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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrNokia Music API for Windows 8
Nokia Music API is a set of services that allow you to offer parts of Nokia Music services in your application, which is especially interesting on Windows Phone 8 and (more recently) Windows 8 platform. The Windows 8 support is available for around 2 weeks. How to use it in your... - pet 3.5.2013
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrThis is not another WinDays 13 goodbye post
This is not another WinDays 13 goodbye post. It’s actually a ‘see you again soon WinDays’ post, with a few of my own impressions and thoughts about the Microsoft WinDays 13 conference held in Umag, Croatia last week. I had a session there about Live services and... - pon 29.4.2013
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrTransferring blog to Azure Web Sites – fresh start
After quite some time, I am transferring blog to Azure Web Sites to have more and better control over it. This means better insight into what’s happening regarding the traffic, better customization possibilities etc. Where are we now? What’s next? How do you like the... - ned 31.3.2013
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrCharacter ellipsis trimming in Windows Store apps
As a relatively new platform, WinRT is missing some of the features that WPF and even Silverlight developers are used to. One of those features is definitely the character ellipsis trimming feature for TextBlocks. I did a little research on … Continue reading → - uto 26.3.2013
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrAdvanced data caching in Windows Store apps
In this post we’ll be working with data caching in Windows Store apps using Q42.WinRT library and Flickr API, continuing from the last post “Data caching in Windows 8 apps”. Using the library, it’s very simple to do a lot … Continue reading → - ned 3.3.2013
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrData caching in Windows 8 apps
When working with a lot of data in apps based on web services (JSON return format being quite common), you’d normally want to cache it in order to make your apps faster and make your users spend less Internet traffic … Continue reading → - sri 12.12.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrModern UI PowerPoint template
Modern UI, Microsoft Design Style, Metro… Doesn’t matter really in this case. I was looking for a PowerPoint template to use in my presentations and didn’t find many clean and nice online. I didn’t want Windows 8 start screen in … Continue reading... - uto 11.12.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrLive Connect SDK for Windows Phone 8–authenticating and basic info
Live SDK makes it easy for you as a developer to use Live services from inside your Windows Phone 8 app. More than 500 million people use services like SkyDrive, Hotmail, Messenger etc. There are some things which you don’t want … Continue reading → - sub 3.11.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrHow to set vertical title in Windows 8 GridView items
One of the issues when it comes to space and properly designing a GridView on devices with 768 pixels of height is the fact that the title of each GridView item can often take just the amount of space on the top that you need to fit all your data. Considering the fact that the [...]... - sri 31.10.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrWindows Phone 8 emulator wasn’t able to create the virtual machine
There I am, all happy and excited about the latest Windows Phone 8 SDK released today. And so I downloaded it (took quite long, I am probably not the only one in the world who wanted it immediately :)) and installed it. Opened Visual Studio 2012, created a new template project,... - sub 27.10.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrFour simple ways to fail Windows Store app certification
There are many ways to fail Windows Store app certification, and in this article I’ll show you my “favorite” 4 which are almost the simplest but very common. Of course, if you wish to pass the certification, you must think the opposite way, and make sure that those do not happen... - čet 25.10.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrOh and just four more things
Feeling tired and exhausted after a really long but exciting day at Microsoft Sinergija conference in Belgrade where I had a late afternoon session about Windows Phone and augmented reality, I decided to mention four important things that I might have not written about earlier, or... - pon 17.9.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrLayout transform in Windows 8 WinRT XAML
Layout transform is an interesting concept in XAML development. This of course includes WPF, Silverlight, Silverlight for Windows Phone, WinRT XAML. It is often a nice feature (let’s call it a design feature) to have your text rotated 90 degrees to save vertical space. This is... - sri 12.9.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrWindows App Certification Kit error – doesn’t show all apps
Windows App Certification Kit is a great tool for all the developers who wish to publish their Windows 8 apps on the official Windows Store. It makes a bunch of tests to make sure your app works as it should (according to specific application certification requirements). The only... - uto 11.9.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrAugmented reality session presentation
As I announced earlier, I had a session at KulenDayz conference about Windows Phone and augmented reality. You can hardly start talking about augmented reality before you cover some basic elements of it, which includes defining the augmented reality, classifying it, explaining... - uto 28.8.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrOfficial Windows 8 app for KulenDayz and MVP CEE & Italy Regional Summit
Part of every great technology conference/event is an app for at least one major mobile platform which makes it easier for the attendees to get around. It usually offers information about speakers, sessions, often has a Twitter part showing the latest twitts with the official hashtag... - uto 21.8.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrWindows Phone Augmented Reality session at KulenDayz
Today, the agenda for MS Community event in Croatia known as KulenDayz got refreshed, and my session got accepted and became a part of the ‘Windows Phone’ track! I am very excited about it because I explained earlier why KulenDayz is a special event to me. So, besides being a part... - pet 3.8.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrKulenDayz 2012 – Regional MS Community Event in Croatia
My first KulenDayz conference was 2 years ago, September 2010. I remember it very well because it was very special to me – it was the first technical conference I’ve ever attended. So many great professionals and people from Microsoft community that you can simply come up and... - pon 30.7.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrWindows Phone location tool in emulator down? No problem!
