marker based ar with monogame and wp8
Marker based Augmented Reality is really easy thanks to toolkits like SLAR. A bigger challenge is when you want to use those toolkits in a Monogame applicati...
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data validation in windows phone 8
Whenever you need to do data input you’re probably going to add some form of data validation. There is a ton of information out there on how to do this in Si...
xaml styler for visual studio 2013
Xaml Styler is a free Visual Studio 2012 extension available from the gallery. I’ve been using this extension for quite some time now and I’m really happy wi...
viewmodelbackstack for when you navigate to the same page
When working on my comic application for Windows Phone I encountered a problem that I’ve had in the past and have heard others ran into as well. When on the ...
launching a win8 app from wp8 with azure custom api
Imagine you have an app where people can browse through all sorts of data, let’s take Wikipedia for example. You find an interesting article on the Wikipedia...
longlistselector with bindable selecteditem
In Windows Phone 8 Microsoft wants us to use the LongListSelector instead of the ListBox. But it seems they forgot about something, the SelectedItem property...
don’t forget the system tray in your wp8 app
The system tray in Windows Phone 8 is the small bar at the top where the clock, signal strength, connectivity icons, etc. reside. In most apps I’ve used deve...
navigating pages in wp8 like in win8
Currently, there are quite some inconsistencies between the Windows Phone SDK and the Windows 8 SDK. One of the very first that you’ll run into when developi...
making resharper and mvvm light’s viewmodelbase play nice
ReSharper and MVVM Light are probably my two most used pieces of software. I can’t live without Resharper’s refactoring skills and doing any kind of XAML dev...
community day 2013
Yesterday was the day for Community day 2013, already the seventh edition. A bunch of user groups working together to create a great agenda of presentations...