I received the following mail yesterday from the Windows Phone Team. I have to say that I wasn't aware of this issue and am pleased that Microsoft is dealing with it in what appears to be a sensible and straightforward manor. I trust that they will provide the name of the App[s] along with number... Continue Reading →
Windows 8 Basic Privacy Policy
This Privacy policy covers your use of this application. This App does not collect, store or share any personal information, or anything related to your device. We do not collect any statistics, trends or track user movements.
Windows Phone – 75,000 App downloads!
I just noticed that I hit the 75K combined total downloads for my Windows Phone 7 Apps: Bit surprised at some of the rankings:
Standard AppBarButton Styles Revealed.
As much for my own benefit as anyone else's here are the icons that all exist within the “Segio UI Symbol” Font referenced in the Standard Styles XAML fragment of every new project. (They should form the basis for any icon appearing in the Application Bar) NB Click on the images to enlarge. Fragment showing... Continue Reading →
Azure and Visual Studio 2012 / DotNet Framework 4.5
At the time of writing Azure for MS.Net Framework 4.5 is still in beta. To start a new Azure project change the framework type to MS.Net 4.0: NB The latest version of the Azure SDK is available here: http://www.windowsazure.com (A beta release for 4.5 is available via Connect – see Scott Guthries Blog for more... Continue Reading →
IFA Consumer Electronics Trade Show
IFA is the oldest and largest European trade show for consumer electronics held annually in Berlin. This year I was lucky enough to be able to attend for the first time. The scale of the show is daunting and there is no way I can do any kind of justice to it with a short... Continue Reading →
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;
App Updates refusing to install
For the last few days I have been getting notifications that updates are ready to install but I am having difficulty installing them. Here is what I am seeing: 1. Tile shows a daily increasing number of apps to update. 2. Selecting get me the list for updating: ... Continue Reading →
We can’t reserve a name at this time. Please try again later.
Third day of trying to register an App name for the Windows 8 Store: Is anyone else out there having any luck? FIX No idea what made me try this but I copied the URL into another browser and this time, instead of going to the name your App page I was told to enter... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 