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Hello, today I wondered why the following code never runs into QueryCompleted event. The simple but hard to find reason was, that I didn’t enabled the “MAP” capabilty for this app. There was no error or something like that, it just never ran into the completed event. For me this is a big issue, because...
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Today I looked at the location services for Windows Phone 8. In this blog post we will look at these three things: 1. Get decice location 2. Get street/city or whatever by coordinates (Geocode) 3. Get coordinates by street or city (ReverseGeocode) Full sourcecode is also hosted on pastebin http://pastebin...
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Following table shows in which platform can be used some newest and some kind of architecturally most important features. You should be aware if this when designing universal applications for Microsoft multiplatform. Feature .NET Framework Windows Store Silverlight Windows Phone Core √ √ √ √ LINQ...
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When consuming REST Web Service like WebApi based service from Windows Phone you will sometimes have to set the content-type header to some value. This is for example the case when you want to serialize the body of the POST request like shown below: public...
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Right now, there are 3 ways to send notifications to Windows Phone. 1. Native Notification by using MPNS ( Microsoft Push Notification Service , team blog ) 2. Windows Azure Mobile Services 3. Windows Azure notification hubs . In this post I will describe short sample, which holds most explanation in...
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Liebe Entwickler, vor allem wuensche ich euch ein gesundes und erfolgreiches Neues Jahr. Unter dem Motto “Welome 2013”, werden wir am 15.Januar in Bad Homburg einen Vortrag zum “ Runtime 8 – Fight-Club ” geben. Nach WinRT für Windows 8, steht uns Entwickler die brandneue Windows Runtime Version von Windows...
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At Nov 13-th 2012 I will give a talk about new Windows 8 Runtime in relation to Windows Phone 8 Runtime in Braunschweig – Germany. This will be an interesting lap around evolution of Windows Development Platform. By trying to use out the announcement of new Windows Phone 8, this talk will...
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Windows Phone 8 provides several out of the box dialogs/pages which helps a user to compose some task like camera capturing or sending of an email. Such actions are called tasks in WP programming model. Because applications are not able to directly access common stores of information, such as the contacts...
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As you probably know Windows 8 makes usage of Hyper-V, which works very well. Interestingly, few days ago I have updated my BIOS and coincidently at the same time Windows 8 update has been performed too. Shortly after updates, I have suddenly noticed that I’m not able to start any virtual machine on...
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Metro-Style, Metro-Design oder Metro Apps Immer häufiger liest und hört man von Metro-Style… Aber was ist damit gemeint? Als ich 2009 das erste mal mit unserem Chef-Entwickler über “Metro-Design” gesprochen hatte, hab ich natürlich, wie wohl die meisten aus unserer Branche “die allwissende Google” gefragt...
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OAuth is in the moment possibly the most standard way to authenticate user in the world of REST, WEB and mobile devices. In this post I will show how to implement WRAP 0.9 authentication by using Windows Azure Access Control Service. Following Java Script function prepares and posts the request...
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After successful October meeting, Bihac .NET User group is organizing its 9th meeting at 17. Nov. 2011 at 17:00. The meeting wil take place at Technical faculty of the University of Bihac. This time the speaker will be daenet’s MVP Bahrudin Hrnjica who runs .NET User group Bihac in Bosnia. The presentation...
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As already mentioned in the previous post (Episode I) Windows Phone 7.1 has built in Internet Explorer 9. Because this version is the almost e one as IE9 desktop edition, WP is able to render HTML5 content. Comparing to Chrome is the HTML5 support score still not high, but some of important features...
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As long “Windows 8” is moving to BETA build, many Microsoft related developers have started to think about HTML5-story. One of frequently asked questions across world wide web is “Will Windows Phone MANGO support HTML5?”. As a computer freak you will probably expect the answer of type boolean (true/false...