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re: Windows 8, Background Tasks and the ‘Noisy’ NetworkStatusChange Trigger

Arun Kumar Kanojia — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:19:41 GMT

I like this tutorial..

Free Visual Studio Lifecycle Tools Events

MSDN UK Team blog — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:46:11 GMT

Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 Events The UK Visual team have added more dates

re: Annotating PDF Documents in a Windows 8 Store App

Farhan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:38:46 GMT

ComponentOne has one more advantage, it can load PDF from URL also.

Windows Phone 8–flickR searching demo from UK Dev Camps

MSDN UK Team blog — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:15:45 GMT

We’re running some introductory style developer camps for Windows Phone 8 in the UK at the moment targeted

re: Annotating PDF Documents in a Windows 8 Store App

Mikael Koskinen — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:55:10 GMT

Thanks for the detailed post. I also went through these same components just couple days ago and overall it seems that the PDF Viewer support in Store apps is still quite bad.

Regarding your problems on ComponentOne's solution, I encountered the same exception when trying to display the document. This seems to be a known issue and after installing their latest pre-release build, the documents started opening correctly. Unfortunately the component rendered most of the tested PDFs wrong, displaying the texts over each other.

You can get the the PDFTron's SDK by sending them email. The SDK works actually very well and it was the best component I tested. Unfortunately their licensing seems to be as weird as Leadtool's, meaning the price is determined by the user amount.

The muPDF works OK too. I tested the library downloading the sample from here: blogs.msdn.com/.../reading-pdf-and-xps-on-your-windows-8-application-using-winrt.aspx

Syncfusion also has a PDF support, but for some reason there's no PDF Viewer control: You can only create PDF documents.

Best regards,

Mikael Koskinen

re: Azure Mobile Services: Pre-Release .NET Client Libraries with WP7.5 and PCL Support

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:01:58 GMT

You don't have a "Starter" Project in using this?

I have trouble to have it run, so I must miss something.

In my solution I have 3 Projects

One WP7.5

One Windows Store

One Portable Class Library

I install the WindowsAzure Mobile service in the Portable Class Library by using NuGet.

The other 2 Project have an Reference to my Portable Class Library

In the Portable Class Library I have created an testmethode who should have som Azure actions.

This methode look likes:

public class TestAzureManager

{

public static MobileServiceClient MobileService = new MobileServiceClient(

mytestapp.azure-mobile.net/,"mycode"

);

private IMobileServiceTable<TestAzureTable> testAzureTable = MobileService.GetTable<TestAzureTable>();

public async void InsertSomeData()

{

var testAzureItem = new TestAzureTable {Id = 0, Text = "Test"};

await testAzureTable.InsertAsync(testAzureItem)

}

When I Call InsertSomeData methode from my Windows Phone 7.5 Project I got the following error,

when reaching private IMobileServiceTable<TestAzureTable> testAzureTable = MobileService.GetTable<TestAzureTable>();:

“A Windows Azure Mobile Services assembly for the current platform was not found. Ensure that the current project references both Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile and the following platform-specific assembly: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Ext.”

What do I wrong?

Hope someone can help me.

Commonly reported issues while leveraging Windows Azure Diagnostic configurations and Best Practices

Windows Azure Cloud Integration Engineering — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:12:18 GMT

In recent past we have noticed several customers reported issues related to Diagnostic configuration

Adventures with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Pete Vickers — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:46:36 GMT

Mike Taulty recently spoke to our Windows Phone User Group (North West) , and got me interested in WAMS

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.NET/C# ??? Some notes in IGrouping (via: Grouping in LINQ is weird (IGrouping is your friend) ??? Mike Taulty???s Blog) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:02:05 GMT

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re: Windows 8–When Saving Isn’t Saving and Opening Isn’t Opening :-)

Vitor Canova — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:19:44 GMT

Awesome. Never realized all those things happen when using SkyDrive.

Windows 8–When Saving Isn’t Saving and Opening Isn’t Opening :-)

Mike Taulty's Blog — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:25:47 GMT

In a Windows 8 Store app, it’s pretty easy to put a dialog on the screen that allows the user of your

re: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8–Application Lifecycles

Turf suppliers kent — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:58:55 GMT

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re: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8–Application Lifecycles

Tom Kirby-Green — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:53:50 GMT

Great article Mike, very timely for me and I really appreciate the in depth analysis.

re: Windows Store XAML App–Adding a Privacy Page

Jason — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:08:04 GMT

This post was timely. Followed your blog for a while and when this came up I had just about been ready to submit an app. Thanks