Earlier Posts
A nice touch to your blog is to have a link to copy the code you have entered. Another great feature is to have your code colored as it would be in Visual Studio. There a couple of ways you can do this. Here is how I prefer to do it!
I needed a script to load a database with dummy items. I created a Scheduler script with a simple loop to insert 1000 items into my table. I found that when I ran this script it would kick off and seemingly never complete. What was worse, my service was returning a 500 internal server error when I tried to hit it!
We document how to send push notifications using Mobile Services fairly well. You can use the wns object and push the notification. This is documented here:
Using Push Notifications for my Windows Store app I needed to debug what message was being received for my Tile Notifications. The payload however was just a hex blob and THAT wasn’t too useful. Here is what I did to find the payload and see what was in it.
30 Jan 2013
Hey all! Check out this blog for more Windows Store and Windows Phone developer issues!
27 Dec 2012
Just a quick post in case you run up against this issue.
14 Dec 2012
I had a customer issue that I thought I would share in the event you run into this issue (it may save you some heartburn).
23 Nov 2012
I was helping a customer with a problem they were encountering when trying to build a package for submission to the Windows App Store. The error was:
I have an old (circa 2007) Dell Inspirion 1521 laptop and wanted to get a better Video driver installed for Windows 8. I found a Vista 64 bit driver on the Dell site that seems to work very well (compared to the generic drivers): http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails/DriverFileFormats/Product/latitude-d531?DriverId=X2T0W&FileId=2731098358&urlProductCode=False
These codes are hex representations of the underlying WinINet error codes. You can use calc to translate the code from hex to decimal and then look up that error here:
I answered a couple of certificate questions in the C# Windows Store applications forum that you all may find useful:
01 Mar 2012