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  • Sending an Email with an Attachment on Windows Phone (Sort of)

    From it’s initial release Windows Phone has had a method to programmatically send an email from code. In keeping with the mantra that the user is in control it has always been a method to populate the email but allow… Continue reading

  • Deployment Parts in a Windows Phone App

    My apologies in advance as this is a little bit of an obscure scenario but I thought I’d share this information in case others found it useful. Imagine if you will the following scenario. You have a dll project which… Continue reading

  • Installing Windows 8.1 Preview onto a UK Surface RT

    It soon became clear that the Preview update package supports only a small subset of languages and while US English is of course supported the update would refuse to install on a device running UK English. I first followed these… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Development with Windows 8.1

    Unless you’ve been stuck under a rock (in which case what are you doing reading this?) you’ll know that Microsoft announced a preview release of Windows 8.1 at Build yesterday. While I haven’t got a development machine up and running… Continue reading

  • Moving from WinForms to XAML Runtime on Windows Embedded Compact

    I recently found an old set of slides I created for TechEd NZ a few years ago which collected together useful information for moving from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone. It struck me that some of this would also be… Continue reading

  • NFC Text tags on WinRT

    To follow the last post I thought I would quickly round it off by looking at the code required to listen for tags on a Windows 8/RT device. Devices with NFC built in are like hens teeth but one such… Continue reading

  • NFC – Simple text tags on Windows Phone

    This article follows on from the last post on NFC to dig a little deeper on Windows Phone and Windows 8 (both of which share the same APIs for NFC). Requirement or just Capability In Windows Phone you have to… Continue reading

  • Cross Platform NFC

    NFC support in Windows Phone provides an exciting new way to add interactivity to apps and games. This series of posts will look at the state of NFC across the Windows and Android platforms. There are a number of standard… Continue reading

  • Use Team Foundation Service for Embedded Projects

    Microsoft’s hosted TFS (http://tfs.visualstudio.com/) provides a cloud hosted TFS project collection which is free for small teams. It works neatly with VS2012 which is fine for Windows Store and Windows Phone project types but for .NET Compact Framework development we… Continue reading

  • Launching PDF Documents

    In Windows Phone 8 the Windows.System.Launcher class allows you to open files with apps which are registered to handle them. On Windows Phone you have built in support for Office documents and audio and video formats. Lets say you want… Continue reading