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...
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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...
Be a social network ninja with this Windows Phone apps
This post is all about managing your social networks with your Windows Phone. Windows Phone itself has a good integration of Twitter, Facebbok and LinkedIn, but there is not the full functionality...
(Update) MSicc’s Blog now for Windows Phone and for Windows 8 available!
Some of you know that the dedicated Windows Phone app for msicc.net is ready for nearly a month now. Sadly Microsoft does not allow fan sites to use any kind of their logo(s). So the app got reject...
Editorial: 2012 – what a year!
The year is coming to an end soon, so I wanted to write a short summary of my 2012 with Microsoft and MSicc.net. I started the year with a clean install of the Windows 8 preview, and was using i...
Merry Xmas from Msicc’s Blog
We had an amazing year. Microsoft launched Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, updated the Xbox Dashboard and the Xbox Live services. And there are a lot of things that are worth a mention, but this post i...