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Nokia's top-12 tips on building apps for WP 256MB

Tip #1 - Always test apps using the emulator's 256 MB option
Tip #2 - Make use of the Windows Phone Memory profiler 
Tip #3 - Create a helper class to detect if your app is running on a 256 MB phone 
Tip #4 - PeriodicTask and ResourceIntensiveTasks are not supported
Tip #5 - Use the WebBrowserTask instead of the <WebBrowser /> control to display arbitrary untested web pages 
Tip #6 - Replace the Bing <Map /> control with the BingMapsTask 
Tip #7 - Consider reducing image quality 
Tip #8 - Consider replacing long lists with images with ListBox replacements that use Data Virtualization 
Tip #9 - Consider disabling page transitions 
Tip #10 - Avoid initialising the same SoundEffects multiple times 
Tip #11 - Compress your XNA assets 
Tip #12 - Take care to locate and eliminate memory leaks 

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Dont Forget the WP Marketplace Test Kit

The Windows Phone Marketplace Test Kit provides a suite of automated, monitored, and manual tests to help prepare your applications to be accepted in the Marketplace the first time you submit them. The test kit enables you to identify and fix issues prior to Marketplace submission, which saves time in the submission process. You can use the test kit to evaluate applications that target Windows Phone OS 7.1 or later.

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh394032(v=vs.92).aspx 

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