Today I want to show how to get the same feel for your Windows Phone apps on start up that the newly released Bing apps (Finance, Maps, Food & Drink, Sports and News). Since Microsoft started releasing Windows Phone versions … Continue reading

Continuous Location tracking on Windows Phone 8 Part 2: Background
Mondays article talked about how to use the new Location API on Windows Phone 8. In it, I did not talk about background tracking. Today I will modify the prior solution to do that and to log events to the … Continue reading

Continuous Location tracking on Windows Phone 8
While digging through the Windows Phone 8 SDK docs, I noticed that the Location services seem to have changed to include an option for tracking the handsets location on a continuous basis. It is marked in the docs as new … Continue reading

Using text to speech on Windows Phone 8
Ever since the Windows Phone 8 SDK leaked, I have been digging through the documentation looking for interesting additions to the upcoming release. After spending a couple of evenings trying to get the Wallet to work in the emulator using … Continue reading