VB Developers Can Now Publish Windows Phone 7 Apps

Microsoft announced that its Visual Basic add-on for Windows Phone Developer Tools is now available in its final RTW version ("Release to Web"). With this add-on, Visual Basic developers who have built Silverlight applications and games for the Windows Phone 7 platform can finally ship their apps after months of testing and then have those apps published in the official Windows Phone Marketplace.


Download the new release of the Visual Basic add-on from  here
Microsoft has provided more VB for WP sample code here on MSDN.

To use the add-on, you'll need Visual Basic 2010 Professional or higher; Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is not supported.

Source : ReadWriteWeb

Share Greeting Cards from Your Mobile Phone

 

• Create personalized greeting cards on the mobile phone.
• Select greeting theme from four pre-loaded themes.(six preloaded themes available on paid version-CardzCreator+)
• Browse and download more themes.
• Customize greeting message and background.
• Interact in 3D (Zoom In/ Out, Rotate) to get the desired view of the card.
• Send the greeting card to one or multiple recipients as an MMS. (Available in paid version-CardzCreator+).
• Send the greeting card to one or multiple recipients as an SMS.
• Post the greeting card on friend's facebook wall.
• Tweet the greetings to celebrities, friends and others whom you follow on twitter.
• Change theme to create a different greeting.
• Save the greeting on image folder of the mobile phone to send it through Bluetooth

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VisualBasic for Windows Mobile 7

Today Microsoft announced that developers interested in building applications for Windows Phone 7 can now use Visual Basic to do so, in addition to the previously supported platforms of C#, Silverlight and XNA. This, says Microsoft's Brandon Watson via an official blog post, was the biggest request from the company's developer community to date.

Interested developers can now download the Visual Basic CTP (Community Test Build) for Windows Phone Developer Tools package which includes templates, designer support, emulator and phone support and IntelliSense for Visual Basic, an auto-completion tool used in coding.

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WaveSecure App for Backup your Mobile Data

WaveSecure Backup for Java runs on non-smartphones and helps keep your personal data safe by letting you back up or restore your data securely. You can also move data between phones easily.

Key Features

• Remotely lock down your device
• Wipe out important data stored on your mobile to protect your privacy
• Back up your data from your phone or remotely on the web
• Access your data online from anywhere. Restore your data to a new phone
• Locate your lost phone and plot the locations on a map
• Track SIM cards inserted and phone calls made to help get your lost phone back

WaveSecure runs on major mobile phone platforms including Google Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. If you don't have a smartphone, WaveSecure Backup is available for phones that run Java.

Mirror in your Mobile phone

Rimmel London is a new mobile phone application which allows the mobile phone to be transformed into a handy mirror. You can download this free application from the Rimmel Mobile site

www.rimmellondon.mobi

Compatible Devices

Nokia: 5230, 5320 XpressMusic, 5530 XpressMusic, 5630 Xpress Music, 5730 XpressMusic, 5800 XpressMusic, 6121 Classic, 6220 Classic, 6720 Classic, E55, E66, E71, N72, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N95