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Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Facebook Integration (part 1) - Connecting to Facebook

Windows Phone 8 offers built-in Facebook integration. This means that you can access your friend’s Facebook Wall (as well as your own) without actually having to go to the Facebook website.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 8) - Adding an Appointment to the Shared Calendar , Creating a New Shared Note, Viewing Shared Notes

If you want to add an appointment to a shared calendar, you can do so by going into the room and completing these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 7) - Viewing Shared Photos and Videos, Viewing the Shared Calendar

Rooms enable members to privately share photos and videos with one another. To view photos or videos that you or others have shared, open the room and complete these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 6) - Sharing Photos and Videos

To share a photo with other room members, go into the room and complete the following steps

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 5) - Deleting a Room, Using Group Chat

One of the nice things about rooms is that they enable you to have private chats with the members of the room. You can engage in a group chat by going into the room and completing these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 4) - Pinning a Room to the Start Screen, Renaming a Room

If you use a room often, it can be handy to pin the room to the start screen. You can accomplish this by going into the room and completing these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 3) - Deleting a Room Member, Choosing a Room Background

Windows Phone 8 enables you to change a room’s background. Doing so causes the selected image to display as wallpaper while you are in the room.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 2) - Accessing a Room, Adding Members to a Room

The second text message contains a URL that the recipient can tap to accept the invitation. The URL takes the recipient to a web page that prompts the person to sign in using a Microsoft account.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - Rooms (part 1) - Creating a Room

The first step in using the Rooms feature is usually to create a room. Windows Phone 8 devices include a predefined room called Family Room, but you can delete this room, if necessary.

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 7) - Sending a Text Message to Group Members

One of the main reasons for creating groups is that doing so makes it easy to send messages to everyone in the group at once. To send a text message to group members, go to the Start screen, tap the People tile, and follow these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 6) - Sending an Email Message to Group Members

One of the main reasons for creating groups is that doing so makes it easy to send email messages to everyone in the group at once. To send an email to group members, open the People hub and follow these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 5) - Pinning a Group to the Start Screen,Deleting a Group

If you have a group that you use frequently, you might benefit from pinning the group to the Start screen. You can accomplish this task by opening the People hub and following these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 4) - Renaming a Group

Occasionally, you might create a group and then later decide that you want to call it something different. You can rename a group by opening the People Hub and following these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 3) - Removing a Group Member

If you use the Groups feature, at some point, you will need to remove a contact from a group. You can accomplish this by opening the People hub and following these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 2) - Adding a Contact to a Group

After creating a group, you need to add some contacts to it. To do so, open the People hub and complete these steps

Windows Phone 8 : Groups (part 1) - Creating a New Group

Just as you can add a new contact to your phone, you can also add a new group. Groups make it easy to send a single message to multiple recipients. For instance, suppose that you frequently send email messages to several friends

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 8) - Configuring Social Network Settings

The People hub provides access to a Settings page that enables you to customize your phone’s behavior. Some of these settings are Facebook specific and others relate solely to the People hub.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 7) - Linking Contacts

Because the People hub aggregates your contacts from multiple sources, you might end up with multiple entries for the same person. Although Windows automatically attempts to find and merge all the profile information for that person and display it as a single contact, sometimes it misses and a contact appears in your list more than once.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 6) - Pinning a Contact to the Start Screen

If you like to frequently check on certain friends or family members, you can pin someone’s profile to the start screen. Doing so gives you one-touch access to the person’s profile so that you can easily call, send an email message or a text message, or view that person’s Facebook Wall.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 5) - Searching for a Contact,Using Jump Lists to Find a Contact

As you begin linking multiple accounts to your phone, there’s a good chance that you will accumulate a rather long list of contacts. Thankfully, you don’t have to scroll through the full list of contacts every time you need to find someone specific.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 4) - Deleting a Contact

When you delete a contact, the contact is also removed from any synchronized sources. For example, if you delete an Outlook contact, the contact is also removed from the Contacts list associated with your Microsoft Exchange mailbox.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 3) - Editing a Profile

Windows Phone 8 enables you to add or modify a contact’s profile information at any time. Any changes you make here sync back to the email service with which it’s associated.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 2) - Adding a Contact

If you want to add a contact not already linked to an email account or social network, you can manually add that person. When you do, the contact that you add is synchronized to the mailbox of your choice.

Windows Phone 8 : Working with People - The People Hub (part 1) - Viewing a Profile

The People hub is the Windows Phone 8 contact list. You access it by tapping the People tile on your Start screen or by using your phone’s Apps list.

Windows Phone 8 : Scheduled Notifications (part 3) - Reminder Registration, Reminder Sample

The Reminder sample mirrors the alarm sample; however, the reminder sample demonstrates how to use the deep linking feature of reminders to allow editing of a reminder after it has been created.

Windows Phone 8 : Scheduled Notifications (part 2) - Alarm Registration, Alarm Sample

The sample code for this section includes a page that allows you to enter the details of a new alarm—including its name and begin time—and to set the alarm via an application bar button. The code is located in the Alarms directory of the WPUnleashed.BackgroundAgents project, in the BackgroundAgents solution.

Windows Phone 8 : Scheduled Notifications (part 1)

Sometimes an app may need to schedule a message to be displayed to the user at a future date. One way to achieve this, without relying on the user to have the app open to display the message, is to use a scheduled notification.

Windows Phone 8 : Walking Through the Bookshop Sample Application (part 5) - Overview of the Sample Bookshop WCF Service

The Bookshop demo application includes a server-side component, which is used by both the ProductsViewModel and ProductDetailsViewModel classes, providing the application with a set of products to display.

Windows Phone 8 : Walking Through the Bookshop Sample Application (part 4) - Image Caching

While the viewmodel saves the result of the WCF service call, which allows the app to restore its state after being tombstoned, downloaded images are not saved in the state dictionary, but rather, the app relies on some custom image caching.

Windows Phone 8 : Walking Through the Bookshop Sample Application (part 3) - Design-Time Data

It can be difficult and time consuming constructing a page or control without knowing how the content will appear at runtime.