
An interstitial advertisement is traditionally recognized as a full-page ad appearing between two pages. Interstitial, which means “gap” perceives a gap...
0 replies - 2428 views - 12/07/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

The past months I've been working on creating new, exciting Windows Store apps, using the Windows Library for Javascript, WinJS. Fortunately, since most...
0 replies - 2674 views - 12/07/12 by Mariano Vazquez in Articles

Are you looking for a little extra cash for the upcoming holidays? Then you might be interested in creating some cool apps to sell in the Windows Store. Or...
0 replies - 2961 views - 12/06/12 by Clint Edmonson in Articles

This is a combined post of part 1, 2, and three especially united for my readers. in this episode I have a lot of fun with Buck Woody who has forgotten more...
0 replies - 2400 views - 12/06/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Nokia has recently announced a new initiative for Windows Phone developer that is really interesting. At the same price of a standard Windows Phone account for...
0 replies - 1842 views - 12/05/12 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

The end of the world must be coming. Not because the Mayan calendar says so, but because Microsoft is innovating more than Apple. It has been a crazy year,...
0 replies - 7859 views - 12/04/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles

tl;dr; Put code where it is defined. It makes maintenance much easier.This has become a bit of a pet-peeve of mine lately. Please indulge me while I share.I...
0 replies - 3746 views - 12/03/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

One of the declarations you can have with a Windows Store app is the file type association, which lets file types become associated with your application. This...
0 replies - 1690 views - 12/03/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Creating applications from default templates without understanding them might introduce serious bugs in your application. Consider the simple Windows...
0 replies - 1863 views - 12/02/12 by Toni Petrina in Articles

When you are configuring the appxmanifest for your Windows Store app, one of the options is the background colour for the tile – YOU SHOULD ALWAYS SET...
0 replies - 1633 views - 11/30/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

This is in response to a comment on my post about the undocumented way I found of creating a xap file you can't deploy to a #wp8 device. In...
0 replies - 3379 views - 11/29/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

Attached is a worksheet that might help you when you’re brainstorming the design of your Windows 8 app.It encourages the 3-tier navigation...
0 replies - 2851 views - 11/29/12 by Jeremy Foster in Articles

Just a short note to let you know, that the SQL Server Compact Toolbox add-in has been updated beginning of this month to support the following new...
0 replies - 2701 views - 11/29/12 by Erik Ejlskov Jensen in Articles

In Windows Phone 7[.x] background agents would expire (stop working/running) if an app wasn't launched for 14 days. Today I noticed in MSDN that...
0 replies - 2477 views - 11/28/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

"Deployment failed." It's not a message you want to see when deploying your app to a device. Especially if you've previously deployed to the emulator without...
0 replies - 2487 views - 11/28/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles