😮 I am really writing a blog post on C++ ? Yest it seems so :). At this year MVP Summit I discovered how much fun I can have with C++ (and especially C++/Cx in…
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WinRT : how to cancel a Background Download Operation
Today a quick tip, easy to code but hard to find if you don’t know where to look for : how to cancel a DownloadOperation !
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Win8 XAML video player : easy globalization / translations
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Win8 App : stream videos from a Windows Azure Blob storage
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Store the access to files/folders instead of using a picker each time !
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AppHub Tracker : track your wp7 apps from your phone !
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WinJS – how to use resources and do some globalization
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