Merry Xmas, everyone!
This year was an amazing year. We got a lot of new devices, great apps, and a lot of development work was done. Now, with Xmas around the corner, I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas! Aft...
MSicc's Blog
[Updated] Why Windows Phone apps deserve a custom uri scheme (and how to add a simple launch uri)
Microsoft introduced custom uri schemes or uri associations in Windows Phone 8 along with the ability to launch apps based on a file type. Sadly, this feature is not used across a broad range of a...
How to update a live tile in a background task with web data on Windows 8.1
Like I wrote in my last post, I recently finished a PCL project with a Windows Phone and a Windows 8.1 app. Like the Windows Phone version, also the Windows 8.1 app has a live tile that fetches the...
How to update a live tile in a background agent with web data on Windows Phone
In one of my recent projects, I needed to update the live tile of the app via a background agent with data from a WordPress based web site. I did what I always do when implementing a feature I neve...
How to work with the user’s music library on Windows Phone
I am currently exploring a lot of APIs that I never used before in my Windows Phone apps as I am adding more features to my NFC Toolkit. Like I always do, I create sample applications to explore w...
Add your app: List of uri associations for Windows Phone
While development of my NFC Toolkit, I came to the point where I needed to launch apps from my code. On Windows Phone, this is only possible via custom uri association and needs to be implemented ...
The very weird way of checking if Bluetooth or Location is enabled
As I am in constant development of new features for my NFC Toolkit, I came to the point where I needed to detect if Bluetooth and Location is enabled or not. I searched about an hour across the in...
How to select an item of (Rad)ListPicker control via speech recognition
This one is a short follow up to my post from yesterday about speech recognition in Windows Phone 8 apps. I made the first steps with speech recognition in the last few days with speech recognitio...
Make your app listening to the user’s voice
In one of my recent projects, I added speech recognition to start the app as well as for using the app. This blog post gives you a short overview on what’s possible and how to do it. How to start ...
How to modify the Background of a Telerik RadListPicker Control
In one of my current projects, I needed to change the Background of the Popup on a Telerik RadListPicker control. While it took me some time, I want to share how to achieve that to make it easier f...