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Windows Phone

  • Nokia DT-601 Review

    As part of the New Year tidy up I decided to add a wireless charging pad to my desk so that I can easily top up devices without too many trailing wires. I saw the new second generation DT-601 and… Continue reading

  • Tasks 1.81– Now with added programmability

    In the latest update to the Windows Phone Tasks app I’ve added in some API features for other apps to hook into. This is facilitated by Windows Phone 8’s support for custom Uri schemes – the app supports the tasks:… Continue reading

  • Linking to your other apps

    Using the Windows Phone SDK the only method to return a list of your other published apps (e.g. for your About page) is to use the MarketplaceSearchTask and specify your company name in the search criteria. The problem with this… Continue reading

  • Translating Windows Phone Features

    There are a number of steps when translating a Windows Phone app. Hopefully you are using the Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/bg127574) which supports the standard XLIFF format. Often you will start with your own language string resources and then add other… Continue reading

  • Charming Storage for Windows Phone

    A tweet by @martinsuchan earlier reminded me of an issue I faced porting some code from Windows Phone to Windows Store. Moving from the Isolated Storage API to the new Windows.Storage namespace there was nothing built-in to determine if a… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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