Category: Microsoft

Touch scrolling broken in Windows 10 Build 14942

October 8, 2016
Projecting your Windows Phone screen to a PC

Cliff Simpkins, Product Manager for Windows and Windows Phone Developer Experience at Microsoft, wrote a blog post today on how to use their Project My Screen App to project your Windows Phone screen to a PC. This is great if you’re giving presentations or demonstrations as well as for capturing screenshots and video of your…

April 18, 2014
Windows Azure Mobile Services – Slides from Chicago Windows Developer Group

On October 3, 2013 Adam Hoffman from Microsoft gave a talk about Windows Azure Mobile Services at the Chicago Windows Developer Meeting. It was a great talk with a lot of great discussion! Here are the slides from the talk:

October 6, 2013
New Wi-Fi Drivers for Surface Pro on Windows 8.1

I recently upgraded my Surface Pro to use the final version of Windows 8.1. Ever since that upgrade, I was having a lot of problems with the Wi-Fi essentially hanging, which required me to disconnect and reconnect, sometimes as often as every couple of minutes. After some searching, I found new drivers for the Wi-Fi…

October 4, 2013
Surface Pro with Windows 8.1 – Snapping Three Apps

I have been playing with Windows 8.1 on my Surface Pro for the last couple of weeks and one of the things I’ve been curious about is the new Snap functionality. I remembered hearing at Build 2013 that a 1920×1080 screen could snap three different apps at the same time, but I wasn’t able to…

September 26, 2013
Windows Phone Dev Tip: UI Update From Thread Helper Function

Earlier today I saw a nice post by Wei-Meng Lee with a tip on how to update the UI from an asynchronous thread in Windows Phone (thanks to Ginny Caughey). After reading it, I decided to whip up a little helper function that I thought others might find useful: Without further ado, here is the…

July 13, 2013
In App Purchases When Previous Version Was Paid With Trial

I’m trying to finish up the Windows Phone 8 version of Network Dashboard and I’ve run into a bit of a conundrum: The Windows Phone 7 version of Network Dashboard was a $0.99 app with a free trial, but I’d like to make the Windows Phone 8 version free with in app purchases to open…

July 10, 2013
Ford Sync, Windows Phone and Phone Book Syncing

Are you having trouble syncing your contacts from Windows Phone to your Ford Sync phone book? There is a situation on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 where Ford Sync will only sync a small portion of a phone’s contacts to the phone book and will refuse to sync the rest, no matter…

January 7, 2013
APN Settings for Build Lumia 920s on AT&T — Plus Internet Sharing Workaround

The Nokia Lumia 920 developer phones that were given out at Build 2012 are unlocked GSM phones, specially created for attendees of Build. As such, they are not AT&T branded and come with a special “access point” settings app to select (and create/edit custom) APNs for mobile networks. Unfortunately, the LTE APNs that are pre-loaded…

November 11, 2012
Using the Windows Phone Local Database

I gave a talk to the Chicago Windows Phone Developer User Group on April 16, 2012 on how to use the Windows Phone Local Database. As promised, I’m linking the presentation as well as a link to MSDN resources: Presentation MSDN Local Database Overview and Examples

April 16, 2012