Update for Windows Phone Developers

author Robert Hogg calendar Jan 9, 2014 · 2 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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In a wrap from last year I am posting some summary's of key information from the last few months that people may have missed.

Since the Windows Phone team made the update 3 available to developers there is now a new set of Images for Update 3

These images allows you to test on Update 3 at the same resolutions as Update 2 but also at 1080 x 1920 resolution screens for phones such as the Lumia 1520. Get Update 3 for the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK Here 

if you haven't got update 3 on your Windows Phone 8 look here

The  Windows Phone Dev Center also has a very useful change, Beta apps which used to expire after 90 days, however now the apps do not expire and it is up to you as the developer to expire/change/use as needed.This is very welcome change as it will allow developers to run rapid delivery long running parallel Beta/Test programs.

Also the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store have merged accounts and costs (At last) and at the same time reduced the costs significantly to 12 UKP for and individual and 65 UKP for a company. Remember if you have a MSDN subscription there store is free with the code you get from your MSDN subscription page.

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