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Creating smarter apps with geofencing - by @WPDev 26 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Windows 8 introduced the Geolocation API, which let your app get the current location or get regular updates on the current location. We covered some of that functionality in a previous blog post (Cre...
Top 5 Reasons to Use Cloud Controls in your next WP8 App - by @mbcump 26 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Back in June, we released our first ever cloud-powered controls for Windows Phone. We were the first vendor to see the needs of Windows Phone developers for cloud based controls and have continued to ...
Making a StorageFile read-only - by @kraigb 26 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
As a prelude to a series I'm hoping to do on file queries and file information, I just wanted to share a little snippet for making a file read-only. Although you can retrieve the current status throug...
Creating a unique ListView layout using cell-spanning - by Kathy Kam 26 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
The ListView control makes it easy for you to organize content in a beautiful and meaningful way. The ListView control takes advantage of the Windows 8 grid system, a design tool that provides a struc...
Calling ASP.NET Web API from a LightSwitch Silverlight Client - by @BethMassi 26 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
Before I left for a wonderful vacation camping in Lake Tahoe :) I showed you how you can use Web API with your LightSwitch middle-tier service in order to call stored procedures in your databases. I a...
Reading PDF files in Windows 8.1 Store Apps - by Sumit Maitra 26 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
PDF Reading has often involved third party libraries or incomplete components or implementing the entire step ground up. Microsoft never had a PDF SDK solution earlier. But with release of Windows 8.1...
WPF Base Classes - FrameworkElement - Visibility - by @blackwaspuk 26 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
We started to look at the FrameworkElement class in the previous article in the tutorial. This class is a base class that is inherited by all of the layout controls and other WPF controls. FrameworkEl...
Showing Progress, Changing State - by Christian Nagel 26 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
With Windows Store apps I often call into services (nowadays mostly Windows Azure Mobile Services). It can take some time until a response is there, and the user should be informed to be waiting. With...
Getting Started with Mobility, Part 5: Native Windows 8 - by David Pallmann 26 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
In this series, we're introducing mobile development by looking at a variety of platforms. In Part 1, we provided an overview of the mobile landscape, and in Parts 2, 3, and 4 we examined native devel...
App studio and so called "crapps" - by Matt Lacey 26 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
You've probably heard, Microsoft recently released Windows Phone App Studio as a way to create Windows Phone apps from a template via a wizard. It's very similar to ZipApp which was created by Microso...
