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Microsoft Surface Pricing and Specs
Multiple TileOptions for Windows 8 Secondary Tiles
Just posting this here as it had me foxed for a while: You can have multiple TileOptions in code by separating the options with the pipe character. EG: TileOptions = TileOptions.ShowNameOnLogo | TileOptions.CopyOnDeployment;
DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. An internal error occurred with error 0x80073D05.
So this is an error I am seeing quite a lot while developing Windows 8 Apps. Luckily there is a workaround that seems to work every time (at least for me). Simply(!) close down everything and log out. When you log back in make sure to use a full password (not a pin). Fire up... Continue Reading →
Windows 8 Store–Live Tile News
Talk about ‘hard work, persistence & passion’ I now have an App in the Windows 8 store (RTM). Without going in to details this has been an up hill struggle but I am very pleased to say that it should be available from the store ‘very soon’. the URL I have been given for... Continue Reading →
“This package wasn’t built for the current version of Windows. Install the current version of Windows and build the package again.”
This post documents an issue I have been getting with the uploading of Apps to the Windows Store. 1. WACK process completes successfully: Upload in progress: Produces this error: NB I am using the latest builds of Windows and Visual Studio available. If anyone else is getting this issue please add a note in... Continue Reading →
Live Tile News (Windows 8)
The success of Live Tile News for Windows Phone (see review from BBC Click below) has lead to the early development of a version for Windows 8. Sharing the same back end this App provides at-a-glance and in depth news based on News feeds. available from the BBC. The App is currently undergoing QA testing... Continue Reading →
Semantic Zoom – Dual Implementation
Semantic Zoom was initially implemented in “Live Tile Browser” to collapse down the A-Z listing of Live Tilesto a simple alphabet (see blow) Semantic Zoom – (a–z listing of available Live tiles) This worked fine but it did present a small problem when I decided to offer a different method for sorting the live tiles... Continue Reading →
Windows Phone Tile browser for Windows 8
Live Tiles: ‘Get the important facts at a glance’ As owners of a Windows Phone we love our Live Tiles. Apart from the convenience they can save us valuable time when its simply not an option to stop what you are doing and fire up an App. But as an early adopter of Windows Phone... Continue Reading →
Windows 8 Apps – Keeping it Simple
We have all been is situations where we have seen code implemented in an unnecessarily complex way or where the number of features in an app has gotten out of control. I like to think that the use of “KISS” (“Keep it simple – stupid”) is one of the main stays of all the projects... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 