There’s been a lot of announcements here at Build today, including the availability of the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK. This release brings a common Xaml UI framework between Windows Phone and Windows and some tooling support to enable you to easily share C# and Xaml between the two platforms called Universal Windows apps.
It’s been a long time coming but I’m really happy to say the Nokia developer reward program DVLUP is now available in New Zealand. We at Marker Metro have been working with Nokia to set up a launch here in Auckland. Come along to find out more about it and get a recap of the news and announcements from Build. RSVP here.
The application of a convention in Caliburn.Micro is a bit of a pipeline with multiple steps, almost all of them we can modify, let’s look at bringing value converters into the equation.
I’ve seen a lot of content around lately discussing the use of custom uri protocols in your Windows Tablet and Phone apps. They’re a great way to have other apps launch your app in a deep link kind of way, however I don’t think developers are really using them to their full potential.
The new AppBarButton control in Windows 8.1 is incredibly useful, the ability to use symbols, gylphs, images or paths as an icon within the button makes it a lot easier to customise that in 8.0. There’s just one slight problem.