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… Read More »How to use Windows 8 font icons in XAML
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… Read More »Calculating Distance From 2 GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8
This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. Reverse geocoding is the process of getting an address… Read More »Reverse Geocoding in Windows Phone 8
This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. One of the really cool and powerful things in… Read More »Finding and Mapping a Route in Windows Phone 8
This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. I love the offline maps feature in Windows Phone.… Read More »Using Offline Maps in Windows Phone 8
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 looks a little something… Read More »Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile
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… Read More »Weekly Links 12-18-2012
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… Read More »Windows 8 Style CheckBox/RadioButton in Windows Phone
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.… Read More »Windows Phone StringFormat Binding And Blend
Now that we’ve looked at some basics for writing HTML/JS apps in Windows Phone and we’ve looked at an example of initiating the camera, we’ve probably hit a snag where… Read More »Debugging an HTML5 Windows Phone App