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My experience dealing with Microsoft in the old Windows Phone times Creating a TV schedule grid in UWP My (negative) experience with the Microsoft MVP awards Creating a simple Windows 10 game with Win2D Creating better forms in Windows Phone apps Using Tooltips to make better menus in Windows apps Choosing an image from gallery or camera a bit better in Universal Windows apps Using Hockey App to distribute Windows Phone apps How to handle localization strings provided by the client in a Windows Phone app Mobilize.net: Converting Windows Phone 8 apps to UWP? Not really Detecting gestures over WebView on Windows Phone Highlighting letters in TextBlock in Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Strange combination of HTTPS and Windows Phone 8.1 that can make your app and phone freeze Problems getting paid from the Windows Store, again Implementing Google login in Universal Apps Removing unused strings from Windows Phone 8 RESX files Customizing the Player Framework UI The death of the WinRT developer? Player Framework localization Leveraging ETag caching in Windows Phone and Windows apps Back navigation on Backspace key press in Windows 8.1 apps Changing the PivotItem header color in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML Dialog helper for Universal Apps the easy way Creating a fake splashscreen for your Universal App Why Universal Apps as not as universal as you may think REST service base class for Windows Phone 8.1 XAML apps Visual Studio template for Caliburn.Micro Windows Phone apps TvTime: track your favorite TV shows on Windows Phone What to put on the about screen of your Windows Phone app Experience with being featured in the Red Stripe Deal promotion on Windows Phone Automatic ViewModels and Services registration for (not only) Caliburn.Micro Converting between pixels, meters and map coordinates in Windows Phone Ignoring certificate errors in Windows Phone 8.1 Making your Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app a Share Contract target Crawling mobile app stores with F# Building Windows Phone apps with FAKE How to get rid of the strange line under systray in Windows Phone 8 Getting contacts on Windows Phone the async/await way Testing in-app purchases in Windows Phone Pock8: beautiful Pocket client for Windows Phone Free services to help you develop mobile apps Creating a Search box with Reactive Extensions and MVVM Windows Phone: run background agent every minute INotifyPropertyChanged the easy way in Windows Phone and Windows 8 Beware of removing localizations from your Windows Phone apps Windows Phone Store and problems with payments Do you need to create a special Windows Phone 8 build of your Windows Phone app? My Windows Phone and Windows 8 mini-libraries Few thoughts about the Windows (Phone) Store certification process Using custom fonts in Windows Phone apps Why I do not like Windows Phone programming anymore HTC 8X, Windows Phone 8 and playing music Windows Phone Store region messed up in Windows Phone 8
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NancyFX authentication for REST API Changing the PivotItem header color in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML Dialog helper for Universal Apps the easy way Creating a fake splashscreen for your Universal App Why Universal Apps as not as universal as you may think REST service base class for Windows Phone 8.1 XAML apps Visual Studio template for Caliburn.Micro Windows Phone apps Detecting tablets and smartphones in ASP.NET TvTime: track your favorite TV shows on Windows Phone What to put on the about screen of your Windows Phone app Experience with being featured in the Red Stripe Deal promotion on Windows Phone Automatic ViewModels and Services registration for (not only) Caliburn.Micro Converting between pixels, meters and map coordinates in Windows Phone Ignoring certificate errors in Windows Phone 8.1 Making your Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app a Share Contract target How to get rid of the strange line under systray in Windows Phone 8 Getting contacts on Windows Phone the async/await way Testing in-app purchases in Windows Phone C# scripting console for ASP.NET MVC application Creating a Search box with Reactive Extensions and MVVM Using the DebuggerDisplay attribute for better debugging experience Returning files in NancyFX Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 4: services and dependency injection Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 3: saving and restoring state Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 2: navigation Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 1: setup and first view Intercepting methods with Ninject for error logging Why you should not use Windows Store for in-app purchases Windows Phone: run background agent every minute INotifyPropertyChanged the easy way in Windows Phone and Windows 8 Beware of removing localizations from your Windows Phone apps Windows Phone Store and problems with payments Useful tools for Windows Store