Did you remember Windows 8 ? The theme of your app was set once at the launch and you could’nt change it dyamically or set once by control. This was really annoying in some case…
Posts By Jonathan ANTOINE
[WinRT] How to get the language code actually used to resolve a resource
I am working on an app with a lot of different languages. This is really great because there is a lot more chances that the user get the app in its spoken tongue. You can…
Win8/XAML : how to create a TextBlock with clickables hyperlinks in it
Xaml is really powerful and you can build nearly any user interface you want with it. However it can be hard sometimes and in this post I will describe how you can create something I…
Miscellaneous : how to receive readable .wav voicemail messages on you Windows Phone
I am a great fan of my Windows Phone and yesterday I found one missing feature. Since I do not have visual voice-mail (because I am using the french operator “Free Mobile“), I wanted to…
WinJS : use the same data in the zoomed out and zoomed in view.
The Semantic zoom let you display your data in a zoomed out and zoomed in way. It’s really fine when your data is grouped but sometimes you need to display a non-grouped data just in…
WP Toolkit : Adding a item in the SelectedItems collection of a LongListMultiSelector actually adds 2…
A quick blog post about a bug I encountered today with the LongListMultiSelector : adding 2 items in its SelectedItem property actually adds 2 items (twice the same) in the SelectedItem collection. This is quite…
[WPDev] CustomMessageBox + OnNavigatedTo + Navigate = Exception !
The Windows Phone Toolkit is really useful. Yesterday, while I was updating my ConsoTracker app, I met a strange bug using the CustomMessageBox : it was raising a nullReference exception. Let’s see what was the…
Win8 XAML App : how to debug the javascript in a WebView !
When you build a Windows 8 Xaml app you sometimes need to put a WebView in it and run some custom Javascript in the loaded html page. I recommend you to read this MSDN blog…
C++/CX : how to fix the “precompiled header file is from a previous version of the compiler” error
This is just a quick post about this error I sometime have when I change the targeted platform of my C++/Cx project: “precompiled header file is from a previous version of the compiler, or the…
[Win8] The cached file updater contract or how to make more useful the File Save Picker contract
As you can read on MSDN, there is in fact a lot of contracts available for a Windows 8 app. Today, I want to describe one which is very useful for the Dropbox client I…
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