Category Archives: Smartphone OS

Yesterday I  experimented the following error displaying some pushpins on a map using the great Joost library: InnerException: “Value does not fall within the expected range.” Strack trace: Because I received the coordinates walues from REST service that I converted … Continua a leggere →

The Microsoft Bot Framework is now in preview and it seems very interesting: it is what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail, … Continua a leggere →

Snippets are very useful to speed up the code writing. Template10 have defined a lot of them specific for writing code using that template. In the following there are the simple steps you have to do to install them in … Continua a leggere →

In this ongoing post, I will add more and more tips and useful links to better understand some topics related to C# … Value Types vs Reference Types Casting: “as ClassName” vs (ClassName) Enum Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await Navigation … Continua a leggere →

If you navigate in the HERE site, you can read: “If you have a smartphone with Windows 10: In the last few months, we made the HERE apps compatible with Windows 10 by using a workaround that will no longer … Continua a leggere →

The Store app is an Universal App … but it has a quite strange interface behavior! You surely know that Universal Apps can change completely the user interface according mainly to the dimension of the screen but even possibly to the … Continua a leggere →

Every time you do a build, by default NuGet check and possibly download missing packages. As stated in the output windows when making a build, if you want “To prevent NuGet from restoring packages during build, open the Visual Studio … Continua a leggere →

I did an update of Visual Studio 2015 and, as usual, at the end it asked for a reboot to complete the installation. However I was doing something else and I did not agree for an immediate reboot: that is quite … Continua a leggere →

It may happen that downloading a package from GitHub (e.g. WpWinNl.MapBindingDemo) after compiling the solution, the dependences are resolved but still remains an error like “Unable to locate ‘C:\…\Visual Studio 2016\Projects\MyProject\.nuget\nuget.exe“. What to do? A simple solution is to download … Continua a leggere →

P.S.  7/2/2016 –  Finally web whatsapp supports also Edge, … without doing the following workaround! Therefore now it is sufficient to open a new tab and write the https://web.whatsapp.com URL. For further information see this post. ____________ I  must admit … Continua a leggere →

In the last few months, Microsoft released several tools that allow to create apps without coding, even for business and for any device (e.g. Windows 8 and Windows 10 devices, iPhone and iPad; support for Android devices will be available … Continua a leggere →

Do you have suggestions for Windows 10 / Windows 10 Mobile new features (or do you want to vote for some already inserted)? Go to Windows Community forums: Windows Feature Suggestions … future developments will take care of this end user requests!! … Continua a leggere →

Per un anno (fino al 29 luglio 2016) l’aggiornamento (da Windows 7 in poi) sarà gratuito e le nuove funzionalità introdotte sono tali che dovrebbero indurre anche i più restii ad effettuare per tempo tale upgrade. ============================================================= PS: anche se ufficialmente … Continua a leggere →

Sometime, may be too often, you search in the new Windows Store an app (called in some way or that could do a feature) and you find some that are fake / spam / not appropriate. This is a problem common … Continua a leggere →