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My learnings, my perspective.
Show file thumbnails in your Windows Store App
If your app has a requirement where you use a filepicker and then show the files that the user...
Date: 01/14/2015
Slide to shutdown in Windows 8.1 – great for touch devices
This is going to be a small post! I found a small gem in Windows\System32 folder called...
Date: 05/19/2014
Status Bar (SystemTray) for Silverlight Apps for Windows Phone 8.1?
In my last post, I talked about using the “Status Bar” in Windows Phone 8.1 to make optimal use of...
Date: 05/12/2014
Status Bar in Windows Phone 8.1
Have you used the Bing apps for Windows Phone? You know, Bing News, Weather, Travel etc.? How about...
Date: 05/11/2014
Creating a simple “Tile” button in HTML/CSS and as an ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper
If you have worked with SharePoint 2013, you may have noticed a “tile” button. Something that looks...
Date: 11/15/2013
How are shortcuts created and managed on the Windows 8 Start screen?
To summarize: Shortcuts can be created on the Windows 8 Start screen by creating a folder in...
Date: 03/06/2013
Better control(s) with Visual State Manager
We had talked about Visual States very briefly when we were discussing how we handle different views...
Date: 02/26/2013
Hello world, with Knockout JS and ASP.NET MVC 4!
I heard about Knockout a few months ago, but never gave it a proper try – at least not with...
Date: 12/11/2012
The “Light” theme for Windows store apps
I was recently talking to a developer working on a Windows store app and he said: “Dude, why the...
Date: 11/26/2012
Windows Phone and Windows 8 learning resources
That’s right – 400 million new devices on the Windows ecosystem this year obviously represents the...
Date: 09/05/2012
The small joys of using PowerShell
I was looking for some good tech talks to download for the weekend and came across “Techdays 2012...
Date: 05/04/2012
“Task List” and comments
I found something very interesting with Visual Studio from a code-commenting/todo-list perspective....
Date: 04/25/2012
The Windows Phone Application Bar
We talked about providing quick access to key functionalities in my earlier post, and one of the...
Date: 11/22/2011
My first blog post on MSDN!
I always thought my first blog post will be a tale to tell, totally interesting piece of work that...
Date: 11/19/2011