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 normal can help someone […]
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 from an interested audience, […]
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. A lot has been […]
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 to Windows Not one […]
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 BI for reporting. Windows […]
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 developer focused than we […]
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 know that the Windows […]
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 give you a 360° […]
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 impressed. With Windows 10 […]
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 versions of the app […]
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 through push notifications. Starting […]
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 into problems though, and […]
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 hurdles that I’d like […]
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 here. When it comes […]
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 here. Dude… what is […]