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Windows Phone Apps - Saved Photos to the User and Back

For more than one scenario, the developer might want to have access to the pictures stored in the device photo hub. That can be done in two ways - either by...

0 replies - 1150 views - 05/17/13 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 393 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 414 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

How to Deal with WebView and Overlaying Elements in Windows 8

The WebView control is very useful to display HTML pages and elements into a Windows Store application. For example, I use in my blog’s application to...

0 replies - 2480 views - 12/11/12 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

DevRadio: Developing your Windows 8 Apps using Visual C++

Jerry Nixon welcomes Eric Battalio, Ayman Shoukry and Raman Sharma from the Visual C++ team as they discuss how you can develop Windows 8 apps using C++....

0 replies - 2321 views - 12/11/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Going Old School on Windows 8

The other day I was browsing some archives on an old disk drive and came across the T64 formatted binaries of some demo software I wrote for the Commodore 64...

0 replies - 1669 views - 12/10/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Who’s on 8? Xploding Boxes

Xploding boxes is a great game that has the right combination of being simple to learn and quick to play with increasing levels to make it one of the most...

0 replies - 1840 views - 12/09/12 by Jim O' Neil in Articles

Walkthrough: Building a Sweet Dial in XAML for Windows 8

Custom XAML controls are a breeze. But, honestly, if you aren’t familiar with building them, there’s a learning curve. Let’s break this...

0 replies - 2420 views - 12/09/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

A Story-Based Approach to "Testing for Continuous Delivery"

Microsoft Downloads - Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012Testing is potentially an obstacle to agile software deployment. The...

0 replies - 2846 views - 12/05/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

I Wish C# Didn't Throw When Iterating Over Null Collections

Consider the following code:List<string> list = null; foreach (var element in list) //... NullReferenceException aboveBoom, in your face! We want to...

8 replies - 2726 views - 12/01/12 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Geek Art: Lovely Guide Posters for Windows Phone, Azure, and Hyper-V

As they say, a picture can be worth a thousand APIs (or something like that), so I’ve pulled together a few of the very cool posters (Windows...

0 replies - 2242 views - 11/27/12 by Jim O' Neil in Articles

31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #14 Geolocation

This article is Day #14 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8.  Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...

0 replies - 1662 views - 11/25/12 by Jeff Blankenburg in Articles

31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #12: Background Tasks

This article is Day #12 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8.  Each of the articles in this series will be published for...

0 replies - 1896 views - 11/23/12 by Jeff Blankenburg in Articles

Visual Studio 2012 – Visual Options

 It was a little while ago that I blogged about Richard Bank’s approach to revert the menu in Visual Studio 2012 back to the friendly and reliable...

0 replies - 2124 views - 11/22/12 by Rob Sanders in Articles

Key Tenets and Skills for a Windows 8 Developer

You’re considering getting your own application into the Windows Store, but not sure where to begin? Well, we all started somewhere, and although...

0 replies - 3358 views - 11/18/12 by Jim O' Neil in Articles