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…
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…
Man those little problems that should never be problems can be annoying – I just solved another one and would like to share. In short: make sure your resource files…
Parsing text is everywhere these days. Having a human readable-friendly data format is very compelling, and json one of the big players in this area. I often find myself copying…
Ok so that might be a bit overdramatic but now that I have your attention, please continue... :) Here's the thing I love the asynchronous programming model that comes with…
Microsoft have announced the exams for becoming MCSD on Windows 8, they are now in beta stage. I here present to you links for the skills measured for the exam…
Microsoft has launched a Team Foundation Service (http://tfspreview.com/). It is Team Foundation Server in the cloud. There is source control, continuous builds, test running and agile planning functions. All this…
In Windows 8 Metro apps, the navigation model has been improved over the previous one found on Windows Phone. One difference is that page caching has to be manually enabled…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, Microsoft kicked of the BUILD conference with the keynote introducing Windows 8. It was clear that they had taken a page from other companies in keeping everything as secret…