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Build a Windows Runtime Component for Windows Phone 8 and pass it a String

After having spent the better part of a day discovering how to build a simple C++ library for a Windows Phone 8 app, I thought I’d share. The few couple steps are relatively easy: Create your Windows Phone 8 app in C# or VB Add an additional project using Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 09, 2013 3:54 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Finally - a decent SDK for SkyDrive for Win8 and WinPhone8

After much searching and reading of the circular-referencing Live SDK documentation, I *finally* found a library on GitHub that does exactly what we needed: Simple, API-based SkyDrive manipulation with working examples! Three cheers for the Live SDK for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:42 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Windows Phone Dev Tools

If you’re doing development on Windows Phone you will really want to get these two tools:   First, Windows Phone Tools (standalone app) from Codeplex: http://wptools.codeplex.com/ Second, Isolated Storage Explorer extension for Visual Studio 2012 Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:46 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Goodbye 2012 - Hello 2013!

Well, 2012 was an interesting year, technology-wise for me. I used new tools, revisited old dusty corners of my techno-memory and learned a bit about teaching technology. Q1 – 2012 ======= In the early part of the year I completed my first from-scratch Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 30, 2012 2:42 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Windows Phone 8 Audio Recording using Windows.Phone.Media.Capture - Sample Code / Example

Well…, I finally figured out how to use the new Windows.Phone.Media.Capture API to record audio on my Nokia 920 Windows Phone 8 device! Unlike the XNA-based recording feature which works on Windows Phone 7.x that only retrieves raw data, this new Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:04 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Windows Phone Libraries

As I’m plotting updates to my Windows Phone course for Windows Phone 8, I ran across a number of interesting libraries that Windows Phone devs might find useful. All are open-source and available via NuGet: The Windows Phone Toolkit from Microsoft Phoney Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2012 4:53 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Adventures in writing - my iOS Course

As I said earlier, I’m working on an online video course for iOS developers. After covering the basics of the 30,000 ft. view, a quick Hello World app, an XCode tour and a short “Objective-C for C# and Java developers”, I’m on Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2012 3:00 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Windows Phone 8 is going to be fun!

With the release of Windows Phone 8, I’m starting to look at all the new and updated features to figure out how my Windows Phone SDK Essential Training course might be updated. I’m surprised that Microsoft’s developer site seems to be a little short on Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 11, 2012 10:00 AM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Cranking it on the new iOS course

I’m working on a new video-based course for beginning iOS developers.  Finally got all the kinks worked out of the recording systems and dove into actually recording the content today! If you have any questions about developing for iOS please let Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:10 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Bug Squashed–ios6 UIAlertView and modal views

Today’s ex-bug is a doozy.  I have code which has been running on iOS since iOS3 and it just stopped working recently in iOS6. UIAlertView is an API call which presents a popup ‘dialog’ at the bottom of the screen with one or more buttons used in Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2012 4:05 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Debugging Win8 Store Apps using Remote Desktop

Today’s Win8 developer head scratcher: Run Visual Studio 2012 on another computer using Remote Desktop (RDC) and when you press F5 to debug, if you minimize the RDC window while it’s launching, the “store” app never appears.  Visual Studio thinks Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2012 2:18 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Lessons learned and journeys taken - DreamTimeStudioZ first 18 months

It's been far too long since I've blogged and probably few people read this feed anymore.  Time to share some lessons learned and journeys taken!   First, I'm now officially a teacher... of sorts.  Last spring I recorded my first online Read More...
Posted Monday, October 01, 2012 5:05 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments

Adventures in SoftwareLand - the CV

In addition to the daily delight of driving our new consulting/mobile app venture, DreamTimeStudioZ , forward, I am exploring other software-related but not software-producing consulting opportunities. To prepare for this new adventure, a full-on, comprehensive Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:19 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

The OnPC Developers Podcast is Live!

Episode #1 of the OnPC (On-Person-Computer) Developer's Podcast is now live at http://onpcdev.com If you develop for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, webOS and more, it's what's hot, what's new and what's Read More...
Posted Friday, September 17, 2010 6:25 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

OnPC Podcast - Setting up

Ok, want to follow on Twitter? http://www.twitter.com/onpcdev Want to comment about OnPC Development? Use #onpc and/or #onpcdev hashtags. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:08 PM by Michael_Lehman | 1 Comments
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