Windows Phone: UserControls inheritance
Quick tip: the best way to implement usercontrol inheritance is to have a parent class that is a class file, and that inherits the UserControl class. So just a cs file, no xaml, and the class is thus...
View ArticleMicrosoft Q2 2013
New results are out! As usually, let’s focus on the online services division. First, the income: 2010 2011 2012 2013 Q1 490 547 641 697 Q2 581 713 784 869 Q3 566 667 707 Q4 565 680 735 Then the losses:...
View ArticleWindows Phone ads not showing up
Just check that you have the following capabilities mentioned in your manifest file: (see here) WP7: ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER ID_CAP_MEDIALIB ID_CAP_NETWORKING ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT...
View ArticleNew Windows Phone app: Places Manager
I just recently checked this small app and I must say it’s coming quite handy. The app is called Places Manager, it’s free (comes with ads) allows mt to quickly save the places that matter to me, like...
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Forcing the update to Windows Phone 7.8 on my Lumia 800
Update 1: I just received the update from build 8779, not the expected 8858. At the end of that update, I was disappointed to see Zune tell me that my phone was up to date. Apparently, repeating...
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My new Windows Phone app: Balloon Battle
It’s a game! I am happy to have it finally accepted in the market place! This app has been really fun to develop and to create, since it’s a game and it’s my first game. Here’s the link:...
View ArticleStreaming youtube videos from Surface RT to Xbox TV
Wow, that was a tough one. I must say this is the kind of issue where Microsoft, according to me, totally deserves their reputation and current lack of success. So, to the point: I was at a friend the...
View ArticleChanging TextBox Cursor/Carret color in Windows Phone
All you need is a style for your textbox, as follows: <Style TargetType=”TextBox” x:Key=”MyStyle”> <Setter Property=”FontSize” Value=”28″/> <Setter Property=”Width” Value=”350″/>...
View ArticlePlaying video from Windows 8 to Xbox: what a mess
So, following up on my previous blog, I have been happily playing videos from my Surface or Windows 8 laptop until yesterday. I followed the required steps: download the video, connect to Xbox...
View ArticleScrollbar and Scrollviewer with Windows Phone
I just figured out a nice one concerning the interesting topic of the scrollbars with Windows Phone. I had a hard time getting a scrollbar appear around my canvas. I then decided to change my code to...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Marketing Issue
Microsoft’s marketing problems are pretty simple, if you ask me. When a company communicates, it can do so about the following: What it does: Microsoft does that, but not so well. I mean, in Europe,...
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Bing Home Page: Today’s Version
The Bing home page seems to be – again – in heavily testing on Microsoft’s side. Yesterday, I had a new version, but only in IE10, like this: Today in IE10, I am back with the “old” version, like this:...
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Bing results: new features for forums
While I am not sure when exactly this feature was added, as a regular Bing user, I am pretty sure it was added pretty recently. So, when performing searches that yield result from discussion forums,...
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Android Facebook OS? Muh?
Facebook is really becoming a strange thing. Less cool than before (aren’t all the parents using this?), it seems that Mark Zuck is gonna miss the point again with phones. After the famously unfamous...
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Glasses and watch, mmmmm
So everyone’s gonna come with one of their own. Google’s apparently not gonna stay alone for long in the smart glasses market, and Apple’s not alone anymore as a rumoured smart watch maker. Microsoft’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft Q3 2013
And here’s our favorite moment: the financial results. Good job Microsoft! The decrease of PC sales couldn’t keep Microsoft from improving their results. How impressive is that? As usually, let’s focus...
View ArticleXbox: another Microsoft marketing fiasco
During the last 10 years, how many times did Microsoft manage to actually perform an announcement correctly? Let me answer that one for you: none. You would think that in such a big company, they would...
View ArticleMicrosoft Keynotes: Solving the Problem
Following up on my previous post, I want to reflect a few minutes on what Microsoft could do to put an end to what seems to a endless series of missed events. So here’s what I would do about Microsoft...
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Another Nokia Keynote: Zoom Reinvented!
As Mary-Jo pointed out today, Nokia has announced a 5 hour log (!!) keynote, to be held in New York on July 11th. As shown on the invite below, the event is called “Zoom. Reinvented” and is suddenly...
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