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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 - 804 views - 05/17/13 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/26/13)

A Critical Chrome Performance Review  For a browser that is widely considered the fastest, Alex Hastings has some quite contrary data.  His review...

0 replies - 4035 views - 02/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (1/25/13)

9 Uncomfortable Truths About Open Source  I wouldn't call them truths for sure, but this article is certainly a little sobering.  The author...

1 replies - 6270 views - 01/25/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Microsoft at the End of the World: 2012 in Review

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 - 7765 views - 12/04/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles

Build Day 1: Surface, WP8, TFS, Windows Design Guidelines

Day 1 of Microsoft Build was in some way disappointing and at the same time exhilarating. To be honest, I was expecting to be updated on the new stuff...

0 replies - 1809 views - 10/31/12 by Dennis Doomen in Articles

The Microsoft Training Kit Collection: 2012 Edition

Some years ago I published list of Microsoft training kits for developers. Now it’s time to make a little refresh and list current training kits...

1 replies - 4303 views - 10/22/12 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles

Windows Store App Development Snack: Async & Sharing

Here is an interesting issue, you need to implement a Share Source but to do the sharing you need it to be an async call. So what do you do? You can add...

0 replies - 1627 views - 10/13/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

A WinRT Behavior to Start a Storyboard on an Event

Sometimes I get a bit distracted. In this article I mention a behavior that I wrote which starts a storyboard on an event, I even put in in the win8nl library...

0 replies - 1881 views - 10/09/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles

Save the Date! For Windows Phone 8 on October 29th

If you are like me and you love Windows Phone, then you are excited about the next version (Windows Phone 8). If you are like me and you love to develop...

0 replies - 1476 views - 10/08/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Having Fun with Azure Mobile Services – Integrating with Windows 8

In the previous post we’ve introduced Azure Mobile Services and we learned how to configure and create them. If you’ve followed all the steps of the...

0 replies - 1893 views - 10/08/12 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

Windows Store App Development Snack: A Better Architecture Diagram

I have been talking a lot about Windows 8 recently and my slides have been using the architecture images Microsoft releases at Build 2011 & that...

0 replies - 1604 views - 10/07/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Portal 2: Lab Rat for Windows 8

I love Portal, both the first & second games were amazing but what happened between them is never clearly explained in the games. Valve released an...

0 replies - 1877 views - 10/06/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Facebook Integration In A Windows Phone 7 Application

Facebook is unavoidable social engagement tool. If you are building a Windows Phone 7 application for a certain event, celebrity or anything that has a...

0 replies - 1823 views - 10/05/12 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Showing an Image Background for a Search String in Windows Phone 7

On the last day of 2011 ago I made DynamicBackgroundBehavior - a quite bizarre behavior which plays a supporting role in my latest Windows Phone application...

0 replies - 1388 views - 10/05/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles

Rumor: Microsoft to Manufacture Own Phone?

The interwebs have been stirring in the past few days with rumors that Microsoft is planning to manufacture and sell its...

0 replies - 3648 views - 10/04/12 by Allen Coin in Articles