Cloud-native applications are distributed by nature, which introduces complexity of connections in every layer. With multiple components and units interacting with each other, it's hard for developers ...

If you can't beat them, steal them. Or, at least, make it as easy as you possibly can to port to your platform. The launch of a new API mapping tool for Windows Phone 7, coupled with the roll out of a ...

An application consists various resources that communicate with each other through APIs, which send and receive messages. In modern applications, various different parts interact with each other, ...

Less than two months after it launched its API mapping tools to encourage iPhone developers to bring their titles across to Windows Phone, Microsoft has updated the set up to support Android. In April ...

Microsoft is trying to lure iOS developers into creating applications for the Windows Phone 7 operating system by offering an API mapping tool which helps them port their applications over from the ...

Just two months after delivering a tool to help developers port iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is adding Android support to it. On June 9, Microsoft announced it is adding Android support ...

Its package consists of an API mapping tool, which the company compared to a “translation dictionary,” and a whitepaper. With versions now available for Android and iOS, Microsoft has still not ...

Microsoft is trying to woo Android application developers, offering them help in porting applications to Windows Phone. The company has released a Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android developers ...