Matthias's Unfocused Semicoherent Nonsense

[...] that Ben Riga and I have been working on a set of sessions on building for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Ben will be presenting these sessions for Microsoft Virtual Academy on February 21st. I [...]

[...] If you want to get started with Windows Phone 8.1, there are 2 big options: “I’m completely new to Windows Phone development.” You need the  [...]

[...] I know there are about a thousand blog posts on implementing push notifications in a Windows Phone 7 application. But having now implemented push notifications a couple times into WP7 projects, [...]

[...] . Nathalie BELVAL (@nbelval) put together this handy card for designing and developing apps for Windows Phone 7.x and Windows Phone 8. It contains all … [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. I love the offline maps [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. One of the really cool and [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. Reverse geocoding is the [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. Calculating the distance [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. I [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. [...]

[...] This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. [...]

[...] the user can either select a previously taken photo or take a new one. We set the Completed event handler and show task. When the user has selected the image, we go to this event handler: For this to [...]

[...] And create a new ReverseGeocodeQuery, give it a valid GeoCoordinate and set up the an event handler to manage the result. Then in our event handler we will get a result (or list of possible [...]

[...] our route and add some locations to it. Then set up our RouteQuery object, assign an event handler so we can read the result, choose between a route for walking or driving and then assign [...]

[...] The Windows Phone Application Bar is a vital ingredient to almost any Windows Phone app. While creating the app bar in XAML is a piece of cake (especially using Blend), there are a [...]

[...] would be nice to have it somewhere handy. Here’s the scenario: You want to put ads into your Windows Phone app, but only when it is in trial … [...]

[...] how to get the sample app in this video and how to integrate the Nokia Imaging SDK into your Windows Phone app. [...]

[...] . This is a Universal project so the app runs as both a Windows Modern app and a Windows Phone app. [...]

[...] My initial concern here was to deal with tombstoning when it comes to HTTP requests, because that issue has kicked my butt on more than one account. But the second thing you’ll [...]

[...] My initial concern here was to deal with tombstoning when it comes to HTTP requests, because that issue has kicked my butt on more than one account. But the second thing you’ll [...]

I know this stuff, but I keep forgetting it from project to project so I figured it wouldn’t hurt anyone up here. Scenario: You want to hit an  AP [...]

[...] This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook through your app. In short, it assumes you’ve [...]

[...] This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook through your app. In short, it assumes you’ve [...]

[...] there. This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook through your app. In short, it assumes you’ve [...]

[...] shove our data into a FacebookUser model. Then we use BeginInvoke to bring ourselves back to the UI thread and set all the properties we want. Finally, we start the animation that hides the login data [...]

[...] , set up the acync callback so we actually get something and then, finally, jump over to the UI thread so the IsLoadingMessage property bindings make our UI do what we want. So all we need to do now [...]

[...] look at uses WebClient to do HTTP requests. But using WebClient can negatively affect the UI thread in Windows Phone 7, so we have to do something a little more like this: Easy enough, right? [...]

This is a full-featured tutorial, walking through design, structure, UI and photo formatting. If you just want to know how to get from a Windows Phone [...]

This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook throug [...]

This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook throug [...]