To enable developers to test applications that somehow rely on location services without having an actual device, Microsoft added a location tool to the Windows Phone emulator back in Mango release. For some reason, the tool stopped working and the Bing map is not rendered if you... - uto 17.7.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrHow to use Telerik Metro RadPieChart control
When I first started developing for Windows 8 platform (XAML+C#) more than 2 months ago, I noticed that some of the controls that one would expect to see on a serious platform were missing. Mainly, I was missing charting controls and DatePicker control. I never expected the SDK to... - sub 14.7.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrShare photos on Twitter from Windows Phone app
One of the things you might need Twitter authentication in your app for is to be able to share photos. In my last article, I described the way to get the user authenticated (PIN based authentication), and this article will show one of the methods for sharing photos on Twitter from... - ned 17.6.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrTwitter authentication from Windows Phone app
Just like with Facebook, sharing statuses on Twitter from Windows Phone app can be simply accomplished using ShareStatusTask launcher. A more complicated scenario is when you want to share a photo on Twitter. In order to do that, you first need to authenticate the user from your... - čet 7.6.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrShare photos on Facebook from Windows Phone app
Sharing photos on Facebook from your Windows Phone app is one of the scenarios for which you need Facebook inside your app. In my last article, I wrote about the first step of creating a Facebook enabled app, which is authentication. After the user is successfully authenticated,... - sri 6.6.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrFacebook authentication from Windows Phone app
To share statuses on Facebook from your Windows Phone app, all you have to do is use a launcher called ShareStatusTask, and the system takes care of the rest (in case your phone is connected to social networks where you’d like to share). In cases other than simple statuses or links... - pet 25.5.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrImplementing augmented reality using GART
This article will show the details of implementing augmented reality in Windows Phone using Geo Augmented Reality Toolkit (GART). GART enables you to create augmented reality experiences that depend on real geographical locations. It takes care of overlaying Bing maps, your heading,... - ned 20.5.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrShow ratings with stars in WinRT XAML
When you try to build an app that displays ratings of some kind, it’s often interesting to show them using stars “notation”. Unfortunately, there is no native rating control to be used with WinRT and XAML, but on the bright side there are many open source projects available for... - ned 13.5.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrWindows Phone and Geo Augmented Reality Toolkit (GART)
This year, it was my first time ever to experience what it means to speak at a conference. I had a session at the Microsoft WinDays technology conference in Croatia, and I talked about Windows Phone multimedia and sensors. It was (and still is) an interesting combination of two... - ned 15.4.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrRotate 3D model in XNA using Motion API
Motion API is a great way for you as a developer to get access to sensor data in more sophisticated and more useful way than just getting the raw data from each sensor. There’s a complex math in the background that combines the sensor data for you to get more usable data. This way,... - uto 13.3.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrDrafter app for creating message drafts available on Marketplace
Microsoft Croatia organized a Windows Phone app competition for students, that ended on March 4. I wasn’t sure if I had enough time to participate with a good app, being in the middle of a few other, more complex apps. But I decided that the idea I had could be realized quickly,... - čet 8.3.2012
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Igor on Mobile Windows Phone and Windows 8 around the clock
hrThe best open source components for Windows Phone
I am a big fan (and user!) of open source components for the Windows Phone platform development. There are many (hundreds?) of them available on CodePlex, but I use some of them in almost every project I create. Why? Simply because it means that I can do more in less time. I can...
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