In The Hand Ltd

Charming

  • InTheHand.UI v9.0

    I’ve updated InTheHand on NuGet and added the accompanying library containing UI functionality (InTheHand.UI). The main shared piece of functionality here is the MessageDialog (ala Windows.UI.Popups) and this works across all the Windows platforms (Including Windows Phone Silverlight) and iOS… Continue reading

  • Charming Storage Update

    I’ve just released an update to Charming Storage on NuGet. After a lot of use in Windows Phone 8.1 projects I’ve reworked the TryGetItemAsync StorageFolder extension method to improve the performance. On average it is now takes 1/4 of the time… Continue reading

  • Charming Updates

    I’ve made a couple of steps forward with the Charming project: 1. I’ve added a new library for Windows Phone 8.0 and 8.1 Silverlight to provide a “Universal Apps” style ResourceLoader for Silverlight (.resx) resources. It currently supports the default… Continue reading

  • Get battery level on Windows and iOS

    In Windows Phone 8.1 a new API was added to both retrieve the current battery level as a percent of fully charged and also handle an event fired when the value changed. Sadly this API is not common across this… Continue reading