Fresh look !
I guess it was time for a change ! Yesterday I updated the look of this blog to the Thirty Thirteen theme of WordPress. I also setup a nice header using a picture of Grenoble the city I live in. On top...
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VS2013: upgrading a Windows Phone 7/8 and Windows 8 apps
In this post I will showcase issues I had while upgrading a Visual Studio 2012 solution containing a Windows Phone app (with both 7.8 and 8.0 versions) and Windows Store app to Visual Studio 2013. As...
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WinRT 8.1: this is why you will use the Properties pane in Visual Studio
If like me you are a XAML lover they is good chance you spend most of your time writing your XAML by hand in Visual Studio. From the day I started working in XAML I rarely use the Visual Studio...
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WinRT: introducing the AppBarHint control
Windows 8.1 is has a lot of improvements in the OS, for XAML and HTML developers but also changes some paradigms introduced with the release of Windows 8. One of them is to make more obvious UI...
View ArticleSlides from my “Getting started with WP8 development” talk
Last month I had the chance to give a talk during Soft-Shake, a 2 days conference in Geneva Switzerland. I uploaded the slides on SlideShare: Build your wp8 app today from jalpf Link is...
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I need your help to launch ReStory!
This is a off topic post about an incredible journey that started a week ago for me… I need your help by giving a vote that matters a lot for my future. I participated in a Startup Week-End in...
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2013++
First of all I wish you a happy new year ! The new year is usually the time we like to take a step back and look at what happened the last few months. So I’m following this approach too and here is...
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Building 2Day for Windows 8: under the hood
In this (long) post, I share some of the techniques I used to build 2Day for Windows 8 using C# and XAML. 2Day is a powerful todo-list app with synchronization capabilities. If you haven’t given it a...
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An history of 11 years of XAML stacks
Today I’m releasing something I’m quite excited about… I call it the XAML timeline ! It’s an interactive history of 11 years of XAML development at Microsoft, from a .Net developer point of view (me!)....
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MVP 2014 – 2015
I’m definitively late on blogging for the last few months… but I’m happy to share that I was just awarded Microsoft MVP another year Another great news for me is that Microsoft decided to merge 2...
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