Amazon recently had a sale on the Lumia 520 “GoPhone” from AT&T. It was down to only $40 out the door, and I also had $10 in Amazon gift card credit in my account. So why not. Free shipping, to my door, and I have a new test device for my Windows Phone app development.… Read More »
All over the news lately is the new release of the ability for Windows Phone developers to respond to user reviews via the dev center, something of which any developer can immediately see the value.
Sure, you’re a good dev and you know that you should be putting all your strings in a RESX file if for no other reason than to centralize them so you only have to update them in one place. And maybe you do get some translations to other languages (good for you!). But what if… Read More »
This past week we’ve been presented with quite a few reasons to make sure that when we develop, we’re thinking globally, not just locally in terms of who’s going to be using and downloading our app:
“What’s an SSH tunnel?” you ask? In layman’s terms, it’s a way for you to take one PC, and pipe all its network traffic through another PC before it gets out to the internet. So what this means is that if, oh, somewhere were to say, monitor the traffic from your PC all they’d see… Read More »
I’m writing this blog post not only to educate, as I try to do with most of my posts, but also to alert the community and hopefully affect some change. If you have a Windows Phone that supports high-resolution photography (Lumia 1020, Icon), please keep reading.
How often have you created a unit test that you knew was long running (test all ___ overnight), only to find that eventually you hit a time when it never stopped, and horked up the rest of the test run? It’s happened to the best of us, I’m sure. However, thanks to .Net’s beautiful TPL,… Read More »
If you’re a Visual Studio user you’re more than familiar with snippets (I would hope). ctor, propa, testm, all very useful. But have you created your own snippets? You can do this with tools like the Snippet Designer extension, or roll your own by creating & editing a snippet XML file by hand based on… Read More »
Long before Roslyn was a thing at this years’ BUILD developer conference, it was being used by a small group of Microsofties to create something pretty sweet. This thing allowed you to write C# at the command line. So yeah, think Python, but with C#. Quick to get started, quick to work with, quick to… Read More »
Getting your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app published is only half the battle. Marketing is the other half. The folks at ExGrip have now made this insanely easy with App Additives. In this post, I’ma give you the rundown of just how easy it is to create some sweet promo materials for your app… Read More »