Using WebAccountProvider with Facebook on Windows 10 Mobile
For a while now, there have been a few ways for developers to allow a user to sign into Facebook: They could use the WebAuthenticationBroker, which launched a hosted window the user could enter their...
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If you’ve tried submitting a Windows 10 app to the store recently, you may have come across a problem where it’s asking you to enter store information for a language your app isn’t configured to...
View ArticleDevice Family Views: Some Continuum Advice
There are a number of blog posts, that show off a new feature in Windows 10 development call xaml views, that allow you to have a different xaml file for the same page depending on the device family (a...
View ArticleDealing with Right-to-Left Languages, Things to Consider
Localising your apps can be hard, whether it’s finding the funds to get all your resources localised, or finding community members who will help you do it, it’s never easy. Those levels of difficulty...
View ArticleCreating a Weather App Style Adaptive Tile
In Windows 10, we’ve seen apps that look to have different tile faces and they cycle between those tiles. It’s a really nice effect and can be a very powerful thing for your app to use, it allows you...
View ArticleUniversal Windows Apps, AppBars and Custom Colours
In your Universal app, you may want to have AppBars that have different colours from the default theme colours, which is understandable if you want to add your own branding to it. But when you set the...
View ArticlePersonalisation, Cimbalino and Universal Windows Apps
With Windows 10, two key areas of personalisation for a user are the lock screen and the wallpaper images, and this is both on phone and desktop. And on both you’ve always been able to set the lock...
View ArticleMy UWP Nuget Package is Missing a File?
When creating a nuget package that’s intended for a UWP, you’d be excused for creating your package in the same way you always have done, you include the new uap10.0 TFM (Target Framework Moniker) and...
View ArticleIntroducing InteractiveToastExtensions for Universal Windows Apps
One of the new ways users can interact with your app is through notifications. Now, notifications are nothing new, for either Phone or Desktop, however, what’s been added to 10 is new. With Universal...
View ArticleWindows Universal Apps, Cimbalino and the App Back Button
One of the things you can add to a Desktop variant of a Universal Windows App is a back button that a developer can add to their app; this back button appears in the top left corner of the app. In...
View ArticleUsing WebAccountProvider with Facebook on Windows 10 Mobile
For a while now, there have been a few ways for developers to allow a user to sign into Facebook: They could use the WebAuthenticationBroker, which launched a hosted window the user could enter their...
View ArticleGot Unexpected, Extra Languages in Your UWP Store Submission?
If you’ve tried submitting a Windows 10 app to the store recently, you may have come across a problem where it’s asking you to enter store information for a language your app isn’t configured to...
View ArticleDevice Family Views: Some Continuum Advice
There are a number of blog posts, that show off a new feature in Windows 10 development call xaml views, that allow you to have a different xaml file for the same page depending on the device family (a...
View ArticleDealing with Right-to-Left Languages, Things to Consider
Localising your apps can be hard, whether it’s finding the funds to get all your resources localised, or finding community members who will help you do it, it’s never easy. Those levels of difficulty...
View ArticleCreating a Weather App Style Adaptive Tile
In Windows 10, we’ve seen apps that look to have different tile faces and they cycle between those tiles. It’s a really nice effect and can be a very powerful thing for your app to use, it allows you...
View ArticleUniversal Windows Apps, AppBars and Custom Colours
In your Universal app, you may want to have AppBars that have different colours from the default theme colours, which is understandable if you want to add your own branding to it. But when you set the...
View ArticlePersonalisation, Cimbalino and Universal Windows Apps
With Windows 10, two key areas of personalisation for a user are the lock screen and the wallpaper images, and this is both on phone and desktop. And on both you’ve always been able to set the lock...
View ArticleMy UWP Nuget Package is Missing a File?
When creating a nuget package that’s intended for a UWP, you’d be excused for creating your package in the same way you always have done, you include the new uap10.0 TFM (Target Framework Moniker) and...
View ArticleIntroducing InteractiveToastExtensions for Universal Windows Apps
One of the new ways users can interact with your app is through notifications. Now, notifications are nothing new, for either Phone or Desktop, however, what’s been added to 10 is new. With Universal...
View ArticleWindows Universal Apps, Cimbalino and the App Back Button
One of the things you can add to a Desktop variant of a Universal Windows App is a back button that a developer can add to their app; this back button appears in the top left corner of the app. In...
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