New contact point for Windows Phone Developer


               To say goodbye to the old naming obviously seem to be in vogue these days at Microsoft. Because under the new flag "Windows Phone Dev Center" now sailing the former "App Hub", the portal developer's post on the Windows Phone Apps and provide information for development. But not only the name and also the appearance has changed, but also the structure of the portal has become a clear division into the "Submit Application", "Get SDK" and "View Samples" to read.

              But still have several projects in motion, for the time being everything affects only Windows Mobile 7 and 7.5. So shall soon the number of countries and markets that can be offered for the apps to be almost quadrupled. With the geographical growth accompanied by the expansion of the pricing and payment options. For individual countries and regions will have to set different prices, each in different currencies. Both the collection can be handled via PayPal for the future, the app sales and the payment of fees for the developer accounts, at least for the countries in which the service is available.

               Also the financial aspect is the handling of "in-app" sales, which was with the idea of ​​Windows Phone has been announced 8th However, this will be possible only with explicit WP8. Having been frequently lamented, is that the previously allowed number was too low of 100 participants for beta testing, Microsoft is expanding the number of "thousands" of participants - as are the many to be specific, but is still open. This potential growth also carry the new bill analysis tools that provide a more granular review of the use of sales, and beta test versions, each with corresponding sales and also a tracking upgrade of the behavior of such trials to be purchased apps.

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