Matthias Shapiro
Windows Phone technical evangelist, blogger, author, app developer, information visualist... no, um, visualizer? Visualizationer? I make purty charts.
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Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) Building for Both Windows Phone & Windows 8 - OverviewAbstract: Brian Hitney and Matthias Shaprio kick off their “Build for Both Windows Phone and Windows 8” series today with a quick architecture and best practices overview session and then show off some real world examples of apps they built for both platforms.
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IWP65 | Localization Made Easy with Multilingual App TookitDownload the Multilingual App Toolkit for Windows and Windows Phone.
One of the exciting things about Windows Phone development is the extraordinary reach that Windows Phone apps have across the world. Windows Phone apps can be made available in 191 markets across the world and we've seen great adoption...
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IWP 64 | Rate My AppToday we talked about a tactic you can use to help you maintain a closer relationship to the people using your app, as well as help you get ratings and reviews. Nokia's recently released an excellent code sample that makes it easier than ever to subtly prompt your user on a periodic basis, to rate your...
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IWP63 | Easily Adding Auth and Push to your WP App with Windows Azure Mobile ServicesThis week, Matthias gave us a quick introduction to Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS) for Windows Phone Developers.
Lots of folks we talk to find the prospect of building a server component to their Windows Phone app a bit daunting, but Azure Mobile Services opens up a whole new universe of possibilities...
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IWP 61 | Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 - The BasicsOne of the exciting elements of building for Windows Phone is that properly designed and architected Windows Phone apps are already on their way to being Windows Store apps. This week, Matt Hidinger joins us to talk about how we can leverage .NET technology to build apps for both platforms while sharing...
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IWP60 | More on Imaging Scenario Resources for WP DevelopersWe talked about imaging extensibility some more this week, specifically with regard to the samples we've provided for Windows Phone developers who want to add imaging scenarios to their apps.
Here are some details about the content we talked about, where to go to get more information and the specific...
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IWP 59 | Nokia Imaging SDK on Windows PhoneDownload the project seen in this video here.
Two weeks ago, Nokia announced their Lumia 1020, which, in addition to being a fantastic all-around device running the best mobile OS on the market today, has an astounding 41 megapixel camera sensor. In addition to this new device, Nokia also announced the...
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IWP 58 | Put the Standard Animations in your AppOne of the most beautiful design aspects of the Windows Phone OS is the use of motion design. Windows Phone is alive with motion, which acts as a huge differentiator in quality applications. Unfortunately, motion design can be very painstaking work and difficult to implement.
Fortunately the Windows Phone...
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IWP 57 | Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
In this video we cover
- The basics of location and mapping
- The power of Windows Phone location and mapping APIs including simple ways to do distance calculations, reverse geocoding (get an address from a latitude/longitude),...
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Practical MVVM For Windows PhoneIn the world of Windows Phone development, the cornerstone app architecture is called MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). In this video, I talk through some of the structure of an MVVM application to talk about how we build MVVM apps for the phone to take advantage of benefits like data binding, commanding...
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Part 35: Where to go from here
Aug 02, 2013 at 3:36 PM@JimBane: For SQLite and Windows Phone 8, I can make two suggestions. If you're more of a blog post type of guy, check out Andy Wigley's SQLite for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
http://andywigley.com/2013/06/06/sqlite-winrt-database-programming-on-windows-phone-and-windows-8/
Also helpful is Andy's TechEd talk on SQLite and Windows Phone (I know it says "LOB apps", but the lessons translate pretty well to all kinds of apps that need SQLite.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/WPH-B306#fbid=DOyEk0reyuo
IWP60 | More on Imaging Scenario Resources for WP Developers
Aug 02, 2013 at 10:39 AMWe're moving into a new topic this next week, but you can learn more about pictures Auto Upload here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj571205(v=vs.105).aspx
IWP 57 | Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8
Jun 17, 2013 at 10:32 AM@dzimiq: Thanks! The token for the Map control is free now and forever. It is just a way to verify that the map control has been signed in the app store.
Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up to deliver this mapping data to Windows Phone 8 across all devices. This will work on HTC or Samsung or Huawei phones as well as Nokia phones.
At this time, the Windows 8 solution is to use the Bing Maps control. Although it is being driven by much of the same data, it is a distinct control.
Practical MVVM For Windows Phone
Jun 14, 2013 at 2:47 PM@pajocomo: I don't think we have C# 5.0 available for Windows Phone at this time, so this model may still be the best way to implement the MVVM pattern.
Developing in HTML5 and Javascript for Windows Phone
Jun 14, 2013 at 2:45 PM@Mark:For Windows 8, we have native JavaScript development so that the entire application renders in HTML and is driven by JavaScript. In Windows Phone 8, the control is hosted in a C# application.
But (and this may be where the misunderstanding is) the WebBrowser control starts up a no-compromise instance of IE10. This is the same powerful instance of IE10 that starts up when the user opens up their native web browser on the phone, which means we get the same power of JavaScript and HTML5 in our apps as there is in the native browser experience.
Brad Abrams - Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps
Mar 09, 2009 at 1:36 PMI'm willing to be convinced that Silverlight is a fantastic LOB forms framework, but we need better text support. Hopefully we'll see that in the "I can't show you this right now, but just you wait" category.