Announcing Windows ad mediation – maximize your Windows Phone app ad revenue
In-app advertising represents about one third of all Store revenue generated by developers, second only to the fast-growing in-app purchase monetization model. We’re continually looking for ways to...
View ArticleHow to maximize the impact of Windows ad mediation for Windows Phone
As Todd announced earlier, Windows Store today launched a new ad mediation solution designed to help Windows Phone developers who use in-app advertising to increase their fill rates and revenue. In...
View ArticleWhere can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();
We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform: Maximize ad revenue with Windows Ad Mediator Service...
As announced last week, the Windows Ad Mediator Service and Control is now available, designed to help developers greatly improve advertising revenue.I sat down with Bernardo Zamora, Director of...
View ArticleDialog box may be displayed to users when opening projects in Microsoft...
After the installation of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6, users may experience the following dialog box displayed in Microsoft Visual Studio when either creating new Web Site or Windows Azure project...
View ArticleUp to $100 million available to purchase Windows apps, prepare your apps now...
Traditionally, the holiday season and year-end bring new devices and a significant increase in app downloads. During the holiday period of 2013, Windows Store saw 2.4x more revenue than the Jan-Nov...
View ArticleNovember 2014 updates for Internet Explorer
In addition to improvements to the Enterprise Mode Site List announced today, the November update also includes the following security related updates.Updates to out-of-date ActiveX control blockingAs...
View ArticleAnnouncing improvements to the Enterprise Mode Site List
Today we are adding functionality to Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 as part of the November update, expanding the Enterprise Mode Site List introduced in April to give customers a new way to...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4
Today we released both Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4. The ASP.NET team provided many new features and updates to both the runtime and tooling in Visual Studio 2015 Preview,...
View ArticleAllJoyn in Windows 10
Starting today, makers and software developers who have engaged in our Windows Insider program will get their first chance to develop applications that use AllJoyn capability in Windows 10 by...
View ArticlePassionate Windows developer, Rudy Huyn, shares how he obtained 15 million...
French developer Rudy Huyn is a passionate Microsoft MVP whose apps have been downloaded over 15 million times. He has successfully monetized his apps by engaging and communicating directly with his...
View ArticleKatana, ASP.NET 5, and bridging the gap
This post is for developers that have been using the Microsoft Owin components (e.g. the Katana project) and want to know how it relates to ASP.NET 5.As discussed in Katana’s roadmap, the next major...
View ArticleDeveloper Matthew Carlson’s ‘touchable’ email app relies on Windows 8.1;...
TouchMail leverages gestures, visuals, and the power of touch in its innovative email app that makes it possible to find and organize email faster than ever before. Co-founder and CEO Matthew Carlson...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform – Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries
In this episode of Inside Windows Platform, we talked with Ivan Stojiljkovic, the Dev Lead of the OCR team at Microsoft.OCR is acompelling developer scenario which can empower all sorts of useful...
View ArticleContent negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON)
IntroIn this blog, I intend to provide a simplified how-things-work and how-to-change-the-behavior. It is not intended as a deep dive into content negotiation.Since Web API 1 controller code can return...
View ArticleWindows App Studio adds Twitter and Instagram OAuth integration
More than 2.2 million users around the world have used Windows App Studio to quickly build apps for any phone, tablet, or PC running Windows 8.1. Today App Studio added the much-anticipated Twitter...
View ArticleMonetize your Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 apps with the Smaato SDK
Windows partner Smaato, a global mobile advertising monetization platform for Windows app developers, recently announced the availability of its SDK that now supports XAML apps for Windows Phone 8.1...
View ArticleFocusing community discussions for IE development on StackOverflow
In an effort to focus Web development discussions for Internet Explorer in one place, we have starting migrating IE development discussions from MSDN forums to Stack Overflow. This has started with...
View ArticleMatt Fara’s Motive is social, innovative, and built on Windows
Matt Fara is more than just a fan of all things Microsoft; as a developer of Windows apps for the past five years, he walks the talk. Fara is a Toronto-based enterprise developer by day who recently...
View ArticleGaming and Open Source for your Windows Phone and Windows Apps
This post was written by Corey Goff, Program Manager II on the Dev Platform team here at Microsoft.Middleware enables game developers to build on top of a base layer of code by abstracting pieces (or...
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