I’d like to have a page in Conference Buddy that lists all the customer contacts. We’re currently writing these contacts to file in JSON format.
My goal for today is to read that file and populate a ListView with the contents, using data binding.
Microsoft’s guidance for Windows 8 applications is based on content over chrome. Development styles for prior versions of Windows often included navigation controls, buttons, tabs, and other non-content related items intermixed with the data, often obscuring the information that the application was trying to convey. This isn’t to say that we were all doing it wrong all of these years, as there wasn’t a mechanism (or even guidance) in place to provide an alternative.
Every Windows 8 application must also support SnapView, in which your application is allocated 320x768 pixels – that is, your application is squeezed into a relatively thin sliver on the left or right of the screen.
GridView leaves much to be desired in SnapView and the common solution is to hide your GridView and to display the same data in a ListView, which works well in those dimensions as it scrolls vertically.
In my previous post, I discussed the recent enhancements to Fiddler’s ImageView extension that expose metadata about image files under inspection. My initial goal in exposing metadata was to help you optimize the size of images in order to build faster websites. However, in some cases the privacy implications of such metadata can be of far greater concern.
One of the capabilities of Icenium that makes testing your mobile apps simpler is the ability to deploy applications in development to iOS devices without the need to provision them thought Apple’s developer portal, which requires a $99/year developer account. While getting a device provisioned...
Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to deliver you an awesome Q1 2013 release (which you can read more about, here). Along the way, we figured today was time to drop a Service Pack for Q3 2012, which includes a bunch of new...
The new additions to the service include the ability to use Environment data in the Advanced Query and improvements to the usability of the filtering experience by introducing an ability to tag and annotate individual items. Also included is a new feature that allows you to better control how data in the feature views are visualized by providing both expand and collapse functionality.
I mentioned earlier that I’m going to be heading up a breakfast event on 1/29 in New York city at the Microsoft office. Due to some schedule changes we’ve had to tweak the first session. Instead of the SOLID talk previously scheduled I will be presenting an Intro to Unit Testing talk. I’ve given this talk many times over the years and I always love doing it. The talk’s in C# using NUnit and JustMock, but the concepts are the same regardless of whatever testing infrastructure you’re using. I hope to see you there! (Why not go register now...
Do you know what's better than building a Windows Application? Building a single application that not only runs on Windows, but also runs on Mac. And Linux. AND Chrome OS. Chrome Packaged Apps run anywhere that Chrome runs. They give you complete access to the device's native API's...