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Making Durandal, PhoneGap and Windows Phone 8 work together

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Tutorial which shows how to combine Durandal, PhoneGap and Windows Phone 8.

Caliburn.Micro for WinRT: Getting Started

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Caliburn.Micro for WinRT Getting Started Tutorial. How to get started with the powerful MVVM framework for Windows 8 Store Apps, using C# and XAML.

New Windows Phone 8 Lock Screen Features: How to Upgrade Your App to Show Notifications

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One of the nice additions to the Windows Phone 8 is that the 3rd party apps can now update the phone’s lock screen. The apps can be grouped to two categories based on how they manipulate the lock screen: Lock screen background image providers Lock screen notification providers In this tutorial we’ll focus on the [...]

WinRT XAML GridView Performance Problems on Windows RT Tablets

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Let’s start with the bad news: If your WinRT XAML app uses the GridView with grouping, you’re app is quite likely going to hang and crash on Windows RT tablets. It doesn’t matter if the GridView has thousands of items or 50, it will crash. Just start the app on a Windows RT tablet, do [...]

Latest Twitter Bootstrap broken in Windows Phone

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The latest Twitter Bootstrap version doesn”t work in Windows Phone, as the responsive layout is broken. The solution involves a rollback to a previous version.

HttpClient Basic Authentication for WinRT

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A tutorial showing how to do Basic Authentication in a WinRT app using HttpClient.

Updating App to Windows Phone 8 Using a Startup Project

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Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 app co-development can be make easy using a startup project.

Why we prefer Azure VMs over Azure Web Sites and Azure Web Roles

Comparison between the different Azure web site hosting options: Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Web Sites and Azure Web Roles.

TechDays 2013 Helsinki

I”m giving a presentation on the TechDays 2013 Helsinki about our lesson”s learned from building the Wensus.com app analytics service.