developers Do you need to create a special Windows Phone 8 build of your Windows Phone app? Displaying PDF files in Windows Store apps My Windows Phone and Windows 8 mini-libraries The problem with Windows 8 development is the WinRT’s lack of capabilities Detecting encoding of uploaded file in ASP.NET MVC Generating all permutations of a list … how hard can that be? Using custom fonts in Windows Phone apps AppHarbor: great place to start your .NET project Using .NET libraries with MonoTouch MonoTouch: iOS development for .NET programmers Converting HEX color to SolidColorBrush Loading XAML components at runtime Computing hashes in WinRT How to uniquely identify a Windows 8 device Being a polyglot programmer Processing JSON in .NET Using different data templates with GridView in Windows 8 apps Fast way to check if a file exists in WinRT Customizing semantic zoom in Windows 8 apps
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Allowing parallel iOS UI tests runs in CI Generating boilerplate Swift code with GYB How much time a day do you waste waiting for Xcode builds? Converting slow motion video to an URL asset for upload A few reason why your MKMapView unexpectedly crashes and how to fix them Dealing with memory limits in iOS app extensions Animating annotations position change in MKMapView Clustering annotations in MKMapView Using custom annotation views in MKMapView Logging error messages from assert and fatalerror Determining which frameworks use UIWebView Faster way to download and install Xcode Changing UIApplication base class Creating iOS context menu with highlight and dim Changing UIAlertAction text color Using CocoaPods to just build frameworks for use elsewhere Simple bindable "no data" placeholder for UITableView Debugging iOS network traffic Why is there a "lag" in iOS gesture detection near the edges of the screen? Animating tab bar buttons on tap Unit testing view controller memory leaks Building iOS dependencies with Carthage Checking for missing translations in iOS projects Automating your iOS app development and distribution workflow Creating and using your own Xcode file templates Using iOS strings in a safer way Workaround for UINavigationBar button remaining faded after back navigation Logging crashes in a Swift iOS application Architecting iOS apps: Coordinators Adding MobileIron AppConnect to a Swift application Writing a simple Pascal interpreter in Swift Workaround for receive remote notification callback not getting called in foreground on iOS 11 My experience with Swift after 9 months Filling UITableView with data from bottom to top More readable XCode build output for CI iOS tip: Wireless debugging from XCode Fixing black artifact when changing large titles mode in iOS11 Creating a dropdown menu from iOS navigation bar iOS tip: Changing navigation bar vs tab bar title Using protocol default implementation instead of abstract classes Simpler and safer iOS custom table view cells with Reusable Making UITableView's header 'stickier' Re-signing iOS apps Formatting Swift code in XCode Generating a list of libraries your iOS app uses Using MVVM with tables and cells in iOS Using data binding in iOS A week with Microsoft Band 2 Using .NET libraries with MonoTouch MonoTouch: iOS development for .NET programmers
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Reading environment variables from iOS and macOS unit tests Graying out images in Cocoa Web scraping with Swift Faster way to download and install Xcode Changing UIApplication base class Creating iOS context menu with highlight and dim Detecting click on a specific NSTableViewCell Making copy & paste work with NSTextField Why is there a "lag" in iOS gesture detection near the edges of the screen? Animating tab bar buttons on tap Unit testing view controller memory leaks Building iOS dependencies with Carthage Checking for missing translations in iOS projects Automating your iOS app development and distribution workflow Creating and using your own Xcode file templates Using iOS strings in a safer way Workaround for UINavigationBar button remaining faded after back navigation Logging crashes in a Swift iOS application Architecting iOS apps: Coordinators Adding MobileIron AppConnect to a Swift application Writing a simple Pascal interpreter in Swift Workaround for receive remote notification callback not getting called in foreground on iOS 11 My experience with Swift after 9 months Filling UITableView with data from bottom to top Fixing black artifact when changing large titles mode in iOS11 Creating a dropdown menu from iOS navigation bar iOS tip: Changing navigation bar vs tab bar title Using protocol default implementation instead of abstract classes Simpler and safer iOS custom table view cells with Reusable Making UITableView's header 'stickier' Formatting Swift code in XCode Using MVVM with tables and cells in iOS Using data binding in iOS
