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How to Prevent the XAML Design View to Automatically Load in Visual Studio 2012?

If you are a Windows Phone developer using the XAML + C# Application model, you would have noticed that the XAML design view (designer) takes some time to load/render the controls on the page during the design time.

Oxygene and WP8 – How to detect the Windows Phone OS Version using Oxygene?

If you want to programmatically detect the Windows Phone OS version, you can use the Environment.OSVersion property.

Windows Phone - "Deployment failed because an app with target platform Any CPU cannot be deployed to Device" Error

When I was trying to deploy and debug a Windows Phone 8 app from Visual Studio 2012, I ended up getting the following error.

Oxygene and WP8 - How to get the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone using Oxygene?

In Windows Phone 8, you can easily get the Unique Device ID using the DeviceExtendedProperties.GetValue or DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue method.

Oxygene & WP8 – Project Structure

In the previous article, we saw how to create the first Windows Phone Project using Oxygene. In this article, we will try to understand the project structure of the Windows Phone Project. Note that the list of default files in the project will differ based...