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Windows Phone

  • 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

  • App Crashes on Launch as Beta (Works Side-loaded)

    I came across this issue with a test app which had been working fine either when debugging or deploying the XAP file directly. Then I set up a beta and when installed the app just starts and immediately stops. Since… Continue reading

  • Charming Display

    The latest addition to the “Build Charming Apps for Windows Phone” libraries addresses a couple of properties required to support different screen sizes. I decided I wanted a simple way to retrieve the DPI and Scale factor (real not emulated)… Continue reading

  • What does Commerce Expansion Adjustment mean to me?

    Windows Phone developers have received an email about the upcoming changes to make mobile operator billing available in more countries. In particular markets from March 2014 this means that there will be an additional deduction from your revenue for these… Continue reading