Category Archives: Windows Phone

Waaaaay oversimplified async/await plumbing

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

[cross posted from my MSDN blog] Often, when someone asks “how does this async await stuff actually work”? There is a lot of hand waving or someone says “just use reflection and look at it” but the real compiled code … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Tip #7: Whole line editing

Posted on May 14, 2015 by

[cross posted from my MSDN blog] OK here is a quick simple one. How do I move or edit entire lines of code? #1 Just don’t select anything. If you don’t have anything selected in your code window then the … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Tip #6: Turn on those line numbers (with Quick Launch)

Posted on April 24, 2015 by

[cross posted from my MSDN blog] Writing code is very often a collaborative process and to discuss something you need to be able to refer to it. The simplest way to refer to a line of code is “look at … Continue reading →

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Speaking Zork

Posted on June 11, 2014 by

How do you update an old-school text adventure game to run on a modern smartphone? You teach it to talk. This is an update to an idea I was playing with a few years ago. I ported a Z-Machine interpreter … Continue reading →

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480px update….

Posted on March 27, 2014 by

I do have an updated version I’ve been running on my personal phone for a while. I just need the time to sit down and polish some things and then I’ll get it released.

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480px v2.2.0.1 available now

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

If your Windows Phone is not set to US English, please go download this update now! There was an issue that many non-US users began to see with recent versions where the image streams would show up empty. This is … Continue reading →

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480px v2.2 is available

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

480px v2.2 is now available for download from the store. This release is a minor update that fixes some UI elements to allow better use of the screen as well as fix some scenarios that would cause a crash when … Continue reading →

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