Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 Events The UK Visual team have added more dates for free events in May and June, heading out to new places like Cardiff, Nottingham and Glasgow. We have seen a real interest in our Visual studio 2012 events since we launched in Sept 2012 and so we’d encourage all Developers, Testers, Architects
We’re running some introductory style developer camps for Windows Phone 8 in the UK at the moment targeted at folks who have perhaps done some .NET in the past but haven’t built apps for the Phone yet and as part of those I work through some parts of a demo of building a simple application that searches for photos on the flickR service and displays
There’s a Windows 8 app that I have a minor involvement with that needs to be able to display PDF documents and also capture annotations (ideally ink) on those documents. I haven’t looked in great detail at how to display PDF documents (other than to launch a file with a .PDF extension and let the Windows file associations do their thing) in a Windows
One of the ‘interesting’ things about a Windows Store application and the application lifecycle is that it forces architectural changes onto the way that you’d build an app. You can read the full details on the developer centre if you’ve not looked at this before but the “cut down version” is; your app code runs when your app is on the screen in front
In a Windows 8 Store app, it’s pretty easy to put a dialog on the screen that allows the user of your app to save or open a file from/to somewhere. For example, here’s a simple piece of code which attempts to ask the user for a zip file and then will try and save that file somewhere else. async void OnButtonPress(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
I think I may have written something similar to this before but I got asked about loading images from the web and so I thought I’d write something down. It’s a pretty common scenario that you have an image control and you want that image control to display an image from the web which can both take time and can also fail to load. While the image is loading
If you’ve been along to one of my talks on Azure Mobile Services you’d have noticed that I’d been fairly careful in talking about Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 support in terms of the .NET class libraries for development on the client side which make working with a Mobile Service easier than having to construct HTTP requests manually in code. That’s
Mobile devices like phones, slates need operating systems that try and get the best out of the battery power that the device has while providing a fast, responsive experience for the user. The operating system itself can do a tonne of work in this area but at some point the applications that are running on the device also need to do the right thing
A quick post to answer a question that I received from someone around adding a privacy page to a Windows Store app. Why would you need a privacy policy? If you take a look at the page; “Avoiding common certification failures (Windows)” You’ll find the section that says; If your app connects to a network, you must make sure your app includes a privacy
A few years ago, I had a manager who wanted to analyse how much traffic the members of my then team were getting to their blog sites and so he had us implement Google Analytics on our blogs. At the time, I wasn’t overly keen as I wasn’t sure that the measurements were something that would be followed up long term (they weren’t, they were forgotten)