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I recently had a SSD fail on me, and it was sent back for replacement. When I installed the SSD originally I did a Windows install, and then all the installs needed, VS2012, Phone developer SDK, SQL Server, etc. etc. - not a quick job. It therefore goes...

In Windows Phone 8 the Windows.System.Launcher class allows you to open files with apps which are registered to handle them. On Windows Phone you have built in support for Office documents and audio and video formats. Lets say you want to open a PDF either...

I recently needed to create a prototype for a Windows Phone application and having recently discovered it I decided to use Indigo Studio to build it. The application is not particularly designed for Windows Phone however it has enough standard UI controls...

I have recently been doing some work with Windows Azure Mobile Services , and have been very impressed by how easy it is to develop against. I have a blog in progress about populating databases, but after embarking on a third application using WAMS, I...

In my previous post I discovered a limitation with using the Share... extension point in the Photos app. The good news is that from within your own app you can open .png files. For this you can use the PhotoChooserTask which has been available since Windows...

As soon as I had submitted APPA Photo Navigator to the market place for certification, I thought of something that I should have added to it. One of the things that users love about Windows Phone apps are live tiles, and I realised I could use the photographs...

One of the first Windows Phone apps I wrote was Pop Quiz . The app contains the top 40 from the start of the charts in 1952 and goes up to the end of 2010. You can answer questions on any decade, and get random questions based on 'Who had a number...

With the recent announcement of Windows Embedded Handheld 8 it seems fitting to discuss something related to industrial and line-of-business applications which you can develop now on the Windows Phone platform. I've released the first drop of 32feet...