Just as with most Windows Phone applications, you typically add value to a Windows 8 application when caching data. You gain some offline ability as well as a quick and…
Right now, one of the big differences between Windows Phone and Windows 8 is what third party components you can use. For Windows Phone you have a huge selection of…
The perhaps most obvious difference between Windows Phone and Windows 8 is that XAML is no longer a part of .NET in Windows 8. The reason for it being so…
You have to start somewhere, and both a blog series and a conversion starts here. During the following weeks we’ll take a real (is-deployed-to-marketplace-real) Windows Phone application and convert it,…
There is one thing that most client projects have in common - they request data, in some form, from a server. When developing for Windows Phone I prefer to do…
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…
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…
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…
This blog post will explain how you can (using only the raw .NET Framework) implement push notifications for a Windows 8 Metro Application. Windows Push Notifications (WNS) in Windows 8…
You know that thing you need to do before accessing your azure table for the first time? Yes, I’m looking at you CreateTableIfNotExist(string tableName). You need to do this before…
Testability and the means to abstract away your persistence layer in Windows Azure - two things that you don’t get for free. But you can get it really cheap, you…
You know the process where you need to increment the AssemblyVersion for each build? Personally I’ve solved it both using MSBuild and PowerShell as a part of our daily builds.…
Why you might ask? A perfectly valid and sane question, let me explain. Right now I’m setting up continuous integration for both an Azure project and an Android project. I’ve…
The chaos monkey, a mythical creature. I had actually never heard of it until I read Jeff Atwood’s post (which is excellent and you should read it). Then I realized…
There are several reasons for setting up Continuous Integration for any project. The very same reasons (and some more) are true for an Azure project. In this post I’ll take…