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Following up on my previous post about Prism for WinRT applications, I thought I’d start digging in and trying to see what’s present in the Prism framework libraries. I wasn’t entirely sure how to approach this. With the Prism bits you get three things; The...(read more) ...

We have a couple of Windows Phone events coming up. For Developers Who Have a Windows Phone 7 App in The Store The first is targeted at developers who have an app in the Store for Windows Phone 7 but who haven’t ported it yet to Windows Phone 8. That event...(read more) ...

Ok, the title is meant to be a little jokey and is with reference to both Shakespeare and to The Gaslight Anthem and that’s quite a mix to start a blog post with Quite a while ago, I made a set of videos on the PRISM framework which was also known by the earlier...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...

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...(read more) ...