Due to travel and other engagements, I’ve missed a couple of weekly links, so this one will be slightly larger. One thing I want to call out specifically is that Ben Riga and I have been working on a set of sessions on building for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Ben will be…
I had to search around for this information so I thought it would be nice to have it somewhere handy. Here’s the scenario: You want to put ads into your Windows Phone app, but only when it is in trial mode. To start: Download the Microsoft Ads SDK Sign into the Microsoft pubCenter and add…
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 Windows Phone so that I could do some updates with a PeriodicTask, but when I ran the app, I was getting: FileNotFoundException was unhandled – An unhandled exception of type…
Windows Phone Mark Cuban has a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone – and discusses this fact in standard Mark Cuban style, of course. Where to buy NFC tags and how to edit them (Adam Fraser) – Some great pointers to getting good NFC tags for sample development Registering Extensions in Windows Phone – There are a…
Windows Phone Best Apps For Your New Windows Phone Device – not at all comprehensive, but a decent starting point. Reverse GeoCode for Windows Phone 8 – Give the Nokia Map control in Windows Phone 8 a lat/lon and get an address. Must attempt. Create a Windows Phone Live Tile In the People Hub Style…
Design and Usability See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas – Written by Kevin Cheng, one of the authors of OK/Cancel, a usability comic. Recommended on Twitter by Bill Buxton Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101 (Laura Foy, Jared Potter) – 4 videos on designing for Windows Phone Windows Phone MetroEEG: Midwave…
I love the “checked” style in Windows 8. Clean, slick, I just like the style. So I implemented it in Windows Phone as a style. The color in the style matches the phone theme, so it’s pretty flexible . To get this style in your app, follow these steps. 1) Download the resource file that…
This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone. First, in the Object and Timeline select the TextBlock (or CheckBox or Button or whatever) you want to bind to: Then in the Properties tab…
I’m working on building helpers for sharing code between Windows 8 (Windows Store) and Windows Phone. Keep an eye on my github for additional updates. I love the new async-await model in .NET 4.5 (and also in .NET 4.0 if you’re interested). One of the most exciting uses of it (for me) is the ability…
Are you getting an Unauthorized Access error when trying to implement an OAuth 1.0 solution on Windows Phone? Have you checked to see if your emulator is set to the right time zone so that your timestamp is right? This was my problem. I feel very, very stupid. Other possible options include: Are you using…