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Posted on December 13, 2012 by Chris Koenig
Using WNS as part of your Windows 8 Store app? Digging into Windows Azure Mobile Services? The Windows Notification Service is a key part of the Windows 8 platform and really great apps know how to use Push Notifications to make their great apps awesome. Here’s a reference I got from my teammate Nick Harris [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2012 by Chris Koenig
My good friend and colleague Taylor Cowan has begun working on a blog post series entitled “25 Ways Software Startups can use BizSpark”. Even if you haven’t already formed a company around your latest great idea, Taylor’s series will help you understand how startups can take the best advantage of all the amazing features that BizSpark has to [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2012 by Chris Koenig
My teammate in Ann Arbor, Jennifer Marsman, recently published a blog series on tips for getting your Windows 8 application through the certification process. In the series, she the common problems developers run into when submitting their applications to the Windows 8 Store for certification, and gives some great tips on how to avoid them all together. [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2012 by Chris Koenig
I was working on a Windows 8 application tonight, as part of some Azure content that I’m creating, and ran into a weird error. I wanted to share it here in case other people ran into the same issue. I have a very simple application – it’s essentially a simplified News Reader app that collects [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 29, 2012 by Chris Koenig
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Dev Radio: Community CornerI recently had the pleasure to interview wicked smart Microsoft Client App Dev MVP Michael Perry as part of the Microsoft DevRadio show to hear about the amazing work he’s done on an open source databinding framework called Update Controlswhich can help Windows [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2012 by Chris Koenig
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Dev Radio: Community CornerI had the great pleasure recently to interview Microsoft C# MVP Shawn Weisfeld as part of the Microsoft DevRadio show to hear about the Windows 8 app he built for UserGroup.tv. Tune in and listen to this great story as Shawn describes his [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2012 by Chris Koenig
Tulsa TechFest is the premier technical conference in eastern Oklahoma, boasting “the broadest topics in the United States, maybe the world”. Sporting a healthy 18 separate tracks across multiple disciplines including architecture, software and web development, databases, project management, security, social media, mobile, enterpreneurs, managers, BI & reporting, mentoring and even a special Windows 8 Track, [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2012 by Chris Koenig
I know this has been in the oven for some time now, but I just got the email confirmation this morning that GameSalad – creators of the popular “no coding required” game development environment – now support publishing to the Windows Store! I’ve used the GameSalad environment a bit, and although I’m a far cry [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2012 by Chris Koenig
One of our local MVPs, Michael Perry, has written a great article about scaling collaborative Windows 8 applications with Correspondence and Windows Azure. Azure is a great way to quickly deploy and scale your web sites. Correspondence is a rich framework for bringing collaborative experiences to multiple platforms. When these two come together, amazing things [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 15, 2012 by Chris Koenig
Starting immediately, Windows Store app submission is open to all registered Windows Store developers including individuals and companies. Join the excitement and become part of the vibrant community of app and game developers for Windows 8. I am starting tonight to migrate a few of the Windows Phone apps I’ve already built, as well as [...]
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