30 Years of Hello, World
I recently took a vacation the same week as the 4th of July and had lots of time to reflect upon my career to date. It was a little shocking […]
TFS Build Numbers & File Version Now with Hosted TFS Build Support
Over the years I’ve been posting on the blog here at Wintellect a set of MSBuild tasks that make it easy to get the TFS Build number during a build […]
MVVM and Accessing the UI Thread in Windows Store Apps
Any developer who has worked with MVVM in WPF, Silverlight, or Windows Store apps has likely run into the issue of executing an action on the UI thread. This most […]
Automatically Load the Right SOS for the Minidump
Don’t you just love the following error message when trying to debug a minidump with SOS and WinDBG? The version of SOS does not match the version of CLR you […]
Simple Validation with MVVM for Windows Store Apps
Developers who are writing Windows Store apps using C# and XAML might find some of the support for Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) lacking. Both WPF and Silverlight provided specific interfaces that enabled […]
Introducing WintellectNOW
Last week, we introduced WintellectNOW, a new on-demand learning service designed to make the same training content that we provide to Microsoft and other large customers available anywhere, any time. […]
Single Sign On with OAuth in Windows Store Apps
Various providers often provide documentation and even SDKs that make it easier to connect with and authenticate to their service. The problem is that most scenarios assume a web-based application […]
Visual Studio vs. the PowerShell Command Line
Numerous times in the last month I’ve been working with different teams and when I whip out my PowerShell window and start doing all the magic, especially with Visual Studio […]
Proceed with Caution – Windows Phone 8 App Lifecycle Events vs Async Methods
“We are on the path to Windows and Windows Phone Convergence” (//Build 2012 – How to Leverage your Code Across WP8 and Win8, Slide 6) I often hear people saying […]