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Allowing parallel iOS UI tests runs in CI Reading environment variables from iOS and macOS unit tests Graying out images in Cocoa Using different Git config for personal and work projects Web scraping with Swift Generating boilerplate Swift code with GYB How much time a day do you waste waiting for Xcode builds? Converting slow motion video to an URL asset for upload A few reason why your MKMapView unexpectedly crashes and how to fix them Dealing with memory limits in iOS app extensions Animating annotations position change in MKMapView Clustering annotations in MKMapView Using custom annotation views in MKMapView Logging error messages from assert and fatalerror Workaround for Swift scripts crashing after update to Xcode 11.4 Determining which frameworks use UIWebView Faster way to download and install Xcode Changing UIApplication base class Creating iOS context menu with highlight and dim Changing UIAlertAction text color Editing macOS app About dialog Using CocoaPods to just build frameworks for use elsewhere Simple bindable "no data" placeholder for UITableView Why is there a "lag" in iOS gesture detection near the edges of the screen? Animating tab bar buttons on tap Unit testing view controller memory leaks Building iOS dependencies with Carthage Checking for missing translations in iOS projects Automating your iOS app development and distribution workflow Creating and using your own Xcode file templates More readable XCode build output for CI iOS tip: Wireless debugging from XCode Formatting Swift code in XCode
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My experience dealing with Microsoft in the old Windows Phone times Creating a simple Windows 10 game with Win2D Creating better forms in Windows Phone apps Using Tooltips to make better menus in Windows apps Choosing an image from gallery or camera a bit better in Universal Windows apps Using Hockey App to distribute Windows Phone apps How to handle localization strings provided by the client in a Windows Phone app Detecting gestures over WebView on Windows Phone Highlighting letters in TextBlock in Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Strange combination of HTTPS and Windows Phone 8.1 that can make your app and phone freeze Problems getting paid from the Windows Store, again Implementing Google login in Universal Apps Removing unused strings from Windows Phone 8 RESX files Customizing the Player Framework UI The death of the WinRT developer? Player Framework localization Leveraging ETag caching in Windows Phone and Windows apps Back navigation on Backspace key press in Windows 8.1 apps Dialog helper for Universal Apps the easy way Creating a fake splashscreen for your Universal App Why Universal Apps as not as universal as you may think REST service base class for Windows Phone 8.1 XAML apps TvTime: track your favorite TV shows on Windows Phone What to put on the about screen of your Windows Phone app Automatic ViewModels and Services registration for (not only) Caliburn.Micro Crawling mobile app stores with F# Testing in-app purchases in Windows Phone Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 3: saving and restoring state Why you should not use Windows Store for in-app purchases Useful tools for Windows Store developers Windows Store limits the number of in-app purchases for an app Few thoughts about the Windows (Phone) Store certification process
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Leveraging ETag caching in Windows Phone and Windows apps Changing the PivotItem header color in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML Dialog helper for Universal Apps the easy way Creating a fake splashscreen for your Universal App Why Universal Apps as not as universal as you may think REST service base class for Windows Phone 8.1 XAML apps Automatic ViewModels and Services registration for (not only) Caliburn.Micro Ignoring certificate errors in Windows Phone 8.1 Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 4: services and dependency injection Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 3: saving and restoring state Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 2: navigation Developing Windows Store apps with Caliburn Micro Part 1: setup and first view Why you should not use Windows Store for in-app purchases INotifyPropertyChanged the easy way in Windows Phone and Windows 8 Useful tools for Windows Store developers Displaying PDF files in Windows Store apps Windows Store limits the number of in-app purchases for an app My Windows Phone and Windows 8 mini-libraries The problem with Windows 8 development is the WinRT’s lack of capabilities Why I do not like Windows Phone programming anymore Encoding two ints into a long to be used as navigation parameter AutoCompleteBox for Windows Store apps Converting HEX color to SolidColorBrush Loading XAML components at runtime Computing hashes in WinRT Tampering with Windows Store apps data How to uniquely identify a Windows 8 device Processing JSON in .NET Using different data templates with GridView in Windows 8 apps Fast way to check if a file exists in WinRT Customizing semantic zoom in Windows 8 apps
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