Over the last decade, almost all software has made huge leaps in usability.
Browsers have gotten tabs, you can do everything off-line and interfaces are
slicker than ever. And then there’s the windows command-prompt. Nothing has
changed over the last decade or longer. It...
NuGet is awesome! There are so many packages though that it’s very difficult to
know which ones are useful and which can be missed.
Therefore I have created a list of the NuGet packages that I find most useful
when developing for Windows Phone...
Earlier I wrote a blog post on a specific method to implement code sharing
between Windows Store and Windows Phone applications
[https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/02/24/patterns-for-sharing-code-in-windows-phone-and-windows-8-applications/]
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In this post I want to zoom out a little bit and look at the different...
Background
With the latest batch of releases in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Microsoft has
been trying to close the gap between both development platforms. (The old “write
once, run everywhere”-idea)
Although both platforms are based on the same Windows 8 kernel, there...
I started developing my XBMC Remote for Windows 8 RT / Metro and I have come
across a nice little feature in the API which I want to share. For Windows
Phone, I had to create all the icons myself. Visual Studio 2012, creates a file...