Last month Xamarin had a great offer for independent windows phone developers: Provide access to their ‚Business license‘ for free, please see: https://blog.xamarin.com/free-xamarin-subscriptions-for-windows-phone-developers/ Some time ago I created smaller apps for android using Java and Eclipse but these were quite…
Daily Activities can save/export your activity data now
Daily Activities already automatically stores sensor data (steps, activities, visited places) locally in the app on your phone. You can review this data in the settings page. In contrast your phone only stores sensor data for 1 week. So if you are…
Update for ‚Daily Activities‘ will be available soon
Today I submitted an update for my app „Daily Activities„. Windows Phones with a motion sensor can collect your movement data (if you allow to do so) and you can see the your walking steps and visited places. But this…
Windows 10 Development starts
The final version of the windows 10 SDK is available so I am able to port my apps to windows 10, nice 🙂 Currently I am working to bring my apps „Daily Activities“ and „Week View“ to windows 10, other apps…
Final version of Visual Studio 2015 available – no windows 10 development
When the final Version of Visual Studio 2015 was released yesterday (07/20) I downloaded it, uninstalledVS2015 RC and installed the new version the same day. 🙂 Yeah – a developer’s favorite tool in the newest, shiny version! What do you…
Windows Store is broken at the moment
The title may sound dramatic but that’s what happened, maybe with the last „unification“ of the windows phone store and the windows store, maybe when preparing the store for windows 10. 1. Submitting updates for existings apps is not possible Today…
Windows 10 RC (Build 10240) and windows phone development fail
Update: A microsoft employee provided a registry fix, which solved the problem: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/74fafd96-50cf-4d77-9d7a-41620c5487a5/ipoverusbsvc-service-missing-in-windows-10-rc-build-10240?forum=winforms Yesterday I updated my notebook to the most recent build (10240) of windows 10, which is some kind of a „release candidate“ build. When I tried to deploy an…
Week View update 8.8.7.5 available
The update is available and it fixes the live tile update error that was introduced with version 8.8.7.4.
Week View 8.8.7.4 live tile problems
I got many reports from users that version 8.8.7.4 of Week View that was released a few days ago has major problems with updating the live tile. Sometimes the tile only show „partial“, sometimes it does not update at all.…
Reply from Joe from MS support according to store problems
Today I got a reply from „Joe“ from MS support team. The reply says that the phone store problem will not get solved and additionally support teams from MS do not communicate with each other. Yes, this is what the support from…