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Car Head Unit Compatibility with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
I recently had a desperate need to upgrade the audio system in my car, and wanted a good Mango-compatible system. I learnt a lot about Bluetooth and what to look for to get a great in-car experience,...
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Waiting for Your Windows Phone Beta App
Publishing a beta version of a WP7 app is both exciting (“does it work on someone else’s phone?”) and frustrating (“when is it going to actually show up?”). Having submitted maybe five beta versions...
View ArticleUPNP on Windows Phone 7.5 Part 2: Invoke
With UPnP discovery worked out, the next feature is to turn the discovery results into a Device, find a Service on that device, and to make calls on that service, ie Invoke some Actions. I'll start...
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Using Flurry Analytics on Windows Phone
I recently added Flurry Analytics support to my application and in the few weeks it has been available I have learnt huge amounts about my users, their habits, and found and fixed several bugs that...
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The Best Microsoft Keyboard. Ever. The Natural Keyboard Pro.
Keyboards are a very personal thing. For those of us whose job requires their use basically all day, every day, they are the piece of hardware that we have to be comfortable with. A good keyboard will...
View ArticleNative Code on Windows Phone 8: The assert Problem
So there you are, cranking out some new C/C++ (or CX/C++) code on Windows Phone. Its all new, so you add asserts all over the place to make sure its working. You run your app under the debugger to see...
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Handling Contract assertions on Windows Phone 8
If you are a fan of System.Diagnostics.Contracts and use them on WP8 you may find a problem: when a contract fails, you get no clue why. Here's how to find out. Firstly lets start with a trivial repro...
View ArticleGetting the Name of your Windows Phone 8 device
You can name your phone to whatever you like, but how can an app display that name? There isn't an obvious API for this, but I accidentally discovered an un-obvious API. The quick version is that you...
View ArticleCommon Questions (and Answers) about Windows Phone 8
Here at Microsoft we have a high percentage of Windows Phone 8 users (go figure?), however despite this I see so many of the same questions being asked by WP users on the DLs and internal Yammer pages....
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Updating Excel data with Project Siena
This post describes a method of using Project Siena with Excel data that can be updated later without having to change the app. [Yes Its been a while since I posted anything, thought it was about time...
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