I’ve spent some time the JumpList API for UWP apps recently and there were a couple of things that caught me by surprise that I wanted to share with you,…
I recently read a blog post about using shims to unit test without interfaces. It looks really compelling, so I thought I'd explore some ways to create testable code to…
Build has now come to a close, and some exciting new things were shown. It definitely feels like a new Microsoft when compared to a few years ago. A lot more…
When adding the Microsoft.ProjectOxford.Emotion nuget package to a Xamarin iOS project on Visual Studio for Mac you might encounter the following error: Install-Package Microsoft.ProjectOxford.Emotion [...] Could not install package 'Microsoft.Bcl.Build 1.0.14'.…
I’ve done a PoC on a UWP assigned access app and thought I’d share some findings. First what is assigned access or kiosk mode which its also called. In Windows…
The .NET Compiler Platform (a.k.a. Roslyn) version 1.0-rc2 was recently released and got go-live license which means the API's are to be considered fairly stable. In this post I'll demonstrate how…
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…
Why would one want to use C++ when developing modern applications for Windows? A lot of developers see C++ as an old, aging, clumsy giant. Why program using C++ when…
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…
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.
With the release of Windows Phone 8.1, the Credential Locker service is now available for Windows Phone app developers. This is great news for both first time users and those of us already using the service in our Windows 8.1 Store apps.
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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.
The release of Windows Phone 8.1 SDK gives us, as developers, three different XAML app models to choose from for our future app development. This post will describe the difference between them and how to choose the right app model.
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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…
This blog post is part of a series about how Windows Phone 8.1 affects developers. With the introduction of Windows Phone 8.1 we are no longer limited to using C# or VB…
In the last blog post we talked about our experience as a C# developer when migrating a C# app to Javascript + Html. In this follow up post we will…
Recently we developed a Windows Phone 8 app communicating with a simple rest service with C#. With all the buzz around html5 and JavaScript we wanted to see how hard…