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How to troubleshoot Windows Azure Mobile Services
Undoubtedly when developing application using Windows Azure Mobile Services you will get unexpected results. This guide will help you isolate and troubleshoot the most common errors that you will...
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Move Your Client Logic to the Server - Windows Azure Mobile Services
The Client Libraries for Windows Azure Mobile Services are powerful and allow you to embed logic within your client application. The quickstart and sample applications give you a great overview on how...
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Using Virtual Tables for Different Views – Windows Azure Mobile Services
Building on my last post (Move Your Client Logic to the Server - Windows Azure Mobile Services) I will show you how to create a Virtual (or dummy) table to give you a different view of your TodoItem...
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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...
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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...
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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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Using Parameters with Tables for Different Views – Windows Azure Mobile Services
In my two previous posts I discussed how to move your table filter logic server side, and how to use Virtual tables to get different views of data. In this blog post I will show you how to pass...
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Use PasswordVault to Store Your Tokens–Windows Azure Mobile Services
There was no end to end sample of how you might use the PasswordVault to store your JWT used for user authentication in Mobile Services. I created this class to be used with your Windows Store...
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Attaching to a Windows Azure Mobile Services database in ASP.NET
The preferred way to talk to the database you are using for you Windows Azure Mobile Services is through the REST APIs and by using the Clients we supply for you. The reason you should go through the...
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How To: Popup a XAML WebView UI async and wait for results
I needed to popup a WebView and wait on an event before continuing. There really was no illustration on how to do this so here you all go!In my scenario I wanted to Navigate to a Uri to do some forms...
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