The MS build conference starts in 2 days and the session list is already online: http://channel9.msdn.com/events/build/2014?wt.mc_id=build_hp As everybody can see – there are many sessions according to windows phone and it’s also obvious that windows 8.1 and windows phone 8.1 have…
Invitation to preview the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 SDK
Now this is cool – yesterday I got an invitation from MS to preview the windows phone 8.1 SDK. 🙂 As one of our top developers, you are being invited to a confidential, private Windows Phone SDK Developer Preview Program…
Querying for appointments not possible in Windows 8.1
Some users of my app Week View were asking me, if i plan to create a similar app for windows 8.x. I already thought about doing so when windows 8.0 was release but felt no preasure to do this since…
Week View startup time when no network connection exists
Recently I got some emails, telling me that my app Week View sometimes starts slowly but the behavior was not predictable. Most times the start takes 2 seconds but sometimes the start takes nearly 8 seconds. I tested this on…
Will the next windows phone OS update provide an API to edit/delete appointments?
The programming interface for windows phone 8.0 does not allow to edit or delete existing appointments. This is the reason why Week View uses a workaround to do this for appointments in windows live calendar. It uses direct access to a…
Week View 8.6 puplished to marketplace
The certification process was successful and I published the Week View 8 update some minutes ago. This is, how it looks like in the windows phone developer center: And after you click „Publish“. 🙂 As you can see there…
Windows phone live tile issues
In my opinion the windows phone platform is great in kind of development tools and also user experience. When working extensively with an platform you also learn about it’s bugs and limitations. One of this limitations has to do with…
Windows phone limitations
Since i get some emails which are related to this topic, i like to explain some things about it + this will also allow me to point at this posting, when users send me an email according to this. 🙂…