This may be an extreme edge case, but since I spent a few hours on something rather trivial, I though I should share it. When running Invoke-Command from powershell invoked via command line – be wary of the curly braces. What is the difference between the following two commands? powershell.exe -Command “& {invoke-command {throw ‘error’}}” [...]

I actually attended BUILD. I sat there, bombarded with so much information about Windows 8 and Metro style applications that I just went into my happy place, franticly taking notes on all that I should investigate later on. That very long and almost unreadable list contained, amongst many others, the keywords – contracts and charms. [...]

I wrote my first Windows 8 Metro application right before Øredev 2011. It was a small application that basically just displayed all tracks and speakers at the conference. I had the luxury of having access the raw conference xml data from the server, but one thing that I have learnt from conferences is that the [...]

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I demonstrated how to use databound controls in xaml based webservice is available here. The purpose of [...]

In the project I’m currently working on, we use Web.config transformations to adapt a base configuration to a particular deployment environment. I was adding a transformation to adapt our NLog configuration for the various environments, when I ran into a problem. I’d added the following transformation, intended to set the log level to Warning on [...]

The Windows Phone Marketplace was updated with new features in July 2011, one has to do with default language. The previous process to submit an app required you to define the default language when submitting the app, the new version checks the default language in the uploaded xap. The problem An app created before July [...]

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I demonstrated how to retrieve and data from a REST based webservice is available here. In that [...]

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I demonstrated how to store and retrieve view states between application deactivation and activation is available [...]

Have you seen the new (since fall 2011) ways to publish a Windows Phone app to Marketplace? In addition to regular publishing, you can now publish as private beta or targeted. Neither will make the app discoverable in the Marketplace, Beta is time limited and does not include the full certification requirements. MSDN has a [...]

This is the third in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I created a simple app for collecting feedback on how a presentation went is available here. Application [...]

This is the second in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry about installing the tools is available here.  Idea for an app The app I’d like to create [...]

This is the first in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The purpose is both to help others get started but also to show how simple it really is, to get [...]

Coming from WPF and Silverlight for the desktop into Silverlight for Windows Phone, which is Silverlight 3, can leave you longing for some features – one that I missed was Implicit Styles. But, with the Mango (7.1) release of WP7 we now have Silverlight 4! What are implicit styles? A style that has a target [...]

This is for all of you that just want a simple, up to date, example/how-to/tutorial of how to use Azure Blob Storage. You won’t see any screen shots or a lengthy guide on how to get started from scratch. Instead I will just focus on writing some code examples for general stuff that you might [...]

If your Windows Phone 7 project isn’t starting at all – you’re not even hitting App.xaml.cs, you’ve probably renamed the app project. Fix: Set the startup object on the app project’s properties page In the .csproj file, this corresponds to the SilverlightAppEntry element: <SilverlightAppEntry>PhotoDiary.App</SilverlightAppEntry> I would call it a bug, that you cannot rename a [...]