We started with a Windows Phone application and converted it to a Windows 8 equivalent. The end result was far from a clone, neither visually nor in function, but that was never the goal. […]
The Mango (7.1) update for Windows Phone brought us a lot of goodies including the Scheduled Task Agent. It allowed us to create a feeling of push notifications without actually doing any server push […]
Live tiles was introduced with Windows Phone. Compared to an icon, which only used to start an application, a live tile is more like a window into your application. A window where you can […]
I don’t think I need to stress how important it is to place all of your texts (as in language specific texts visible to the end user) in the same place. To look around […]
Today I’ve had the honor and privilege to present at TechDays Sweden and at TechDays@campus, Örebro University. The topic was Beginning Windows Phone development and at both venues I had a big crowd with […]
Navigation in Windows Phone has a clear legacy from Silverlight, you get around using Uris and query strings. What might have been the best solution for the web is clumsy and cumbersome in a […]
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 snappy application that doesn’t […]
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 components that you can […]
Just to be clear, this is not a necessary step for us to take in our conversion process. But it’s a step that spreads some light on some of the differences regarding how you […]
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 obvious is that all […]
Now we’ve reached the point where we stop talking and start playing around with some code. As concluded in the previous post on porting strategy, we’ll simply copy the code files from the Windows […]
In our previous introductory post we set the stage for what we’re going to accomplish with this conversion. Now it’s time to take the first step. Before we dive in, lets lean back and […]
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, step by step, to […]
Even though early specifications of the limitations of low-end devices (256 MB) stated that Fast App Switching (FAS) would not be available – it actually is! It’s just so much less likely to happen […]
I’ve considered ReSharper a must-have for Visual Studio for many years, and their live templates are code snippets on steroids. Here I share with you my simple but effective template for generating properties. What […]
WebRequest and its baby sister WebClient behave differently regarding what thread they return on. This is a short post to really clarify what returns where. Summary WebClient will always return on the UI thread […]