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Month: March 2013

  • App to App Communication in Windows Phone 8

    Learn all about app to app communication in Windows Phone 8. In this video, Andy and Rob demonstrate app to app communication in Windows Phone 8. Topics such as auto-launching with File and Protocol Associations (URI), launching apps to handle particular File Types, and launching one app from another are covered. Be sure to check…

  • IT Pro Talk: Mobile device management and Windows Phone 8

    Last month I introduced you to the business hub for Windows Phone 8, a site where IT professionals can find white papers and info for deploying Windows Phones in the workplace. In this post, I’ll drill in a little and detail some of the mobile device management (MDM) capabilities of Windows Phone 8, highlighting related IT pro…

  • Keeping Windows Tablets in Sync with SQL Server

    So you need to build a mobile enterprise app that runs on Windows tablets… Your app must retrieve data from SQL Server and take it offline.  It must allow the mobile user to view, manipulate, capture new information, and then send it back to the data center.  There’s lots of data involved, so you require…

  • Windows (Phone) 9 pointerait le bout de son nez ?

    Apparues dans des documents non accessibles au public, des informations laisseraient croire que Microsoft disséminerait déjà des indices sur la suite de l’après “Windows Blue” et le terme « Windows (Phone) 9 » a été mentionné à divers endroits. On retrouve ainsi sur le profil Linkedin d’un employé chez Microsoft, une phrase plutôt univoque.  On peut y lire :  Travaille en…

  • Leap Motion’s Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer Interaction

    While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the Leap Motion team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We’ve been writing about the company for a while now, but this was a chance to see the technology in-person, and to use it with existing apps. Thankfully, my…

  • Leap Motion’s Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer Interaction

    While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the Leap Motion team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We’ve been writing about the company for a while now, but this was a chance to see the technology in-person, and to use it with existing apps. Thankfully, my…

  • Migrating ANIDs to Windows Phone 8

    This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. – Adam ANID and ANID2 ANID (anonymous ID) and ANID2 are hashed representations of the Microsoft account the user has entered on the device. ANID and ANID2 refer to the string values returned by UserExtendedProperties.GetValue(“ANID”) and UserExtendedProperties.GetValue(“ANID2”).…

  • Tips for localizing Windows Phone apps – Part 2

    This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. – Adam As part 2 of this two-part series, this post focuses on the great new Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) v1.2 offered by the Windows International team. This Windows 8 tool now supports Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone…

  • Retour aux basiques : Qu’est ce que l’UX ?

    Il y a quelques années le terme UX est apparu en France et a été massivement adopté. Les intitulés de postes « ergonome web/IHM » ont presque disparu et les UX designer ont  fleuri un peu partout. Octo n’a pas échappé à cette tendance : avant de devenir la lob UX nous étions la lob Usabilité. Nos clients…

  • Microsoft Adds Android Support To Windows Azure Mobile Services

    Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Mobile Services, a cloud backend for mobile applications. But at the time, it only supported Windows 8, and the team then added iOS and Windows Phone 8 support a short while later. Starting today, Android users can also connect their apps to Azure Mobile Services and use the platform to…