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The Danger of Setting CacheMode to BitmapCache on Windows 8
This week has been full of interesting challenges as we worked to release another Windows 8 application for a client. Credit must go to the client who has set the expectation bar at an incredibly high...
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Using Build it Beta to Test and Deploy your Windows Phone Applications
Over the last year we’ve been working on Build it Beta to assist Windows Phone developers deploy and test their applications. To get started, follow the setup instructions for Build it Beta Here’s a...
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Organisations that discard TFS in favour of Git are throwing out the baby...
A number of clients that I’ve worked with over the past couple of years have made the decision to abandon their internally hosted Team Foundation Server (TFS) in favour of a Git. Some have decided that...
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Intercepting DataContext Change in Windows and Windows Phone
Often when working with UserControls you need to wire/unwire logic when the DataContext of the control changes (eg it’s used on a page and the viewmodel which is bound to the page flows into the...
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Aligning Characters and Spacing in Windows 8.1
When designing applications for Windows Phone we spend a lot of time aligning the left edge of virtually everything to either each other or to the imaginary grid drawn over the page. Unfortunately the...
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Building Charming Apps for Windows and Windows Phone
Fellow MVP and owner of In the Hand, Peter Foot has published a number of helper classes for developers targeting both Windows and Windows Phone. I particularly love that these enable developers to...
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Sochi Apps for Windows Phone but not Windows
The Unwired has a good summary of the two Windows Phone applications covering the Sochi winter Olympics. I had already downloaded them yesterday and must admit I was quite impressed with the attention...
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Bridging the Gap – One of the perils of Software Development
This morning one of my “connections” over on LinkedIn posted this image illustrating the difference between what a client wants and what they have budget to pay for:This made me think of all the parts...
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Build it Beta is now public for Windows Phone app developers
This is the first in what will be a number of posts talking about Build it Beta for Windows Phone as we bring this service online. I’ll keep this nice and short to begin with as this is really just a...
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Windows Phone Application Testing with Build it Beta
Yesterday I announced that Build it Beta is now public for Windows Phone app developers, but what is Build it Beta? Well it’s all about Windows Phone Application Testing. There are a number of existing...
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Build it Beta gets Isolated Storage Exploring in Feedback Tool
If you haven’t already started Windows Phone Application Testing with Build it Beta then I’d encourage you to check it out and start using it to deploy test builds of your Windows Phone applications...
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Building Apps for OneNote for Windows Phone, Windows Store and other platforms
There are newly published apis for accessing OneNote that you can get started building apps for today. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn575420(v=office.15).aspxWPCentral has good...
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Coded Design Time Data using Mvvmcross for Windows and Windows Phone
A question came in today regarding the use of design time data in conjunction with Mvvmcross. My initial response was “it just works” because I assumed that everyone does design time data in Blend….....
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Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Power Tools
Last week at BUILD, Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC, which includes the new Windows Phone 8.1 SDK.I’m sure there will be a lot of blog posts talking about the new...
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Developing for Windows Phone 8.1 using XAML
By far the most common way to build Windows Phone applications is to use XAML and C# (or VB). In this case the XAML is a variant on Silverlight, which made it very easy for developers building...
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Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator
In my previous post on Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Power Tools I looked at the developer power tools that are available from within Visual Studio. In this post we’ll look at the new Windows Phone 8.1...
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Windows Phone 8.1 APPX Code Signing Weird Error When Installing
Over the last couple of days I’ve been trying to diagnose what we were doing wrong when code signing a Windows Phone 8.1 APPX file in preparation for enterprise distribution. The signing process...
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When Lists aren’t Vertical or Horizontal – Going Diagonal with Windows...
The designer for a project we’re currently working on just pitched an idea where there would be a list of items that were presented along a diagonal. Back in Silverlight this probably would have been...
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Breaking apart the Windows Phone 8.1 ComboBox Style and Colors
Yesterday I had an interesting, if not a little frustrating, time pulling apart the default style of the Windows Phone 8.1 ComboBox. Before I start I’ve put together a series of images showing various...
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Multiple Flyout Templates for ComboBox and Changing the Header
Following my previous post Breaking apart the Windows Phone 8.1 ComboBox Style and Colors a reader asked me:- How to vary the flyout template so that each combobox could have a different appearance-...
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