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  • Nokia CR-201 Car Charger with Lumia 930 Review

    I recently got a Lumia 930 and was looking for a simple car holder/charger for it. I saw the CR-201 (which is updated from the CR-200 and advertised as compatible with the 930) and thought it would be perfect because:-… Continue reading

  • ProgressRing for Windows Phone updated

    Last month I posted the latest “charming” helper for Windows development which is a Windows Phone (8.0 or Silverlight 8.1) ProgressRing with the same appearance as its big Windows counterpart. Today I’ve just pushed an update to NuGet which improves… Continue reading

  • Data Settings for Nokia Lumia 930 O2 UK (Pay Monthly)

    When I first setup this phone and swapped my account over to a new nano-SIM I received a message from O2 that my data and picture messaging settings couldn’t be automatically setup (don’t you just love progress). I had to… Continue reading

  • Rating control for Windows Phone 8.1 Apps

    In Silverlight 8.x you can use the Toolkit Rating control to provide standard star rating functionality in your app. If you’re moving to a Windows Phone 8.1 App project you can’t use the Silverlight based toolkit and there isn’t a… Continue reading

  • Charming Share now “lights up” on Windows Phone 8.1

    Charming Share provides a share API for Windows Phone 8.0 projects which mimics the built in support in various system apps and exposes an API which is the same as that available in Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. Now… Continue reading

  • Clipboard API for Windows Phone 8.1

    In the latest release of Charming Share which is now live on NuGet I’ve added a new Clipboard API. For Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 Silverlight apps this wraps the existing Silverlight functionality. For Windows Phone Store 8.1 applications this provides… Continue reading

  • Silverlight 8.1 Developers – Know Your Manifests!

    I’m just passing this on because I’ve been stung by a couple of gotchas introduced with SL8.1 which only seem obvious after you’ve fixed them:- If your application implements a custom Uri scheme you probably think you just have to… Continue reading

  • //publish/ Event Manchester

    If you haven’t already heard, we are running a developer event for Windows app developers in Manchester on the 16th and 17th May as part of the global //publish/ event. Pete has more details on his blog post here so… Continue reading

  • New Languages in Windows Phone 8.1

    One of the more subtle improvements in 8.1 is the addition of a few new UI languages which are:- Afrikaans (af-ZA) Basque (eu-ES) Galician (gl-ES) Hausa (ha-Latn-NG) The full list for comparison across 8.1, 8.0 and 7.1 is here:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202918(v=vs.105).aspx Continue reading

  • WebAuthenticationBroker for Windows Phone Silverlight 8.x

    In Windows Phone 8.1 both the Silverlight and Windows App programming models introduce the WebAuthenticationBroker class. This is inherited from “big” windows but with a change to reflect differences in the app model. Rather than operate as an asynchronous method… Continue reading