Recently I faced a scenario where I needed to know if the user had internet connection or not. The application is running on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 and…
Blend and the visual designer in Visual Studio is relying on the content first principle. Therefor will most of the UI Elements be invisible when we data bind them to…
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…
The new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library from Microsoft is a performant nuget package to recognize text from images and with an API that is easy to use. The library…
The API of the new MapControl in Windows Phone 8.1 have many changes compared to the map controls in Phone 8.0. Gone is the old MapLayer and MapOverlay and you…
I recently held a lab about the different techniques on how to share files in a Windows Universal app, thought I would share it . Usually files can be put…
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…
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. 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…
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. 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. The series is written in collaboration with Microsoft evangelist Peter Bryntesson, check out his blog…
On windows phone, one of the most striking design feature is the handling of type. The bold use of headlines, how text and type is used to not only to…
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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