build action
- WP7 Element Binding samples
- WP7 working with XML: reading, filtering and databinding
- Drawing in WP7: #2 Drawing shapes with finger
- WP7 TextBox Light theme problems - the solution
- Changing the WP7 Panorama Background Image dynamically with Animation








