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…
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…
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We will during the next few weeks together with Microsoft evangelist Peter Bryntesson post a series of blog post regarding the new windows phone 8.1 platform. We will publish our…
Did you know you can control how Blend interprets your drag’n dropping of UI elements when modifying your Visual State changes? Until recently I did not, so let me show…
Do you need to control the visual state of your view from its view model? This blog post will present a simple but useful solution.
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How can you deal with one of the bigger problems in client development; the increasing fragmentation that is a result of multiple size, resolution and pixel density in the displays…
I recently received a comment from a Windows Phone owner questioning if one of my apps were spyware because of all the capabilities it required. The reason might be obvious for us developers but we can lose users if we don’t explain it better for them.