How to Use jQuery in Windows Store App ?
jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript library and it can be used when building the Windows Store App as well. How to Add jQuery to a Windows Store Project ? You can add jQuery to a Windows Sto...
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #14 – Text Trimming for TextBlock Element.
The Text Trimming described how a text can be trimmed when it exceeds the width of the current text block . In Windows Phone 8.1 , the TextBlock has the property TextTrimming that allows the develope...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #13 – How to Change the Start Page of the App ?
When you create a Windows Phone 8.1 app in Visual Studio 2013 , the MainPage.xaml is set as the default start page of the app . Sometimes , you might want to change the start page of the Windows Phon...
FSIAnyCPU Feature in Visual Studio 2013
In one of my previous blog post , i shared information about the FSharp Interactive features for F# Developers in Visual Studio 2013. The FSI in Visual Studio 2013 has a features called FSIAnyCPU whi...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #12 – How to Add a Application Bar in Windows Phone 8.1 App ?
If you are looking for a way to add Application Bar in your Windows Phone 8.1 App (Windows Runtime App) , you can use the BottomAppBar to add App Bar. Add the Command Bar under the BottomAppBar and t...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #11 – How to Send SMS in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML App ?
In the Windows Phone 8.0 and earlier version , the developers could utilize the SMSComposeTask to send SMS from the Windows Phone App. If you are targeting the Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight model , t...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #10 – Launch Rate and Review Page from App
If you want to allow the user to launch the Windows Phone Store and display the rate and review page for the current app , you can use the Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync method by passing the...
Using F# Interactive in Visual Studio 2013
If you want to try out some simple F# programs in Visual Studio , you can use the F# Interactive Window which is shipped with F#. This feature lets the developers to test small and simple F# code sn...
Indentation as Program scope in F#
C# uses the flower bracket “{” and “}” to identify the block or scope of the function or program . F# is quite different in the sense that it uses the indentation or tab to id...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #9 – Set Supported Orientations in WP 8.1
In Windows Phone 8.1 App , if you want to set the supported orientations , you can set it in the Package.appxmanifest . In the previous version of Windows Phone (Windows Phone 8) , you can set it in ...