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Finding and Mapping a Route in Windows Phone 8

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

Date: 06/14/2013

Reverse Geocoding in Windows Phone 8

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

Date: 06/14/2013

Calculating Distance From 2 GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8

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

Date: 06/13/2013

10 Great Windows Phone 8 Code Samples (No, Wait… 30)

Sometimes we don’t want to read a blog posts on a topic, we want to look at the code implementing...

Date: 03/21/2013

Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile

I have a sample that I use when serializing data in order to save it to a StorageFile in Windows 8...

Date: 03/12/2013

Getting Started With Windows Phone 8 HTML5 Apps

I’ve recently been learning to write HTML 5 / Javascript apps for Windows 8 and wanted to take some...

Date: 02/15/2013

Using an AdControl in a Trial App (Windows Phone)

I had to search around for this information so I thought it would be nice to have it somewhere...

Date: 01/27/2013

Windows Phone ScheduledTask Agents and FileNotFoundException

Maybe this is a problem that I’m all alone on, but it took me some time to figure out. I started up...

Date: 01/11/2013

Windows Phone 8 & 7.x Design Cheat Sheet

I tweeted this, but it is so fantastic it needed its own blog post. Nathalie BELVAL (@nbelval) put...

Date: 01/03/2013

Weekly Links–New Year 2013 Edition!

Windows Phone Best Apps For Your New Windows Phone Device – not at all comprehensive, but a decent...

Date: 01/02/2013

Design and Usability See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas – Written by Kevin...

Date: 12/18/2012

How To Register More Than 3 Windows Phones For Development

Ask. Really, all you need to do is log into the Windows Phone Dev Center, contact support and submit...

Date: 12/14/2012

Windows 8 Style CheckBox/RadioButton in Windows Phone

I love the “checked” style in Windows 8. Clean, slick, I just like the style. So I implemented it in...

Date: 12/13/2012

Windows Phone StringFormat Binding And Blend

This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant...

Date: 12/12/2012

Complete Guide to Windows Phone StringFormat Binding

I wrote a post on this for Silverlight way back in the day but thought it would be good to do an...

Date: 12/11/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Phone Code Sharing: HttpWebRequest GetResponseAsync

I’m working on building helpers for sharing code between Windows 8 (Windows Store) and Windows...

Date: 12/10/2012