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Microsoft Partner, Office 365 and Visual Studio Online
This is a somewhat off-topic post which only applies to Microsoft Partners who happen to use Office 365 and Visual Studio Online. As a Microsoft Silver Partner we have a number of licenses which we’re...
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Microsoft Continues the Integration Between Blend and Visual Studio
Years after Microsoft attempted to lure designers into the world of app development by giving them a tool where they could assist with the designing of applications, it appears that Microsoft still...
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Distribution of Application for the Windows Platform for Testing
Last year I wrote an article for Visual Studio Magazine entitled Enterprise Distribution of Windows Phone Applications which looks at the requirements and steps required to deploy Windows Phone...
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Build it Beta for Windows and Windows Phone
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve done some major work to Build it Beta which will significantly improve and simplify the process of getting Build it Beta installed and setup across Windows and...
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Compiled DataBinding in Windows Universal Applications (UAP)
This question on stackoverflow which references the Windows 10 jumpstart videos (http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/a-developers-guide-to-windows-10-preview?prid=ch9courselink)...
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Remote Desktop Connection Fail from Windows 10 Using Azure AD Credentials
Just over a week ago I repaved my Surface Pro 3 to a clean install of Windows 10 build 10074 (since then I've upgraded to 10122) and since we don't run our own domain at Built to Roam I figured I would...
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Visual Studio 2015 RC Crashing when installing packages with NuGet
Just spent half an hour trying to install a nuget package…. everytime Visual Studio 2015 would crash. I figured I mustn't be alone, so I went hunting. Turns out that whilst I had the most recent...
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Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft Lumia 640XL and the case of the Virtual Hardware...
The Microsoft Lumia 640 and 640XL were one of the first Windows Phone devices to take advantage of the move to on-screen hardware buttons. Rather than the traditional hardware buttons for Back, Start...
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Visual Studio 2015 RTM and the case of the missing Microsoft Advertising SDK...
I just got around to upgrading to VS2015 RTM having run the RC since it was available (just as an aside VS2015 has been the only version of Visual Studio that I've been running for quite some time...
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Launching Windows Store Applications from Code in Windows 10
On Windows 8/8.1 after installing an application from the Windows Store it was possible to interrogate the registry and find the AppUserModelId which could then be used to launch the application. This...
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Microsoft and The Smith Family via the #WeSpeakCode Program Delivers Coding...
Yesterday I had the privilege of being involved in the delivery of introductory computer science and programming material to year 10 and 11 students out at Mitchell High School in Blacktown. The...
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Application Development Using States and Transitions
Having worked with each of the different XAML based technologies Microsoft has released (WPF, SL, WP, Win, UWP...), I've long been a proponent of the use of visual states. Jerry Nixon discusses using...
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Visual Studio 2015 RTM, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Developer Tools and...
If you've upgraded to Visual Studio 2015 RTM with the associated Universal Windows Platform tools, you may have realised that you can't deploy apps to a real Windows Phone that's running the current...
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Certifying and Distributing Windows Store Applications to Earlier (ie...
In my previous post on Visual Studio 2015 RTM, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Developer Tools and Debugging on a Windows Phone device I covered modifying the TargetPlatformMinVersion property in the...
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Changing DataContext and Compiled Data Binding in Universal Windows Platform...
Back in April I talked briefly about Compiled Data Binding and how it improves performance throughout your XAML application by eliminating all the reflection calls that go on in the background with...
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Ignite Session Recordings
Earlier this month I delivered two sessions at Ignite Australia. The recording for these sessions are now available for watchingApplication Development for the Universal Windows PlatformIgnite...
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SplitView Bug in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
Last week we were trying to resolve an issue that had been raised in an application we were building for the Universal Windows Platform, where the user had to press the back button twice in order to...
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Cross Platform Visual States
Last year I posted on “Taking Visual States Cross Platform to iOS and Android with Xamarin” and is a topic that I often come back when discussing the design and development of mobile applications....
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States v’s Regions for Multi-Window Applications
In previous posts I’ve talked a lot about visual states, application state and control states. However, one thing that I’ve been trying to wrap my head around is the disconnect that happens when you...
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State Management using BuildIt.States
Over the last month or so I’ve been refactoring some code I prototyped earlier in the year that allows for easier state management within an entity. One of the outputs of this was a portable library...
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