I’ve joined the INETA Europe Speaker Bureau!

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

I am very honored and happy to announce that I’ve been selected to join the INETA Europe Speaker Bureau.

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e-Book: Explore SharePoint 2013

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

Microsoft released today the e-book “Explore SharePoint 2013“, which is freely available for download in DOC, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.

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e-Book: Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

Microsoft just released the e-book “Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012“, which is freely available for download in PDF.

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Request user to switch to Desktop version of Internet Explorer on a website

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

In Windows 8 we have two versions of the Internet Explorer, the well-known “Desktop” version, and the new “Windows Store” version, which can render everything that the “Desktop” version can, but does not support any kind of plugins like Flash, Silverlight, or Java Applets for example.

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Useful links for Windows 8 developers

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Here is a very good compilation of links that Tiago Andrade e Silva shared with me today, which developers creating Windows Store apps for Windows 8 will find very useful:

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Get access to the %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps folder and view apps source code

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

One of my preferred ways to learn new things is to read source code written by other people. Specifically on Windows 8 Windows Store apps, I like to understand how some apps were developed, which APIs or libraries were used, and even how some page layouts were designed.

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[Off-topic] Difference between a Teacher, a Trainer, and a Coach

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

In one of the mailing-lists I participate there is discussion going on about what motivates people to deliver training these days, which forked into another discussion about the difference about being a teacher, a trainer, and a coach, which I find very interesting.

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Detect DEBUG build configuration via JavaScript in Windows Store apps

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

Update (2012-09-29): Now you can use the package WinRT-JsDebugSymbols available via NuGet instead of manually adding the code to your project, and will receive future updates.

One of the things I miss when developing Windows Store apps in HTML/JavaScript, is the possibility of using conditional compilation statements, in order to have different behavior depending on the build configuration selected when the project was compiled (e.g. Debug, Release, etc…), as we do in C# using #ifdef instructions.

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Detect if the Debugger is attached via JavaScript in a Windows Store app

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

There are some cases where we want a block of o code or function to be executed only when we are debugging the application, usually to show detailed error messages that are intended only for the developer to see.

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Global exception handling in Windows Store JavaScript applications

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

When an unhandled exception occurs in a Windows Store app, this application is terminated immediately, in a silent way and without showing any error message to the user. This is the default behavior, but we can change it, if we want to.

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Physical location of Windows Store applications and data on a PC

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

When developing Windows Store applications for the Windows 8, it’s important (or at least interesting) to know where the applications get stored after installing it through the Store, where all the files go when we write to the LocalFolder, RoamingFolder, and TemporaryFolder, and also where the values that we add to the collections LocalSettings and RoamingSettings are physically stored.

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