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Controlling the StatusBar (SystemTray) in a Universal App
One of the problems of using Universal Apps is that some components only exist in one platform and not in another. One such example is the StatusBar (formally known as SystemTray) for Windows Phone...
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Easy theming with Windows Phone
Easy theming with Windows Phone Windows Phone has the concept of Dark and Light themes. I really like this idea as I typically have my phone in Dark theme and switch to Light when in bright sunshine....
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The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to connect to the Windows Phone...
Today I fired up Visual Studio to create a Windows Phone application, just like I had done the past couple of days, only to be faced with; [Window Title]Windows Phone Emulator [Content]The Windows...
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What is stored on the Windows Phone back stack?
Recently I was in a conversation about memory usage on the Windows Phone. The conversation turned to the Phone back stack and the question became, “what is stored on the back stack?” So I created a...
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Using a resource for an unsupported culture in Windows Phone
I was talking to a fellow dev about why the Resource Manager cannot support languages that the phone platform itself does not support. However, I thought that there probably would be a workaround…and...
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