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How to take a System.Net trace from Windows Store applications (Developer...
In desktop applications and services we frequently take System.Net traces to diagnose issues using the HttpWebRequest class, HttpListener, sockets, smpt etc… (and now the HttpClient classes). We...
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Where is the Windows 8 Product key?
Here! http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/faq
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Client and Server certificates in Windows Store applications
I answered a couple of certificate questions in the C# Windows Store applications forum that you all may find useful: Provide Client side certificate:...
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How do I figure out what the hex error codes from WinJS.xhr are?
These codes are hex representations of the underlying WinINet error codes. You can use calc to translate the code from hex to decimal and then look up that error here:...
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Windows 8 Video Driver for Inspiron 1521 - Radeon Xpress 1270
I have an old (circa 2007) Dell Inspirion 1521 laptop and wanted to get a better Video driver installed for Windows 8. I found a Vista 64 bit driver on the Dell site that seems to work very well...
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Building Package for the Windows Store–The package contains a Debug framework...
I was helping a customer with a problem they were encountering when trying to build a package for submission to the Windows App Store. The error was:“The package contains a Debug framework reference”....
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Portable Class Library error when building a Windows Phone 8, Windows Store...
I had a customer issue that I thought I would share in the event you run into this issue (it may save you some heartburn).Here is the error:The "Vbc" task failed unexpectedly....
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ATL Library and Windows Store apps
Just a quick post in case you run up against this issue.You can use a subset of ATL Library code in your Windows Store app. You may run into errors with validation when compiling or when running the...
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Windows Store Developer Solutions blog!
Hey all! Check out this blog for more Windows Store and Windows Phone developer issues!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/
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How To: Send and Expire a Tile Notification from Mobile Services Server Scripts
We document how to send push notifications using Mobile Services fairly well. You can use the wns object and push the notification. This is documented here:Get started with push notifications in...
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How To: Decode Event Viewer logs to see What Tile Notification data is
Using Push Notifications for my Windows Store app I needed to debug what message was being received for my Tile Notifications. The payload however was just a hex blob and THAT wasn’t too useful. Here...
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Server Script to Insert Table Items in Windows Azure Mobile Services
I needed a script to load a database with dummy items. I created a Scheduler script with a simple loop to insert 1000 items into my table. I found that when I ran this script it would kick off and...
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How to: Add a ‘Copy Code’ Link to Your Blog Post and Colored Code Blocks
A nice touch to your blog is to have a link to copy the code you have entered. Another great feature is to have your code colored as it would be in Visual Studio. There a couple of ways you can do...
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Configuring Fiddler to be a proxy for Android Emulators in Eclipse
I struggled with getting Fiddler to work with the emulators shipped with Eclipse. Here is a quick reference for you to get Fiddler installed so you can debug HTTP and HTTPS traffic.Install and...
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PhoneGap and Windows Azure Mobile Services error: Login is only supported...
Just a quicky!If you are building a PhoneGap app using the preview bits of Windows Azure Mobile Services and you get this error: “Login is only supported from http:// and https:// URLs. Please host...
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Windows Azure Mobile Services - Accessing a Stored Procedure from a different...
I needed to access a stored procedure in the same database but for a different schema and call it from a server side script in Windows Azure Mobile Services, however I was getting this error: Error...
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Carolina Code Camp links
Hey all… Thanks for attending the Windows Azure Mobile Services Troubleshooting talk!Here are the links I promised:Windows Azure Mobile Services forumWindows Azure Mobile Services Videos, Code Samples...
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Upgrading or Adding References to Mobile Services when there are Multiple...
When you have multiple projects in a solution (for example a Phone and Windows Store app) and you need to add a reference using nuget for each of them there are two methods you can choose from. You...
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Using an existing Azure SQL table with Windows Azure Mobile Services
You can use an existing Azure SQL table with your Mobile Services by moving the table to the schema used by your Mobile Service. This blog post will show you one technique to accomplish this.In this...
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Use Fiddler to Retrieve Data from your Windows Azure Mobile Service
Fiddler is a powerful tool that can help you isolate problems with your Windows Azure Mobile Service. You can quickly eliminate your client code from the equation and start troubleshooting issues with...
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