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...
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...
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...