Some days ago when uploading my Windows app to the Store, I’ve got a strange error message : “A previous submission for this app was released with a Windows Phone 8.1 appxbundle. Subsequent submissions must…
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Windows Phone : localize your App name
When you build a Windows Phone App, you for sure take some time to translate it in several language. By default there is no easy way to translate the app name but you can do…
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…
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…
AppHub Tracker : track your wp7 apps from your phone !
Do you have a lot of windows phone apps ? Are you always checking the AppHub when you release a new version, wondering if it’s ok to release it ? Are you always asking yourself…
[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app.
Something new which came with Mango is the ability for the developers to set the number of bits per pixel our app use. By doing this, your app will have shiny graphics! This increase the…
WP7 : how to get the version number of my application ?
It’s always a good thing to provide information to the users of your application. One thing which may seem trivial is the version number. In fact it’s a really important information because with it the…
MVVM : De la découverte à la maîtrise – my book is out !
MVVM is the pattern to know when building WPF, Silverlight, Windows phone and even WinRT (for what I know!) application. There is already some good books in english which can help the developers to discover…
MANGO live tile: use a picture in the IsolatedStorage as a background for your tile
One on the nice feature coming with WP7’s mango is “live tiles” . You can create tiles directly from your application and update them from a background agent. Here is the sample which creates a “secondary tile”…