Author Archives: MSicc
Game Review: EA Real Racing 2 for Windows Phone
It has been a very long time now that I did my last game review, but Real Racing 2 somehow made me changing this. Although the game is a Lumia Exclusive and has a relatively high price ($4.99/€4,99), I love racing games. After playing around with the trial version, it was clear that I’ll [...]
How to format Date and Time on Windows Azure
Phew, my first post about my journey on starting development on Windows Azure. I started a few weeks ago using the Mobile Services from Windows Azure, and I did learn a lot about it. This post is about formatting Date and Time strings, because Azure uses a different format than my Windows Phone app. If [...]
Editorial: Samsung Ativ S – a Windows Phone that should not be
I managed to get my hands on a Samsung Ativ S recently and to play around with it a bit. This post is about my experience. First, of course I am happy about every OEM that releases a Windows Phone Device. But Samsung achieved something I never thought it would happen to me: I wish [...]
How to search the Windows Phone Store within your app
I am currently working on my NFC app, and I want to make it easier for the end user to search for the AppId which you need for the LaunchApp record. So I thought about a possible solution for this, and of course the easiest way is to search the app. If you only want [...]
Dev Story Series (Part 5 of many): Styling a WebView or WebBrowser element
This post is about styling our WebView or WebBrowser in our app. Until now, we only got the HTML string that we are displaying in our WebView or WebBrowser. It looks like this: The content we receive from our WordPress post content includes already all kind of HTML tags like paragraphs, lists, links, images. That [...]
Announcement: beta test for NFC Toolkit
NFC Toolkit, my latest app project, is ready for a first beta look. If you want to take part in this beta, please consider following points before applying: You need a WP8 device with NFC You will need NFC tags for now, as communication between devices is still in development You are willing to [...]
Application ID’s of built in Windows Phone 8 apps
As you may have noticed, I am currently working on an NFC app. Development goes pretty well at the moment, thanks to the absolutely awesome and easy to use NDEF library by Andreas Jakl. If you want to open apps from your app or from an NFC tag, you will need to use the [...]
Tags: AppId, built in, launchApp, NFC, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8, WP8, wp8dev, wpdev
Dev Story Series (Part 4 of many): How to open links from a WebBrowser/WebView in Internet Explorer
Today I will share my solution of how to open links from a WebBrowser or WebView on Windows Phone and Windows 8 (as I did in my app for msicc.net). Generally links are opened within the same WebBrowser or WebView element. On Windows Phone you can solve this problem pretty easy with only one simple [...]
Dev Story Series (Part 3 of many): Why I use a WebBrowser/WebView to display WordPress post content
When it comes to display the post content on a blog reader app, it starts to become a bit challenging. The post content is formatted to look great on your website. But when we pull our posts into an app, there is only the naked, HTML formatted string. As developer, you have to think about [...]
Dev Story Series (Part 2 of many): Getting recent posts from WordPress into your Windows Phone and Windows 8 app
Now that we have a full WordPress JSON class, we are able to download our recent posts from WordPress into our apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8. I am still not using MVVM to keep it simple (and because I have to dive into it more deeply). The first thing we need to do [...]
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