Category: Dev
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Network Monitoring for Windows Phone Apps
This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. – Jonathan Consumers and businesses are increasingly becoming dependent on the continuous connection of smartphones to networks. However, there is a side effect that stems from such pervasive network connectivity, which is often termed as bill shock…
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Inside the Newest Kinect for Windows SDK—Infrared Control
The Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) October release was a pivotal update with a number of key improvements. One important update in this release is how control of infrared (IR) sensing capabilities has been enhanced to create a world of new possibilities for developers. IR sensing is a core feature of the Kinect…
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Updating your Windows Phone Location code to use WinRT
This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team. – Adam In this post I describe how you can optionally modify your Windows Phone 7 geolocation code to use the new Windows Runtime (WinRT) Geolocation APIs in Windows Phone 8. Modifying your code to use the…
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Windows Phone Toolkit overview
The Toolkit team is proud to announce the release of the Windows Phone 8 version of the Windows Phone Toolkit. Here’s what’s new: New toolkit download from CodePlex Installation exclusively through NuGet (deprecated .msi download file) Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 toolkits in a single package New controls and features Bug fixesFor those…
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Networking in Windows Phone 8
A couple of weeks ago at //BUILD I did an overview of the API surface and features offered for networking in Windows Phone 8. Over the next few months, I’ll be writing drill-down posts focused on the individual sections I showed in the networking session. These posts will use the examples I used at //BUILD,…
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Performance testing with Selenium and JMeter
In this blog I will show a way to do performance testing with Selenium. The reason I use Selenium for performance testing is that some applications use proprietary protocols between the application layer in the browser and the server. So just capturing the traffic between the server and replaying modified traffic is not that simple.…
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Adapting your WebKit-optimized site for Internet Explorer 10
Ensuring that your site works great on Windows Phone 8 is easier than ever, thanks to extensive HTML5 support in Internet Explorer 10. You might currently target WebKit on a site specifically optimized to support iOS or Android. Now, it’s very easy to adapt a WebKit-optimized site to also support IE10. This means you’ll have…
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jKinect : « kinectify the web »
Comme dirait Steve Ballmer : “Kinect, Kinect, Kinect”. Si vous n’avez jamais entendu parler de Kinect, vous étiez surement dans une cave durant les 2 dernières années (je ne vous en veux pas, dans ce cas lisez Kinect: Tour d’horizon tout naturellement). En début d’année (février 2012), Kinect s’est invité officiellement sur les PC grâce…
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Pattern UI : Les Headers et footers XXL dans le webdesign
Les tendances du webdesign ont évolué très rapidement ces dernières années. Parmi celles-ci, on trouve des headers (les hauts de page) très imposants et des footers (les bas de pages) king size ! Ces deux éléments sont devenus les clés de voute d’un bon webdesign et d’un look&feel efficace … Cette évolution que l’on observe…
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Windows Phone 8: Evolution of the Runtime and Application Compatibility
Long time back at the wake of the release of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) I posted about the Windows Phone 7 series programming model. I also published how .NET Compact framework powered the applications on WP7. Further simplifying the block diagram, we can think of the entire WP7 application system as follows As with most…