Okay, so what I will do here is explain you how to create your own code snippets to use in Visual Studio 2010 without using any add-ins related to snippet designing. A post on snippet designers / explorers and how you can use them to build better snippets faster will come sometime next week I…
Code snippets are a great way of improving your productivity because they allow you to define pieces of code which you can later on insert into your projects by using a short alias. Although they’ve been in Visual Studio for quite some time not many people know what they are, what exactly they do and…
Those of you wanting to learn more about metro design and how to make your apps look as metro-ish as possible should know that a new series of articles called “31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design” has just started. The first article in the series (about the metro design principles) is already up. A…
Just letting you know that there’s an upcoming webinar on the 4th of this month about Windows Azure and how we can benefit from it in Windows Phone. The webinar will be presented by Samidip Basu and has the following agenda: Date and time: January 4th at 10 AM PDT (check your local time)Registration link:…
Below you have a style which applied to your textbox will make it fully transparent. The difference between applying this style and simply setting the Background property of your textbox to transparent or removing it completely is that the style also removes the focus effect the textbox gets when tapped. I mean no matter what…
Okay, so this happened to me twice already and in both cases it stopped working after installing the Visual Studio 11 Dev Preview. Having already two PCs on which Expression Blend stopped working I decided to do a little bit of digging and fortunately for me it really took just a bit. The crash is…