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How to be eligible to receive MSDN Ultimate, Office and Azure for FREE 11 Jul 2013 | 07:57 am
The title seems a bit unreal, but it is totally true and legit. Please read on. Last year, I attended the International Startup Festival in Montreal. I met the Canadian Microsoft team who promote the...
App Spotlights for Windows Phone 10 Apr 2013 | 04:57 pm
I’m pleased to announce the availability of App Spotlights. As a Windows Phone developer, I can tell you that one of the best gifts a developer can receive is when one of his apps is in the spotlight....
My Surface Pro Review: A Developer’s Perspective 10 Feb 2013 | 09:04 am
Before I start this review, I would like to thank my employer, Mirego, for offering me a trade-in of my Surface RT for a Surface Pro! As a technology lover, it was impossible to say no. This week, I c...
My experience with Ads in my Windows Phone apps 12 Jan 2013 | 09:21 am
After some thought, I decided to share my experience with ads and to provide the revenue that my apps provided. If my details help you, then I’ll be happy. The two apps that generates the most revenue...
Review of Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML 30 Dec 2012 | 08:41 am
During the holiday season, I received the Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML by Jeremy Likness. Holidays are the perfect time to read books! Before starting the book, I was curious to know if it...
How to avoid application settings corruption when a background agent is used 25 Nov 2012 | 10:10 pm
LIke most of my applications, I used to save all my application settings in the IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings. It seems like a logical good choice. In my last application, I added a Back...
XAML coding convention 24 Nov 2012 | 07:31 am
Over the past year, I have built my own coding conventions for C#. I also always manage to convince my colleagues to follow my coding convention if they don’t already have one. I’m a real freak about ...
Canadian Developer Connection: Now available in the Windows Store 9 Nov 2012 | 06:34 am
For the past few months, I have been working on my first Windows Store app for Windows 8 called Canadian Developer Connection. Since yesterday, my application is now available in the Windows Store. Th...
BUILD 2012: A dream came true! 5 Nov 2012 | 09:32 am
A big thanks to my employer, Mirego, for letting me go to BUILD, and for paying for it too! My BUILD journey started in August, on the day the tickets went on sale. I even had two computers all set up...
How to use the ButtonImage control that supports the Pressed and IsEnabled states 28 Sep 2012 | 07:30 am
Introduction There is a lot of examples in the Windows Phone community about creating a button with an image only. We can achieve this result with the following code: The problem with the previous co...
