Windows Phone Archives - Cliff Simpkins

Looking for #WPDev opinions

Post Update: I removed survey links because it closed In October, I’m interested in getting thoughts and opinions from the Windows platform development community in my ~annual pulse of the Windows…

cliff.simpkins 2 October, 2014

Windows Phone

SQLite on WP – DB schema management

As I started working with SQLite as a place to store my data, I began thinking about my app’s changing data scheme and I wondered: ‘how do I handle change…

cliff.simpkins 15 September, 2014

Windows Phone

SQLite on WP–FileNotFoundException and how to deal with it

While I was reinstalling my laptop this week, I ran into some friction getting my Brick Manager development environment going again. My issue turned out to be pretty simple, and…

cliff.simpkins 5 September, 2014

Windows Phone

WPDev: Talking to XML web services

This blog post starts to cover a number of interesting Windows platform development challenges that I ran into as I built out my Brick Manager app. While the code was…

cliff.simpkins 6 July, 2014

Windows Phone

Socializing your app in Windows Phone 8.1

This is a blog post that has been sitting on my laptop, all written and ready for posting, for just about two months now. I worked on the post when…

cliff.simpkins 2 July, 2014

Windows Phone

Projecting your Windows Phone screen to a PC

One of the common questions I’ve been getting over the past week from folks has been how to take advantage of this semi-obscure ‘Project my Screen’ entry that was added…

cliff.simpkins 18 April, 2014

Windows Phone

Talking on designing apps for success

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting AppCampus in Helsinki. While there, I spent time with each of the teams in residence reviewing their apps and their app strategy, and I…

cliff.simpkins 11 September, 2013

Windows Phone

Windows Phone Dev Unlock for All

A couple weeks ago, as part of a fairly sizable ‘August update’ blog post, the Windows Phone team announced that they expanded developer unlocks to enable hobbyist developers to unlock their…

cliff.simpkins 20 August, 2013

Windows Phone

Running the Windows Phone Emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview

Today is an exciting day at Build – the Windows 8.1 Preview is available for download! If you’re like me, you can’t wait to update your machine to take advantage of everything…

cliff.simpkins 26 June, 2013