Recovering from BitLocker bluescreen on Windows 10 Mobile
I just had a nerve wrecking 24h period with a phone that would only boot to a BitLocker recovery screen. I hope my adventures in getting my phone back to…
Apps on Windows 10 – intro and deep dive
I've just had the honor of presenting both the intro and the deep dive session on Universal app (UWP) development for Windows 10 at TechDays Sweden. Lots of good questions…
Apps on Windows 10 – the broad strokes
Had time to digest everything from BUILD yet? It sure is a lot to take in. We've blogged about some of the sessions: day 1, day 2 and day 3.…
BUILD 2015 – day 3
BUILD is officially over. It was a great week with lots of news and exciting technology. From a Windows perspective – the two things that really stood out were: Welcome…
BUILD 2015 – day 2
Keynote A keynote full of demos and details. It started off with some media streaming and quickly went on to a demo of the Surface Hub meeting-screen together with Power…
BUILD 2015 – day 1
Phew, day one of BUILD 2015 has passed and it was a blast. Here we’ll summarize our general impressions, and takeaways from the sessions we saw. Keynote A lot more…
Windows Phone 8.1 Tile Icon Size Guide
To do an app right, you should include icons of all sizes and all scaling levels, to optimize package size and get the right resolutions for each device. Did you…
Application Insights in Azure – intro, session slides and notes
I today had the honor of doing a session on Application Insights at TechX Azure in Stockholm, Sweden. AI is a tool/service for monitoring web and mobile apps, designed to…
Windows 10 for developers
Wow. The level of innovation and new products that Microsoft showed yesterday with HoloLens, Surface Hub and Windows 10 is rare to get in one event – we are mightily…
Shared XAML and localization in Universal Windows apps
This post will show you how to share XAML and localization in Universal Windows 8.1 apps, with a twist. The extra spice in this example is that we have two…
Action Center Toast taming on Windows Phone 8.1
Toast notifications is a powerful tool for sending transient message to the user. The can be invoked from an app, a background agent or from any service on the web…
Detecting orientation in Universal apps (Windows & Phone 8.1)
Working with sensors on Windows Phone is should be a breeze, both thanks to the fine-grained APIs in Windows.Devices.Sensors classes and the higher-level APIs in e.g. the SimpleOrientationSensor. I’ve ran…
WebView Javascript interop woes in Windows (Phone) 8.1 Universal apps
I’m currently working in a project creating a web-hybrid app on Windows Phone (and iOS and Android). My role is creating the Windows Phone version, and I’ve bumped into a few…
Windows Phone 8.1 for developers – App packaging with appx
This blog post is part of a series about how Windows Phone 8.1 affects developers. The series is written in collaboration with Microsoft evangelist Peter Bryntesson, check out his blog…
Windows Phone 8.1 for developers – the Background Media Player
This blog post is part of a series about how Windows Phone 8.1 affects developers. The series is written in collaboration with Microsoft evangelist Peter Bryntesson, check out his blog…