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New version of JavaScript library WinJS is now in preview

WinJS is a cross-platform JavaScript library for building HTMl5/CSS/JavaScript applications across devices. When it was announced first in 2014 it was Open Sourced. The version in preview is 4.0 . The feature set got beefed up with the following: ( http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2015/04/01/winjs-4-preview.aspx ): Universal experiences: UI controls will scale or translate among various devices without having to go through significant rewrites. Addition of controls: ContentDialog, SplitView, AutoSuggestBox and ToolBar controls are now available; Hub and Pivot controls and other controls are updated. AngularJS Support: An AngularJS-WinJS wrapper allows WinJS-originated code to be used in AngularJS projects. ListView Improvements: "ListView is a signature control for WinJS," according to the Windows blog. As such, its capabilities have been streamlined to work almost identically from mouse- to touch-enable device: multi-selection, lists in alternating stripes, p...

Deploying an app to your Windows Phone 8.1

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You may find this helpful if you are developing an application for Windows Phone. You are a Windows Phone 8.1 Preview developer and you have created a nice app that you want to test on a phone you own. How do  you test it? While developing the application using Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows Update 3 (this is a free developer resource, read more here ) you will see it on a emulator, the phone image that emulates your actual phone  that comes on your PC/Laptop when you run the app. After running the app on your laptop you should deploy it to your phone. The phone you buy is by default locked and you need to unlock it. Details of unlocking the phone are here: Go to this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=317976 This is how I was able to do. I connected my phone (Nokia Icon) to the laptop. On my Windows 8.1 Professional (x64 bit) laptop I searched for Windows Phone and got these results(few shown) I clicked on the Windows Phone Devel...