Month: May 2013

If you’ve ever built a Windows Phone 7 or Windows Phone 8 application, you may have found that your app looks great when building it in Visual Studio. However, as soon as you attempt to change the theme of the application, the design would not appear correct. One resource on MSDN that you may find useful is the article titled Theme Resources for Windows Phone. This article shows several tables that explain the built-in resource names for themes. Besides setting a brush or color within your application to one of the resource values, you may be interested in knowing the … Continue reading Update your Windows Phone App to Support Theme Changes

As the years go by, more and more research, information, and documents can be found online. However, several business verticals still use CDs and DVDs to access research content, backup documents, and share files. In every position that I’ve ever held, I have been asked by someone to locate a disk. I had an old WMI script that would grab the information, place it in a text file on a machine, and notify me via a net message that the file was ready. This was great and did the job, but I wanted to see how I can do the … Continue reading Using PowerShell to Obtain CD/DVD Disk Information

So today is the big day where my wife is being induced with our fourth child. Given the past, today’s experience should last between 6-10 hours. Knowing I’ll be hearing monitors in the background, I figured I should do some work. Since I haven’t spent the time to complete an app for Windows Phone yet I figured I would challenge myself. I’ll be live blogging this experience today and am up against mother nature. My goal is to see what comes first: my new baby boy or my new Windows Phone app. Wish me luck (on both fronts)! 7am   It’s … Continue reading What came first? The baby or the app

On May 3rd, Wrox Press released Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB. I co-authored this book with two Microsoft employees (Pranav Rastogi and Scott Hanselman)as well as two Microsoft MVPs (Christian Wenz and Todd Miranda). The book is packed with the most current information about ASP.NET 4.5. It is also the only book I am aware of that explains One ASP.NET. The foreword for this book is written by Scott Hunter of the ASP.NET team. There are ten parts, 35 chapters, 7 appendixes, and nearly 1500 pages in this book. Here’s the table of contents for the book: Part … Continue reading Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB