Meet Steve at Berlin
As some of you know, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer himself visited Berlin a few days ago. First I want to apologize for the delay this post has, but sometimes there are things that can push things ba...
MSicc's Blog
Dev Story Series (Part 1 of many): Creating a data class for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone app
As I promised earlier on my application for the Intel App Innovation Contest on codeproject.com, I will do a series of blog posts for my application MSicc´s Blog for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. T...
Smart little helper to clean HTML based strings for [WPDEV] and [WIN8DEV]
I thought I would share this small little class I created to clean out HTML based strings into readable strings. The class is both usable for your Windows Phone app as well as your Windows 8 app. ...
Editorial – the relationship between developers and users
I did not plan this post, but as I received an email yesterday from another developer, this changed. This post will be an Editorial about the relationship between developers and users. Users and d...
Post #200 or what exiting times we have with Microsoft
I struggled with myself very long on what topic I dedicate this post with the anniversary number 200 and ended up with this article. We all had already a very exiting year with Microsoft. Microsof...
Fishing Knots + update to version 1.6 and some other changes
Today I submitted version 1.6 of Fishing Knots to the Marketplace. It contains only a few new features: – overhauled user interface – integrated Italian and German language – minor bug fixes H...
WPDEV: smooth SplashScreen transition for your Windows Phone app
Today I finished an update for one of my apps with adding a CustomControl as SplashScreen. I had to do it this way because my app is localized in English, German and Italian. Most annoying at this ...
WPDEV: 2 tools that make localization of your Windows Phone apps easy
Today I want to show you two small tools that will help you to make localizing your apps easier. Localizing in-app strings The first tool I want you to know about is a tool called “AppTranslator”...
Must have photo apps for Windows Phone (Summer 2012 Edition)
As I announced already yesterday, this post is all about must have photo apps for Windows Phone. The selection and this post is reflecting my own opinion about the apps. If you are using other apps...
My 2 cents to Microsoft’s “Metro” disaster
It has been very long that I blog from mobile now. But in the last hours there is something going on that really gets me annoyed. Due to a similar naming with the big German concern “Metro AG”, M...