The page header is the small text you see across the top of most apps, often in all uppercase. When you create a new Windows Phone app from the default templates you’ll get something like this created in your MainPage.xaml… Continue reading

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

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

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

I recently needed to create a prototype for a Windows Phone application and having recently discovered it I decided to use Indigo Studio to build it. The application is not particularly designed for Windows Phone however it has enough standard… Continue reading

In 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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading