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  • Windows Phone: App Accent Color

    The last post showed how to get the current app’s tile colour in Windows 8. What about Windows Phone? There isn’t the concept of a tile colour – you provide a full image for your app icon and tiles and… Continue reading

  • Windows Store Apps: Application Tile Colour Within an App

    When you define your package manifest for a Windows Store app you can specify the background colour used for your tile. Chances are this is a brand colour which you want to use throughout your app. You could specify it… Continue reading

  • From Isolated Storage to LocalFolder – Getting Folder Size

    If you want to determine the space used for a particular folder in Isolated Storage you have to work recursively through the files in the folder (and sub-folders) and determine their sizes. In the Windows API the StorageFolder gives the… Continue reading

  • Build Windows Phone Apps Without Any Code

    Microsoft have today announced Windows Phone App Studio Beta (https://apps.windowsstore.com/default.htm). This is a web based tool which allows you to build your own app by putting together data sources and customising the look and feel. The instructions list just four… Continue reading

  • Charming ApplicationModel

    My previous couple of posts have been related to the Sharing functionality provided by the Charming libraries. This one looks at a smaller (but no less exciting) component. For Windows Phone development if you want to retrieve the app information… Continue reading

  • A Trip Around Charming Share

    The Charming libraries for Windows Phone are a set of (currently) six components for Windows Phone development with the mission of providing more code consistency with Windows 8. Following on from the NFC component, this post will cover its cousin… Continue reading

  • Introducing Charming NFC Share

    In my talk this week I demonstrated a simple library for sharing a single Uri over NFC. I’ve now completed packaging it up and it is available on NuGet – https://www.nuget.org/packages/InTheHand.Phone.Nfc/ This is a very simple component to use in… Continue reading

  • Resources from Bluetooth and NFC for Windows Phone and Beyond

    As promised here are the resources from yesterday’s session on Bluetooth and NFC. I’ve begun uploading the slides and code to this SkyDrive folder:- http://sdrv.ms/143OZD7 I have a few finishing touches to put on the sharing library for NFC –… Continue reading

  • Page Header Styles

    The page header is the small text you see across the top of most apps, often in all uppercase. When you create a new Windows Phone app from the default templates you’ll get something like this created in your MainPage.xaml… Continue reading

  • Update to 32feet.NET for Windows Phone

    Version 8.1 of 32feet.NET for Windows Phone is now available via NuGet. This package adds some helper functionality for Bluetooth development. In particular this version includes the RfCommServiceId (designed to match the Windows 8.1 API) to provide information about various… Continue reading