Creating Android Services with C# One of the great things about Mono is that it lets you use tools like C# and the .NET Framework t...
Showing posts with label Visual Studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Studio. Show all posts
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins
This is the second in my series of articles on extending Visual Studio. In this article we're going to look into a way to extend Visu...
Routing in ASP.NET MVC
MVC will create a control over how URLs are mapped to your controllers. It also gives you the ability to define your own URLs. These URLs...
NotifyIcon with WPF applications
NotifyIcon is an utility form System.Windows.Forms which can be used by any application to invoke the default notification from the syst...
Func and Action Delegates
The .Net Framework 3.5 has introduced two sets of System-Defined Delegates named Func andAction. Action<> and Func<> are extr...
Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion
In Part 3 of this little mini-series on data binding in Windows 8 we looked at Element Binding. Today, we'll take a look at Data Conv...
Telerik Loves Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTMs!
Yesterday's release of Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012 marks the beginning of a new era. In some ways, VS2012 and...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Entity Framework & WP: Part 3
In the first two parts we used Entity Framework to create a model to keep track of ideas for other app, generated a .sdf database file, g...
WP8 Battery API
The Battery API makes a nice addition to the WP8 SDK. I can see in the near future that some applications will display the battery metric...
Visual Studio 2012 is releasing on 15th August 2012
Yes, you read the title right. Just after the announcement of Windows 8 RTM, Microsoft announced the release date of Visual Studio 2012. ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
WPF Stylizing RowDefinitions & ColumnDefinitions
My favorite part of programming in WPF is the ease with which we compartmentalize the application components. Every Page or UserControl o...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Telerik Silverlight & WPF Controls Q2’12 SP1 Release is Here - with PivotGrid CTP
In keeping with one of our favorite traditions, it is a great pleasure to announce the first service pack of Q2 for RadControls for Silve...
Monday, July 30, 2012
WP8 to feature expanded Bluetooth functionality, access to stack and transfer
One area that Windows Phone has been lacking is the ability to do anything with Bluetooth besides connect to hands-free headsets or speak...
WP8 Application platform detailed
The relatively big news today is the sudden appearance of the soon to be released Windows Phone 8 Developer Preview SDK which has leaked ...
Friday, July 27, 2012
Entity Framework & WP: Part 1
Back when I got my first Windows Phone (November 2010), I started taking a look at developing for the platform. I found that there was no...
SSL Socket support in WP
As discussed before, Windows Phone Mango brought the socket support to Windows Phone app developers. Unfortunately the platform doesn...
WP8 to feature developer access to Voice Command features
In what should be a very exciting addition for developers in Windows Phone 8, access to Voice Command (aka TellMe) should rank up there f...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
How to add a settings menu in a Windows 8 Metro-style app
In Windows 8 development, there are some differences between the Javascript and XAML APIs. Some things are available in JS but not in XAM...
SEO for WP Marketplace
After my first windows phone application jOS went live I was really worried about the prospects of anyone finding my application in the r...
Disabling Design Time Data in a WP App
In the previous article, I discussed creating and working with Expression Blend design time data in Windows Phone applications. I'm g...
