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In this post I will provide few example which shows how to exchange messages between devices and service. In all examples, we will assume that service is implemented in .NET for Windows System32 (today known as desktop) and device is implemented in .NET for Windows RT. Please note that there are many...
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When deploying your app it can happen that you want to publish the update of the app, but certification/publishing fails due the length of the name of some assembly. This happened to as after we implemented support for notification hubs. That means we added assembly Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Messaging...
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Right now, there are 3 ways to send notifications to Windows Phone. 1. Native Notification by using MPNS ( Microsoft Push Notification Service , team blog ) 2. Windows Azure Mobile Services 3. Windows Azure notification hubs . In this post I will describe short sample, which holds most explanation in...
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When working with multiple languages in Windows Store Apps you might be surprised if your 100% by Windows Application Certification Kit (WACK) certified application cannot be published to the store. The application work and it is successfully validated by WACK. Unfortunately when trying to publish...
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If you read this post, you are probably frustrated and have been redirected by some search machine:) The error you have sounds like: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) If you are running in debugger, you will even get more information: ...
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When working with async you will probable immediately notice that async programming is much easier then before. Unfortunately after a while you might notice, that that some things like ExecptionHandling are night mare now. In fact “ difficult things became easier, but easy things evaluated to more complicated...
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Did you know? Swiping down an app doesn’t cause the process to fully terminate anymore in Windows 8.1? It solely disappears from the left side list of recently used apps. In Windows 8 users seem to be confused about the semantic of close gesture “swipe down”. Most users thought by this...
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If you are enterprise developer, you are probably excited with many, many nice and powerful features. But sometimes you might be disappointed, because tablets and related devices have not hardware and software power of common Windows operative system. On of such missing things sounds to be authentication...
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As probably known the cloud messaging platform in Windows Azure is based on Service Bus technology. Few months ago Microsoft has published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 which provided the same API for Windows RT. Unfortunately this library has been deprecated. The new WinRT library for Service...
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When working with SMTP client, you might get following error: The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated There are lot of answers out there related this error, because it can be caused by many different...
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When working with Service Bus, it is very useful to make a usage of Service Bus Connection String to create SB-entities. For example, following line of code can be used to create the QueueClient instance which can be used to send and receive messages: var client = QueueClient.CreateFromConnectionString...
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The first Cumulative Update for Workflow Manager and Service Bus or formally known SharePoint workflow is online. which actually includes Suspend/Resume of instances support. (It will also be available via WebPI soon). WF Manager : KB article (KB2799754): here Download page: here Service Bus:...
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Few months ago I tought, I finally survived transition of ASP.NET, WebApi and Co. form VS20010 to VS2012. This was a hard time. Imaging migration of 50 projects in one solution by referencing various version of System.Net.Http, NuGet etc., etc. This post should archive a few workarounds which might help...
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As I first time heard about NuPack I was exited, because I can finally hold all my assemblies together. After rename and release of NewGet (pronounced) NuGet I’ve got a bit disappointed. In the real world project to all NuGet goodness I run into more and more issues. Anyhow, here is one of them: error...
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When working with XAML in general, like with Workflow or even WPF you might get following error: Cannot create unknown type '{clr-namespace:YOURNAMESPACE}YOURCONTROL'.' Line number '' and line position ''. This error will occurred if the XAML file is loaded from external location...