CNUG reaches 900 members

11 Jan

Yesterday I wrote a proud post about how the Windows Phone usergroup had reached 400+ members. Today I can write another very proud post about the Copenhagen .NET Usergroup (CNUG) – we have reached 900 members! Wow!

When I joined the inner circle a few years back I never thought that we was able to take the group to the size it got today. We have never had better enrollments for our events then what we have had for the last 6 months and we have a really good relationship with many companies in the Copenhagen area.

Thank you all for making this group real – I’m fucking proud of being part of it!

//xamlgeek

WPDEV reaches 400+ members

9 Jan

Today the Danish usergroup for Windows Phone developers (WPDEV) reached 400+ developers. During the 1½ years of existing we have held several code camps around Denmark with several hundreds of developers participating.

It’s been an pleasure to be part of the inner circle – I look forward to the next year with a lot of new stuff coming up.

//xamlgeek

Delete failed WP7 app submission

9 Jan

Sometimes it happens that one get to submit an app for certification and it fails. And in some cases one wish to just delete the submission after it fails – but that is not possible out-of-the-box on http://create.msdn.com. But there is an easy workaround.

Edit the submission details for the failed app. Add a new XAP-file – it doesn’t have be a modification of the original XAP-file. I have replaced the XAP-file with a dummy XAP-file called “delete.xap”. Hit the “Save and Quit”-button to quit the submission. In the overview the app submission have changed state to “submission incomplete”.

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Click the “submission incomplete” to go to the submission details. In the bottom you will have a “Delete submission”-button and you can delete your submission – yeah!

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//xamlgeek

Metro Style App questions in Twitter

6 Jan

MSDN got a series of Windows Metro style apps forums to cover questions within different aspects of Windows Metro style apps development. The forums are monitored by Microsoft employees and often they are replying fast to the questions. Stackoverflow got coverage of Windows 8 questions as well.

I have created @metrostyleapps giving you all questions from the MSDN forums and from Stackoverflow in Twitter. The feed is created using twitterfeed.com.

Enjoy!

//xamlgeek

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Silverlight 5 is now available

12 Dec

This weekend Silverlight 5 was released. Pete Brown has written a fine overview of the new features here. The new version is available at silverlight.net – downloads are available here and an overview of the new stuff in Silverlight 5 can be downloaded here.

//xamlgeek

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“Badevand” for Windows 8

22 Nov

Badevand (Bathing Water) is a Windows 8 metro app written in XAML and C#. It shows the water temperature, air temperature and rain level for 5 beaches in Copenhagen, Denmark.

You can download the package here.

Update with details view and more beaches will follow soon.

//xamlgeek

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Built-in antivirus in Windows 8

22 Nov

According to ZDNet and IT world Microsoft announced that they will build parts of Security Essentials antivirus into Windows 8.

I think Security Essentials is a fine product and use it as protection for all of my Windows 7 computers – this is an active choice I have performed. I understand that many end-users will benefit of free built-in anti-virus protection. Personally I would prefer a pick-and-choose strategy letting the user select their preferred anti-virus provider as part of the Windows installation process.

//xamlgeek

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Numeric keyboard on Windows Phone 7

15 Nov

Typing on a smartphone can be somewhat of a challenge. Therefore as much help as possible is often preferred. When the user selects a TextBox in a Windows Phone 7 app it will show the normal alphanumeric keyboard by default.

If the user should input a numeric value it would be a help for the user that the numeric keyboard was show as default instead. The trick is to set the InputScope property. Setting InputScope="CurrencyAmount" on a TextBox will force the numeric keyboard to be show.

//xamlgeek

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Windows Phone brugergruppen runder 300 medlemmer

12 Nov

Den danske Windows Phone brugergruppe (wpdev) er ikke mere end godt ét år gammel. Alligevel kunne gruppen i dag fejre medlem nummer 300 (tak til Keld, udviklingschef hos EG Neoprocess).

I løbet af det seneste år har brugergruppen ikke være fantastisk aktiv, men afholdte sidste år codecamps for 100+ udviklere. I løbet af november 2011 afholder gruppen igen en række codecamps i København, Århus, Odense og Aalborg – det tyder allerede på en deltagerrekord med næsten 70 tilmeldte i København alene.

//xamlgeek

Can a WP7 app expire?

8 Nov

During one of my Windows Phone talks I got a question about the expiration of a Windows Phone app. Can it expire and will it at some point be removed from the marketplace if it is rated to low during a period.

The answer is no!

An app will never expire no matter the number of downloads or what the ratings are. The only scenario where an app will be removed from the marketplace is if the app hub account expires.

//xamlgeek

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