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This blog post was authored by Rohan Thakkar, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team.

- Adam

Windows Phone Toolkit June 2013 update is now ready to download

Source code: https://phone.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest

NuGet package: https://nuget.org/packages/WPtoolkit/

The Windows Phone Toolkit project has always been an open source vehicle for the Windows Phone Developer

Gameloft, which has released a flurry of great Xbox games for Windows Phone 8 in recent months, has slashed prices on 10 of its classic titles—some by as much as 67%. The sale, which runs through June 25, includes hits like Real Soccer and Asphalt 5 (both $0.99, regularly $2.99), Let’s Golf 2 and UNO (now $1.99, regularly $4.99), and movie legends The Amazing Spiderman and The Dark Knight Rises (now $2.99, regularly $6.99).

Welcome to the Windows App Builder blog! This is your one-stop shop for everything related to developing and selling apps for Windows.

Hey Steve Guggenheimer here, Chief Evangelist for Windows and your host for the Build conference next week. We’re only one week until Build and we’re really looking forward to getting together with developers in San Francisco to talk apps, code, industry trends, and of course have some fun. As we head into Build and the conversation on new apps, and apps yet to come, I wanted to take a moment and highlight strong app momentum for Windows 8.

There are great apps hitting the Windows Store all the time.

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Microsoft Advertising is committed to increasing advertiser demand and growing advertising revenue for mobile app developers. The latest improvements to increase developer monetization and end-user relevancy have just been released – these involve changes in the pubCenter categories used to target ad units. To fully leverage these new capabilities, developers need to visit pubCenter to take action to select one category for each ad unit and align that category with the selection in the Windows Phone Dev Center.

[Part of our occasional series spotlighting real people and their real Windows Phones. –.ed]

To all appearances, Britt Atack is an easygoing kind of guy. He pads around The Northwest School in shorts, t-shirt, and a well-worn pair of Vibram Five Fingers, calling out affable greetings to students and colleagues.

Back in February Microsoft Research released BLINK, a handy free photo app for Windows Phone 8 that captures a burst of images when you press the shutter button so you can pick the best shots. It was an instant hit, racking up more than 317,000 downloads and hundreds of 5-star reviews in the four months since.

This week we are joining forces with HP to talk about a few of their great family PCs. This includes the amazing HP Pavilion All-In-One TouchSmart that we are giving away. Plus, we’ll be joined by some of the bloggers who have been testing and using these devices for months so that you can get a good handle on what other people think.

Starting later today, Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers can download, install, and use the new Creative Cloud apps from Adobe. In addition to the many new features in these apps, the entire Creative Suite has now been fully integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud, hence the “CC” in the new app names.