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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
As I am currently working again on my NFC app, I needed to save an ObservableCollection to a tag. My first attempts resulted in a heavily overlong string that I wasn’t able to save. Anyways, after...
As I wrote already in my former article ‘Getting productive with WAMS- about the mpns object (push data to the user’s Windows Phone)’, I needed to add some more detailed error handling to the mpns ...
Like I promised in my first post about Windows Azure Mobile Services, I will show you how to call the Twitter Rest API 1.1 from a scheduled script. The documentation of the http request object does...
I know this is a little provocative title – that is my intention. And of course I will tell you why. I am participating in several betas for Windows Phone apps. I know some of the developers from ...
When it comes to Mobile Services, there are a lot of things you can do with the user’s data. One of them is to update the Live Tiles of their apps as well as send them Toast Notifications. To under...