Async System.Net.WebClient for Windows Phone 8
Started working on a WP8 project tonight and much to my dismay, TPL was not added to System.Net.WebClient of the WP8 SDK like it was slapped all over WinRT. So what to do? Well, I did what I did when I...
View ArticleWarning: Your WP7 app’s Extensibility hooks didn’t come forward to its WP8...
I found out today, via an error report from the field no less, that one of my apps which uses some of the Extensibility hooks (aka App Connect) that were released as part of WP7 Mango doesn’t work on...
View ArticleUpdate on WP8 Extensibility hooks
Last week I sent this to Windows Phone Dev Support: One of my Apps uses the Search Extensibility capability. After WP8 was released, the version I had on the market, which was supposed to have been...
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Creating .netitude, for Windows Phone
Because you haven’t read enough of them, this is yet another blog post on Microsoft’s new Windows Phone App Studio – the online “point & shoot” method of creating an app for Windows Phone (8)....
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Pimp your app with AppAdditives
Getting your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app published is only half the battle. Marketing is the other half. The folks at ExGrip have now made this insanely easy with App Additives. In this post, I’ma...
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Localizing your app name and tile on Windows Phone 8
This past week we’ve been presented with quite a few reasons to make sure that when we develop, we’re thinking globally, not just locally in terms of who’s going to be using and downloading our app:...
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Multilingual App Toolkit – Give your app some global appeal
Sure, you’re a good dev and you know that you should be putting all your strings in a RESX file if for no other reason than to centralize them so you only have to update them in one place. And maybe...
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WP dev user review responses: good, bad, or ugly?
All over the news lately is the new release of the ability for Windows Phone developers to respond to user reviews via the dev center, something of which any developer can immediately see the value....
View ArticleProgrammatically changing UI language in Windows Phone
If you’ve done globally-focused development on Windows Phone, you already know that to change the display language, you have to do so in the Settings area of the phone, then reboot the emulator (or...
View ArticleRemoving Ads with an IAP – the Declarative way
Microsoft’s XAML provides a way for us to define our UI in a declarative manner. Combined with databinding it means you should – in almost every case – never have to directly reference a UI control to...
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