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This page presents offerings and resources from partners, communities and people from the Windows Phone developer ecosystem.
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featured offerings

Tools and Components | Web API/Cloud Services | Open Source Resources | XNA Game Studio Tools

tools and components for windows phone

Developers looking to add photo editing capabilities to their applications can download Aviary for Windows Phone, which features Aviary’s standard set of tools (one-tap enhance, effects, crop, rotate, brightness, and more!), customizable color themes, controllable output sizes, and an SDK that has been redesigned to take advantage of Metro design principles. Thousands of apps and services on the web and mobile have integrated Aviary’s API and SDKs, providing millions of photo edits on a daily basis. Spare yourself the time and effort of creating these tools on your own – Aviary has done the work for you.

To learn more, visit Aviary’s Windows Phone page.

Keeping up with the latest trends in software application development, ComponentOne offers developers 20+ UI controls for Windows Phone available in ComponentOne Studio® for Windows Phone.

This studio provides data visualization, rich text editing, data input, PDF viewing, layout & more. Built to enhance the rich UX of the Windows Phone, these Silverlight-based controls empower you to build more compelling and better performing apps.

Visit ComponentOne to learn more and download a free trial.

For developers that need to take their mobile applications to the next level of user experience, Infragistics’ NetAdvantage for Window Phone is a set of controls and components that gives developers the benefit of robust, interactive visualizations in their mobile applications to create high performance dashboards, comprehensive data entry applications and social media connected applications.

For a free trial and samples, click here.

XAML Spy (formerly known as Silverlight Spy) is a runtime inspector tool providing unprecedented access to all aspects of any Silverlight in-browser, out-of-browser, Windows Phone and WinRT application. Explore the UI element tree, monitor events, extract XAML, interactively execute DLR code, view statistics and more.

Why you need to use XAML Spy: Save valuable time with visual debugging tools, Explore and modify all aspects of your application at runtime, Figure out why your application is behaving the way it is, Identify performance bottlenecks , and there are simply no more secrets with XAML Spy!

For more information visit the XAML Spy page.

PreEmptive Solutions provides solutions to measure, manage, and protect apps, and offers Windows Phone developers the following products:

Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone

PreEmptive Analytics for TFS

Dotfuscator .NET

For more information, visit PreEmptive Solutions for Windows Phone page.

RADARC is a powerful app accelerator tool to quickly create Windows Phone enterprise applications. Build your model and lean back while quality code is automatically generated. Create zero errors apps using MDD, MVVM and the technologies you love. Just model your app, let RADARC generate the code for you, and then dig into the solution to discover how things are done.

Visit RADARC to learn more and download a free trial!

Syncfusion Metro Studio is a collection of over 600+ Metro-style icon templates that can be easily customized to create thousands of unique Metro icons using an intuitive customization tool. Metro Studio is the only icon collection that you will ever need for building Metro-style applications.

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion, Inc. provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. Our award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in ASP.NET MVC, Windows Phone 7, Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight or Mobile MVC.

Visit Syncfusion to learn more.

RadControls for Windows Phone UI suite shortens your app’s time to market. Designed to help developers create intuitive and delightful applications, it offers an array of controls and capabilities that are not available in the UI Toolbox for Windows Phone and not even in the OS. The suite is trusted by a number of customers with top selling Windows Phone apps on the Marketplace. It provides the most comprehensive learning resources and the best support you could possibly find.

Visit RadControls for Windows Phone page to learn more and to download a free trial.

Verious.com is a one-stop marketplace for Windows Phone tools and components including UI controls, SDKs, mobile-ready APIs, App Development Tools, and VB and C# libraries. These components and resources help speed development time and add new functionality to your Windows Phone apps. Whether you are using the Silverlight or XNA framework, you can find solutions that will meet your needs.

Visit Verious to discover a range of components and speed up your Windows Phone app development projects.

WindowsPhoneGeek.com is an independent community site centered around Windows Phone development. The web site offers high quality development articles, tutorials, source code, examples, tips, resources, demo videos, listing of the latest development news and more.

WindowsPhoneGeek.com also maintains a list of the Top Windows Phone Development components and tools ordered by user votes. For more information, click here.

Web API/Cloud Services for Windows Phone

AdDuplex empowers Windows Phone developers to get free exposure for their apps by helping fellow developers. Add a line of code into your Silverlight or XNA Game Studio app and start cross-promoting other Windows Phone apps. You will get free advertising in these other apps in return.

AdDuplex can also be used as a fallback solution for other (commercial) ad providers to maximize the value of your ad space when your provider of choice can’t serve a commercial ad. For more information, visit AdDuplex.

ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Windows Phone is a library that allows you to build mobile application which can integrate map/LBS and professional GIS function. It can load online map service, Bing Maps or offline map content, to complete identify/ search/ spatial query/ data display tasks. Additionally, it provides you GIS functions, such as loading your own spatial data, collecting/editing data in the field, and performing complex spatial analysis to maximize the value of your data. For more information, visit the ArcGIS Resource Center.

Buddy helps developers build cloud-connected mobile apps easier & faster, by offering hosted web services for mobile apps. Buddy hosts complete “scenarios” - such as location services, messaging, photo albums, friends/chat, metadata storage, crash reporting, etc., meaning developers don’t have to invest in the infrastructure, development time and maintenance pain otherwise required to support these features. Buddy also helps brands, companies and publishers understand the who, what and where of their mobile app usage by providing incredibly high fidelity automatic mobile analytics.

For more information, visit Buddy.

