Metro Style Applications and MVVM 06 October 2011 Lander-Verhack Metro Style When working with windows 8 on a tablet, you quickly notice the different ways a user can interact with your application. Your application can control the full screen, both in landscape or portrait, or can share the screen with an other application. Basically, there are four modes your application w... [More]
Creating WP7 prototypes with Sketchflow 31 August 2011 Michael-Van-Wesemael With the upcoming release of Windows Phone Mango, you can create prototypes for Phone apps with Sketchflow. For people not knowing Sketchflow : it allows you to create prototypes that look like they have been drawn. When you present a “normal” prototype to a customer you get conversation... [More]
Make your startup task a Windows Azure startup plugin and easily re-use it 31 August 2011 Peter-Himschoot In a previous blog I showed you how to create a startup task to install certain requirements in Azure Compute. In this blog post I will show you how you can easily turn this startup task into a re-usable plugin. This post continues with the startup post. Open the UsingStartupTasks lab solution. Rig... [More]
The return of SQL CE ! 11 August 2011 Michael-Van-Wesemael After playing a few weeks with the Mango-beta, I’m even more convinced that the Windows Phone 7 simply is the best smartphone available. Driving in your car, receiving a text-message, and suddenly a voice over Bluetooth asks me if the message should be read! And after the message has been read... [More]
Excellent intro to Windows Azure 23 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, .NET Development If you want an excellent introduction into Windows Azure I can recommend “Windows Azure: Step by Step” from Roberto Brunetti. This book will teach you the basic components of Windows Azure and how to build an application with them. It will introduce you to Azure Compute, Azure Storage and Azure AppF... [More]
Windows Azure Toolkit for social games 20 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, VS2010, .NET Development Marrying Azure and HTML5: Microsoft released today the Windows Azure Toolkit for social games: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/07/20/build-your-next-game-with-the-windows-azure-toolkit-for-social-games.aspx
Installing requirements using Azure startup tasks 12 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, VS2010 Windows Azure deploys your azure web or worker role in the cloud, on a machine with Windows Server 2008 and .NET 4 pre-installed. But what if you need an additional requirement? What if you need to install some performance counter, or if you need some other piece of software like the media encoder? ... [More]
Storing message in table storage 10 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Entity Framework, Azure, VS2010 In my previous post I looked at getting started with table storage, in this one we will create a table for our entities and store them. As you’ll see, quite easy! So, to store an entity in table storage you start by creating a TableServiceEntity derived class (recap from previous post): public cla... [More]
Introducing Windows Azure Table Storage 06 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, Azure Windows Azure storage gives you several persistent and durables storage options. In this blog post I want to look at Table storage (which I prefer to call Entity storage because you can store any mix of entities in these tables; so you can store products AND customers in the same table). For t... [More]