Are lockscreens outdated?
In one of their latest shows, Vernon and Andrew from the awesome Glance and Go Radio discussed whether or not having a lockscreen still makes sense. Unlike many people may think, lockscreens were n...
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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,...
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 re...
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 Yo...
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 wan...
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 WebBr...
Who is it that actually complains about WP?
That’s a question that’s been driving me for some time now. When I first came to Windows Phone – on my HD2 back in the days – I was kind of disappointed too. Coming from Windows Mobile and Android ...
Tap+Send: The Love Story of 2 NFC Devices
Innovation in technology is hit and miss for a number of reasons. To prognosticate what advances in technology will be accepted by the general public is by no means, an exact science. There’s a con...
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 a...
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...