Open Source Resources for Windows Phone

amCharts Quick Charts is an easy to use, fast set of charting controls for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone. Quick Charts supports Line, Column, Area and Pie charts, Automatic axes and grid, and databinding. The Windows Phone version is optimized for touch manipulation and smaller screens for phone devices. Alan Mendelevich (@ailon) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information, and to download the app, click here.

Calcium

Calcium SDK is a Windows Phone MVVM application toolset that provides much of what you need to rapidly build maintainable multifaceted and sophisticated phone apps. It includes a bindable app bar, a user options system, enhanced localization support, an IoC container, input validation and much more. Daniel Vaughan (@DBVaughan) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. For more information and to download, visit http://calciumsdk.com.

Caliburn Micro is framework designed for Windows Phone, Silverlight, WPF and WinRT/Metro which implements a variety of UI patterns for solving real-world problems. Patterns that are highlighted include MVVM (Presentation Model), MVP and MVC. Rob Eisenberg (@Eisenbergeffect) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. For more information and to download, click here.

Cocos2d gaming framework now comes to Windows Phone! The team has rewritten the whole framework in C# based on XNA. You can easily port your cocos2d-iphone and cocos2d-x games onto Windows Phone, only translate the programming language, but don’t need to now the complexity of OpenGL ES and XNA. This powerful SDK is totally free and open source with MIT License. For more information, visit Cocos2dx.

Farseer Physics Engine is a 2D physics engine designed for Silverlight, XNA Game Studio and Windows Phone platform, which offers a collision detection system with realistic physics responses. Ian Qvist is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information and download at: http://farseerphysics.codeplex.com/

IsoStoreSpy is a tool to explore IsolatedStorage of your applications without installing anything on the phone. The tool lets you preview text, image files, video and includes a simple but robust SqlCE database viewer. You can install, uninstall or launch the application from the interface, as well as create ringtones easily. Samuel Blanchard (@samoteph and blog) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. The icon of IsoStoreSpy has been drawn by Gordon Irving. More information, and to download the app, click here.

Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET. It supports .NET 2, .NET 3.5, .NET 4, Silverlight and Windows Phone and include various features particularly useful when the JSON you are reading or writing maps closely to a .NET class. James Newton-King (@jamesNK) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. Visit Json.NET for more information and to download.

MVVM Light Toolkit is a set of components helping people to get started in the Model - View - ViewModel pattern in Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone. It is a light and pragmatic framework that contains only the essential components needed. Laurent Bugnion (@LBugnion) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information and download at: http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com

Phoney Tools is a project that contains several classes, helpers and controls for use to speed up Windows Phone applications development. Shawn Wildermuth (@ShawnWildermuth) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information and download at: http://phoney.codeplex.com/

Ree7 Tile for Windows Phone library aims at helping Windows Phone developers to generate tiles with counters that look like native tiles, or custom tiles that can be designed in XAML (within Visual Studio or Expression Blend). Pierre Belin -@pleasereset is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information and download at: http://wp7tiletoolkit.codeplex.com/

Windows Phone Power Tools allow you to not only install developer XAPs, but also test update scenarios of an existing developer app. The Power Tools also provide a graphical user interface to interact with your installed developer applications including drag & drop copy to and from their Isolated Storage. Oren Nachman (@OrenNachman) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information can be found on CodePlex.

WriteableBitmapEx library is a collection of extension methods for Silverlight's WriteableBitmap, which allows the direct manipulation of a bitmap and could be used to generate fast procedural images by drawing directly to a bitmap. The library is easy to use and provides powerful GDI+ like functionality. René Schulte (@rschu) is the main contributor and coordinates this project. More information and download at: http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/

XNA Game Studio Tools

The SunBurn Lighting and Rendering Engine, by Synapse Gaming, brings the latest AAA game technology to XNA Game Studio.

As a natural extension of the XNA framework, SunBurn’s familiar design is easy to integrate into XNA games and projects. And with full support for the XNA Game Studio content pipeline, SunBurn is compatible with the top modeling, animation, and texture applications.

App Hub members receive an exclusive $50 discount on Synapse Sunburn Pro. If you are an App Hub Member, you can get your discount code here.

Visit Synapse Gaming's site to learn more!

The Substance Smart Textures Ecosystem lets you create and play with a new breed of dynamic, lean textures: substances! Create substances with our authoring tools and use them directly in all the Substance-ready applications such as 3DSMax, Maya or Unity Engine. www.allegorthmic.com.

The TurboSquid library of compatible 3D models provides Microsoft XNA Game Studio developers with the high-quality 3D art assets that they need to bring their video games to life. TurboSquid proudly hosts a community of the world’s finest 3D artists, and through a partnership with Microsoft, these artists’ game-ready models are available to XNA Game Studio developers.

The library includes a growing supply of both free and competitively priced models in file types compatible with Microsoft XNA Game Studio (.fbx and .x files) that developers can incorporate into their games.

More information on the TurboSquid library.

Whether you want to create a graffiti-covered wall, the bark of an ancient tree, blood-splattered armor, or the high-tech wiring of an alien craft, Genetica is the texturing tool that game developers turning to. Here's why:

Create seamless textures from photographs—you won't believe how easy it is (see video).
Make sophisticated textures easily with intuitive drawing tools (see video).
Enjoy more great features than any other material editor.

Learn more at the Spiral Graphics website.

Mixamo is an innovative online 3D character animation service for 3D professionals.

By leveraging cutting-edge research directly from Stanford University, stellar web engineers and a top notch in-house animation team, Mixamo aims to truly evolve and democratize character animation making it ten times faster, more cost effective and accessible.

Mixamo technology enables both new and seasoned 3D professionals in the video game, virtual world, 3D design/architecture, and virtual goods markets to create the highest-quality character motion possible in a matter of seconds using director level controls.

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