How to save a List or a Collection on a NFC tag
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...
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Getting productive with WAMS: How to handle erroneous push channels
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 ...
Getting productive with WAMS: How to call Twitter REST API 1.1 from a scheduled script
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...
Use Telerik RadControls for WP? Then use RadDiagnostics to enable users to find bugs!
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 ...
Getting productive with WAMS: about the mpns object (push data to the user’s Windows Phone)
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...
Getting productive with WAMS: how to set up a timeout before running code in an interval
I truly love Windows Azure Mobile Services, as it provides an easy way to connect Windows Phone apps to the cloud and also manages Live Tiles and Toast Notifications via Push. This way, we don’t ha...
Getting productive with WAMS: respect time zone offset for every single user
In my second post about WAMS I will show you how to respect the time zone of every user. If you have users that are from all over the world, they have all different time zones. Your Mobile Service...
Getting productive with WAMS: how to update data for a specific row in a table
Like I promised, I will share some of the Azure goodness I learned during creating my last app. This post is all about how to update a specific table entry (like a user’s data) in a Azure SQL tabl...
New Series: Getting productive with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS)
Now that my current app project is near to go live, I will start a new series about how to get productive with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS). I will cover some interesting topics in this se...
How to use and customize “pull to refresh” on Telerik RadDataBoundListBox
If you are following me and my development story a little bit, you know that I am building a new app (ok, it’s RTM already). I wanted to add a manual refresh button to my MainPage, but there was n...