If you want to get started with Windows Phone 8.1, there are 2 big options: “I’m completely new to Windows Phone development.” You need the Absolute Beginner Series for Windows Phone 8.1 It is a complete course in getting started for Windows Phone 8.1. It is 30 videos that are 10-20 minutes long. You can get the source…
As of July, 2104, this works for Windows 8 (and greater) and Windows Phone 8 (and greater). All the icons are listed below in images grabbed from Jonathan Antoine’s WinJS centeric post. Just pick out the icon you want based on the sheet below and replace “/u” with “&#x”. Your XAML markup should look something…
I’m going to do this backwards. I’ll start assuming you already have your vector icon in XAML. Then, how to import your vector icon from Illustrator to XAML. The basics: Your button should look like this: <AppBarButton x:Name=”MyButton” Label=”do stuff” Style=”{StaticResource HeadphoneVectorIcons}”/> And the style should look like this: <Style x:Key=”HeadphoneVectorIcons” TargetType=”ButtonBase”>…
This is for getting a GridView to use the same drag-down = select, tap = action interaction model that we see on the Windows 8 start screen. In your GridView, create a copy of the default ItmeContainerStyle. You can do this by right clicking on the GridView in the designer space (or in the document tree)…
Of all the silly tricks I know, none is more engaging than solving a Rubik’s. The reason for this is because the Rubik’s cube is something that everyone has played around with but few people have solved. Being able to solve one gives other people the impression that you have a savant-like intellect and it’s…
Some time ago I wrote an overview of data visualization styles along with a visualization tutorial for the book “Beautiful Visualization“. For the tutorial, I chose a set of data from a government website, figuring that the data would be available for a substantial amount of time. Apparently the data was recently removed, which makes…
(There are spoilers to pretty much the entire run of Dexter here.) I am a huge Dexter fan and I was pretty upset about the end of Dexter this past week. The reason is less because it was a terrible ending and more because that last episode (actually, most of the whole last season) betrayed…
I co-hosted this weeks Inside Windows Phone, talking about the Nokia Imaging SDK (which is pretty awesome). I would consider it a starting point for any app I write that involves image editing in any way. Check out the post for more information on how to get the sample app in this video and how…
This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. Calculating the distance between two GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8 is about as simple as it can get. First, get a GeoCoordinate. One handy way of doing this is to get the location of…