Monthly Archives: November 2011

BindableApplicationBar RC1 + Windows Phone Prism Application Template

Posted on Sunday, 2011-11-13 by

Today marks the RC1 release of the BindableApplicationBar. I have spent some time today to do some StyleCop and documentation cleanup and it seems ready. You can grab a zip file with the binary directly from here. Another part of … Continue reading →

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Good Vibrations on Windows Phone

Posted on Friday, 2011-11-11 by

I thought I’d do something foolish today and decided to play with a Windows Phone API I never used before – the VibrateController. How about playing back a rhythm? I coded up a very simple API to play back sequences … Continue reading →

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The quest for a Bindable ApplicationBar – Part 3

Posted on Thursday, 2011-11-10 by

This is it – for now at least. The BindableApplicationBar meets all the original requirements and while I found some new ones that might be achievable – it might already be in many ways the richest solution to the problem. … Continue reading →

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Using a UserControl in a Windows Phone app instead of a PhoneApplicationPage

Posted on Tuesday, 2011-11-08 by

Saw a weird problem today – an app would break when navigating to a certain page if it was not running under the debugger. Then I found it was actually navigating forward out of the application and to the Windows … Continue reading →

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Dissecting WinRT UserControl

Posted on Monday, 2011-11-07 by

UserControl seems to be one of the most commonly used controls in XAML languages. It most often is at the root of your XAML file structure and usually encapsulates reusable pieces of XAML. Let’s take a look at the class … Continue reading →

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Beginning WinRT development

Posted on Monday, 2011-11-07 by

I finally found some time to take a look at Windows 8 development + a shiny Build edition Samsung Series 7 Slate device, so it is time to start taking apart this WinRT development thing.I am starting by setting up … Continue reading →

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WordPress and Live Writer

Posted on Saturday, 2011-11-05 by

<Rant>I kinda like Live Writer for being a desktop app with rich “WYSIWYG” editing, plug-ins, etc. but it is also pretty limited. I tried updating some old posts to have them all use Calibri and instead of getting the old … Continue reading →

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