Dev – john Visio MVP

Stand up and be counted.

Last Year I joined a number of the Canadian MVPs for a day of NDA, skill improvement and general interactions. For most of the sessions, the key word was caNaDA, so the only thing I can say about those sessions is the Microsoft has some interesting announcements coming up in the near future. Of course,Continue reading “Stand up and be counted.”

UWP Samples generate hundred of errors?

For the past few months I have had problems trying to run any of the Windows 10 UWP samples. Each attempt resulted in hundreds of errors. Yesterday, thanks to Colin Melia and a little Google spelunking I may have found the issue and the solution. The Googling turned up https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples/issues/182 which indicates the same issues andContinue reading “UWP Samples generate hundred of errors?”

WP7 Multilingual AppBar.

The current phone app I am working on is based around a pivot and to get the most out of the pivot I want to use a different appbar for each pivot item. Luckily, Microsoft has a good article on how to do it. How to use different app bars in a single Pivot controlContinue reading “WP7 Multilingual AppBar.”

WP7 Database Caveat

Lately I have been playing with Pivots for the WP7 and how to add filtering. I did have a MVVM example that I was able to add filtering and convert it to a pivot, but I am not sure the final result was the best way. Susan Ibach, aka HockeyGeekGirl, pointed me to a recent postContinue reading “WP7 Database Caveat”