10/07/2016 – Update: Today the built in MS calendar was updated to version 17.7369.40738.0. Creating and deleting appointments from other apps now works again. At the moment I get many emails from users of my app Week View that creating…
Live Tile Calendar 10 on HoloLens
Yesterday the Emulator for HoloLens was released, could not wait to see my App „Live Tile Calendar 10“ running on it! 🙂 …now I guess…I need a „real device“, too bad they cost $3000, hey MS will you send me…
Porting Week View to UWP and some unexpected problems
Update 2: The last preview build in the fast ring for WM10 (10.0.14267.1002) also did not fix this bug. So I have lost my hope that this will be fixed before the rollout of WM10 for all devices, which currently is…
Migrating a real world universal windows platform app to Xamarin.Forms
Some time ago I blogged about my first experiments and „playing around“ with Xamarin. In my opinion the best way to learn a new technology is by actually using it, so I decided to port my app „Daily Activities“ to…
Porting apps to UWP – creating appointments not working?
UPDATE: It is working, but you need to give your app some special permissions. Description is well hidden in MSDN documentation: <rescap:Capability Name=„appointmentsSystem“/> UWP (Universal windows platform) is a great idea! Developers can create apps that target UWP an these apps…
Yeah – let’s do some Xamarin development!
Last month Xamarin had a great offer for independent windows phone developers: Provide access to their ‚Business license‘ for free, please see: https://blog.xamarin.com/free-xamarin-subscriptions-for-windows-phone-developers/ Some time ago I created smaller apps for android using Java and Eclipse but these were quite…
Let’s create an app for the MS Band
MS Build 2015 is history and as always had much interesting information for developers. Some things are really awesome (I want a hololense device!!), others left me sceptical like running android and iOS apps on windows 10…but future will tell how…
Adventures in SensorCore SDK land
The Lumia SensorCore SDK (http://developer.nokia.com/resources/library/Lumia/sensorcore-sdk.html) caught my attention since the 0.9 beta version and I always wanted to create an app with it. It allows a developer to access “motion data” (when the user allows it), which is stored on…
Adding new features is now always as simple as it should be…
It’s been some time since the last blog entry. Meanwhile I am working on some new apps in the category „fitness tracking“, that use the „Sensor Core SDK“ to track steps and activity – more about this later, when the…
Personal thoughts about the windows phone API
Usually I am writing about news according to my apps but today something more general and related to windows phone app development. So read this at your own risk, if you are not a developer. 🙂 Programing windows phone is…