Microsoft introduced custom uri schemes or uri associations in Windows Phone 8 along with the ability to launch apps based on a file type. Sadly, this feature is not used across a broad range of a...
Like I wrote in my last post, I recently finished a PCL project with a Windows Phone and a Windows 8.1 app. Like the Windows Phone version, also the Windows 8.1 app has a live tile that fetches the...
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...