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Quick Tip: Getting Device ID on Windows & Windows Phone

Mark Arteaga — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:25:36 +0000

When building out apps, there are some situations where you are required to get a unique ID of the device whether it be for analytic data or to potentially limit devices from accessing some private services. This quick tip will show you how to get the device ID on different platforms such as Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8 [...]

Sharing Code Part IV: Portable Class Libraries

Mark Arteaga — Sat, 11 May 2013 06:58:21 +0000

In the last three posts, I have gone through various ways to share common code across the various Windows based platforms. So far in this series of articles in sharing code we have looked at Sharing Code Part I: Common Source File (source code download) Sharing Code Part II: Partial Classes (source code download) Sharing Code Part [...]

Sharing Code Part III: Conditional Compile

Mark Arteaga — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:49:12 +0000

In the first part of Sharing Code series we looked at sharing a common class source file across three different platforms, and in the second part we continued with using partial classes to separate the code out. In this third part of the series, we’ll look at using conditional compiles in our code and continue working [...]

Sharing Code Part II: Partial Classes

Mark Arteaga — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:05:28 +0000

In the first part of Sharing Code series we looked at sharing a common class source file across three different platforms. Continuing the series on Sharing Code across various platforms, we’ll look at leveraging partial classes to help share code across our many apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone 8 using [...]

Sharing Code Part I: Common Source Files

Mark Arteaga — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:05:27 +0000

In this article, I’ll go through how to share source code files between Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7.1 and Windows 8. In this sample we’ll go through how to share a Math class between two separate Windows Phone projects. Creating the Projects First thing is to create two Visual Studio 2012 Projects one for [...]

Sharing Code Across Platforms: Introduction

Mark Arteaga — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:06:34 +0000

In 2006 I did a presentation on that focused on .NET Compact Framework for Desktop Developers where the core focus was on how to leverage existing code from the full desktop .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework. Well seven years later (yes I’ve been doing this a long time!), some of those techniques are still usable [...]

Windows Phone & HTML5 Sample App Summary

Mark Arteaga — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:09:56 +0000

I recently wrote a four part article about how to build a simple count down timer app using HTML5 and Windows Phone. The articles covered getting started with HTML5 and Windows Phone, multiple resolutions, using the WebBrowser control to ‘talk’ to web page and finally getting ready for Windows Phone Store certification. Here is the [...]

XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Store Certification

Mark Arteaga — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:02:03 +0000

In this final article of the XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone sample, I’ll be going through some of the things you need to do as a developer to get ready for Windows Store Certification. If you have not read the previous articles, here is a list for some background XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample XBoxReveal HTML5 [...]

XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: WebBrowser Control

Mark Arteaga — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:33:30 +0000

In this third installment of the Windows Phone HTML5 XBox Reveal sample, we’ll look at fixing the horizontal and vertical scrolling of the index.html Here are the first articles available if you have not read them yet for some background HTML5 & Windows Phone: XBox Reveal Sample HTML5 & Windows Phone: Multiple Resolutions Usually using CSS [...]

XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Multiple Resolutions

Mark Arteaga — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:19:07 +0000

In a previous article I wrote about writing an XBox Reveal Count Down Timer for Windows Phone using HTML5 & CSS. By the end of the article we ended up with the following During testing for the sample, I was testing on the Windows Phone Emulator running at 720p running at 720×1280 and everything looks fine. The challenge [...]