In The Hand LtdIn my previous post I discovered a limitation with using the Share… extension point in the Photos app. The good news is that from within your own app you can open .png files. For this you can use the PhotoChooserTask which has been available since Windows Phone 7. This presents the user with essentially the […]
On Windows Phone 8 it is possible to register your app with the Share… extension point on the photo viewer. This allows your app to receive an image file and process it whether that is sending it to an online service or manipulating it on the device. I found recently an odd quirk with the […]
With the recent announcement of Windows Embedded Handheld 8 it seems fitting to discuss something related to industrial and line-of-business applications which you can develop now on the Windows Phone platform. I’ve released the first drop of 32feet.NET for Windows Phone 8 to our CodePlex site and NuGet. Because the programming model on Windows Phone […]
The Bluetooth API on Windows Phone 8 is based around some customisations to the Proximity APIs which are part of the Windows API introduced with Windows 8. When you “discover” devices you can retrieve a collection of device identifiers for paired devices. The first time you perform a task you will want to use this […]
iCalendar files are based on the set of data exchange specifications which also includes vCards. You may come across them either in emails or from a website. For example some sites which sell travel tickets allow you to download your itinerary in an iCalendar file. While Windows Phone has always supported vCards for contact information […]
I have ported René Schulte‘s excellent WriteableBitmapEx project to run on Windows Embedded Compact 7. The original library supports drawing across various XAML user interfaces – Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows 8 Apps. Because XAML In The Hand exposes an object model which matches Silverlight there was very little work required to port, it […]
Now that there is a new release of Team Foundation Server you may consider upgrading. However if you still work on projects for the .NET Compact Framework you’ll still be using Visual Studio 2008. Luckily there is an update available to allow VS2008 to connect to a TFS2012 server or the new Team Foundation Service […]
If you publish apps on the old Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.x you should have received reminders that the service will be discontinued in two weeks. If you have been using our Mobile In The Hand product with a managed code app there are a couple of issues to be aware of. Our libraries contain […]
At MWC today Nokia announced the Lumia 610 which is a lower spec device designed for emerging markets. This is running an updated Windows Phone OS which supports devices with just 256MB of RAM. To enable developers to create apps which support the new lower memory devices Microsoft are releasing an update to the Windows […]
The latest update to Tasks is now available in the Marketplace. This release continues the improvements to the sync experience by providing more resilience in situations where the network drops out during a sync. It also improves the reminders feature in Windows 7.5 and improves the display of reminders for tasks with very long titles. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/55fcf880-6b03-e011-9264-00237de2db9e […]
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