• Microsoft Releases iPhone to Windows Phone 7 App Porting Tool

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    In an effort to grow Marketplace one of Microsoft’s main strategies have been to make it easy for developers to bring their popular iPhone applications to Windows Phone 7. This comes an attempt to catch up with Apple App Store & Android Market that are full of quality applications.

    As WMPowerUser reports, Microsoft has now launched an iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool to helps developers more easily translate their applications to the Windows phone 7 API. With this tool, iPhone developers can take their apps, pick out the iOS API calls, and quickly look up the equivalent classes, methods and notification events in WP7. A developer can search a given iOS API call and find the equivalent WP7 along with C# sample codes and API documentations for both platforms.

    Microsoft is also providing a 90+ pages “Windows Phone 7 Guide for iPhone Application Developers” white paper to get developers up and running.

    • Windows Phone API Mapping Tool can be downloaded from here.

  • Latest Windows Phone Commercial Shows off UI Eye Candy

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    The commercial  is entitled “Everything a smartphone should be” and uses quotes from ordinary users and sites to demonstrate SMS, Live Tiles, Outlook, Calendar, Office, Zune, Xbox LIVE integration and a few choice applications like Netflix and Amazon’s Kindle. The commercial features AT&T’s Samsung Focus device.

  • New Theme Brings Windows Phone 7 Live Tiles To iOS

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    If there is one thing that Windows Phone 7 has going for itself, it’s probably its Live Tiles home screen. Just like iOS updates the calendar’s icon once a day to show the right date, Microsoft made its entire homescreen display real-time information. It allows you for example to check when’s your next appointment, your Twitter feed or email without having to launch any app. It sounds great on paper, but they’re not quite there yet. Still, it’s a neat idea.

    Wyndwarrior, a jailbreak theme creator certainly thought so too and took up to recreate the interface for jailbroken iOS devices. From the live tiles, all the way to displaying applications, he managed to reproduce pretty much the entire experience. Of course, even jailbroken, iOS has certain limitations, so don’t expect too much from it. Still, the result is impressive. Check it out:

    [via: appadvice]