Category: Windows Phone
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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…
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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:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Network Dashboard 2.1 Passed Certification, Published To Marketplace
Just a quick note to let everyone know that version 2.1 of Network Dashboard has passed certification and has been published to the Windows Phone Marketplace. It usually takes about 24 hours from this point until it’s available to everyone. For more information on what’s included in this update, see this post.
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Windows Phone 7 will reformat a locked MicroSD card!
When I first purchased my Samsung Focus I put a 16GB MicroSD card in it. Unfortunately, I had a hardware issue with the phone and had to return it to AT&T to exchange it for a new one. At the time I thought my MicroSD card was dead until I could find someone with an…
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Visual Basic Support Now Available for Windows Phone 7 Development
The Windows Phone 7 Development Team announced today the immediate availability of the RTW (Release To Web) version of the Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. For the initial release, this version requires Visual Studio 2010 Professional and only supports Silverlight projects.
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