Matthias Shapiro

microsoft windows phone evangelist, infovis enthusiast

  • This week, I’m in Hanoi Vietnam, helping with the WOWZAPP 2012 Windows hackathon. As part of my participation in WOWZAPP, I gave a presentation this morning entitled: Windows Phone 8 – More Than An App in which I spoke on …

  • OK, Cory Doctorow, let’s see if this works. I’ve written a chapter on storytelling and information visualization for O’Reilly media to publish in the book Beautiful Visualization. And you can read it for free. I’m making my chapter of …

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Calculating Distance From 2 GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8

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This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here.

Reverse Geocoding in Windows Phone 8

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This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here.

Finding and Mapping a Route in Windows Phone 8

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This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. One

Using Offline Maps in Windows Phone 8

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This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. I love

Game Of Thrones Chapter Explorer Visualization

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If you're familiar with the Game of Thrones HBO series, you may know it's derived from the Song of Ice and Fire books by

Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile

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I have a sample that I use when serializing data in order to save it to a StorageFile in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. It

Weekly Links – 2-11-2012

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Due to travel and other engagements, I’ve missed a couple of weekly links, so this one will be slightly larger. One thing

Using an AdControl in a Trial App (Windows Phone)

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I had to search around for this information so I thought it would be nice to have it somewhere handy. Here’s the scenario:

Weekly Links, January 15 2013

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Windows Phone Limiting TextBox Input To Integers in Windows Phone – Simple enough, but I use it every couple of

Windows Phone ScheduledTask Agents and FileNotFoundException

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Maybe this is a problem that I’m all alone on, but it took me some time to figure out. I started up a ScheduledAgent for