In Windows 8, you have to right-click devenv.exe and select "Troubleshoot compatibility". Select "Troubleshoot program...
Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Windows Phone Crosswords
In this article I'll explain how to create a new game, a newspaper-style crossword puzzle, by using the Windows Phone framework to acces...
.NET technique for converting large text files into XML structures intended for Android objects
There are many methods available out on the web for performing large file ingestion and translating the resulting data sets into XML data wh...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Improve Productivity using Quick Launch
Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Improve Productivity using Quick Launch "Quick Launch" is a new feature in Visual Studio 2012. If you used...
Fixing problems with Background Tasks in WP
Recently here at Windows Phone Central we've received a few help requests through our app from users who's live tiles all appear to ...
Application name matters in Window Phone
If you are developing an application for your company with a brand name or if you are developing the next Angry Bird game with a cool new na...
XAML binding resources from a separate assembly
Following the session that Glenn (twitter) and I presented at Community Day 2012 as members of the Belgian Windows Phone User Group, we'...
Seeding your Metro style app with a SQLite database
It looks like people are really glad about being able to use SQLite within their Metro style apps. I had written two previous posts (Using S...
Microsoft explains why it killed the Windows 8 Start button
Microsoft removed the Start button from Windows 8's Consumer Preview version earlier this year, generating a lot of discussion and mixed...
Improve Productivity using Visual Studio 2012 Default Browser Switcher
If you are a web developer and use Visual Studio to design and develop web applications, this post will help you to improve your productivit...
Building a WP Count Down Timer app Step by Step
The main goal is to create an app that allows the user to enter a time and automatically starts counting down the seconds until it reaches 0...
WP: Dynamically toggle PanoramaItem visibility
A strange issue with the Panorama control, that has been brought to my attention by @lancewmccarthy, and which has also been encountered by ...
Monday, July 2, 2012
Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to Improve Productivity
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC is now available for public download. There are plenty of new enhancements in this release of Visual Studio ...
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Refactor your Code easily using the Visual Studio 2012
In our last blog post we discussed about browser switching mechanism in Visual Studio 2012 for web developers to test their web applications...
A gesture-driven Windows Phone to-do application Part Two – drag re-ordering
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about a todo list application which uses gestures to achieve its basic functions, a left swipe deletes an it...
Making Your Own MySQL Backup and Restore Tools in C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET - MySqlBackup.DLL (Supports Unicode, UTF8)
This article introduce a tool (DLL) that can backup/restore MySQL database in .NET Programming Language and some sample codes on how to use ...
Why most of Windows Phone apps that connect with Facebook will stop working on July 5, 2012
When developing apps that connects to social networks like Facebook or Twitter, the common practice is to show the user a web control that a...
Process Lifetime Management (PLM) and Managing State in Windows8 Metro C# Applications
In the traditional Windows environment, the user manages the lifetime of their applications. The user launches the application and it contin...
Windows 8 Apps – Keeping it Simple
We have all been is situations where we have seen code implemented in an unnecessarily complex way or where the number of features in an app...
Designing MetroTwit for Windows 8
We know it's still a bit rough around the edges and not feature complete but we hope it offers a teaser of what we think will be a compe...
