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One of the strong features of Windows 8 is the integration of apps with the Windows 8 OS and also the ability for applications to integrate with other applications. A scenario that can be useful for many applications is to … Continue reading → ...

Last week I did a session about App to App communication on Windows Phone 8 and people who attended asked me to make the source of the samples and the slide deck available. I was quite busy this week but … Continue reading → ...

Valueconverters are a really usefull feature when you are building an app using the MVVM pattern so you can bind properties from your viewmodel of a specific type to a element in the view which can only bound to another … Continue reading → ...

Last year when working on some Windows Phone 7 projects i thought it was a good idea to change the skin of the Phone emulator of all the developers in our team for screenshots and demos. I created a project … Continue reading → ...

This post is made for everyone who was at my session at the “Masters in Microsoft” event at the Avanade office yesterday. Hopefully you enjoyed my session! I got asked for the sample code and slide deck a couple of … Continue reading → ...

This post is made for everyone who was at my session at the “Masters in Microsoft” event at the Avanade office yesterday. Hopefully you enjoyed my session! I got asked for the sample code and slide deck a couple of … Continue reading → ...

   Welcome to the last day in this series of blog posts on the new features for developers of the Windows Phone 8 platform. Today, the 8th day we’ll talk on our last subject of the series, the wallet functionality … Continue reading → ...

  Welcome back to the blog series 8 days of Windows Phone 8. Today, almost the last post we’ll dive into proximity capabilities also known as bluetooth and nfc. One note to this post is that i couldn’t test the … Continue reading → ...

  Welcome again to the blog series called 8 days of Windows Phone 8 celebrating the release of Windows Phone 8 and the Windows Phone 8 SDK. Today, 5 days after the release it’s time for the 6th post in … Continue reading → ...

  Welcome back to my series of blog posts called 8 days of Windows Phone 8. Today, the 5th day of this series we’ll talk about the new features in the .net framework 4.5 and the C# 5.0 language that … Continue reading → ...