Turn your Wordpress Blog in to a Windows Phone App

Windows Phone Starter Kit for WordPress is a plugin that you install on wordpress that will allow you to offer your site’s content via a Windows Phone App. The application is developed by Chris Koenig and is an open-source initiative. The features of the WP7 app inclide the ability to view posts, view comments associated to the posts, and add their own comments.

The code sample contain 2 elements : a WordPress Plugin ( which you have to install via wordpress, will probably only work will self hosted wordpress installations )and the source code for a windows phone application Starter Kit ( which you can customise to your site’s needs )

To customize the Starter Kit, perform the following actions:

1. Open the MainPage.xaml.cs file in Visual Studio
2. Update the siteURL parameter to the location of your WordPress blog

To install the WordPress Plugin

1. Log into your WordPress blog using an account that has administrative access
2. Click on the “Plugins” link from the navigation bar on the Dashboard
3. Click on the “Add New” button on the Plugins page
4. Select the “Upload” link from those choices presented on the Plugins page
5. Click the browse button and navigate to the location of the WPSKPlugin.zip (usually <project folder>\WordPressPlugin\WPSKPlugin.zip
6. Click the “Install Now” button to perform the upload.

More info and download from : msdn , chriskoenig.net

via : @gcaughey