Alex Yakhnin's Blog
Development and architecture for Windows Mobile devices. And a few useful tips on the way...
Moving to a New blog
Since I'd left Microsoft a few months ago I am moving to a new host for my blog here:...
Date: 11/26/2013
In the process of updating FeedPoint app.
I am in the middle of updating of my FeedPoint app. Of course I am changing it to work with Feedly...
Date: 08/14/2013
Sync Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
One of the DPE's from France Sebastien Pertus has done an excellent job by porting the SyncFx 4.0 to...
Date: 06/18/2013
Windows 8 store apps designs fiesta.
If you are developing Windows 8 apps you'd be interested in these 50 (!) design templates:...
Date: 01/10/2013
FeedPoint Window 8 Store app is released.
My FeedPoint app for Windows 8 Store has been released. You can get it from here:...
Date: 10/29/2012
Would you like to debug your apps on your Surface RT?
Tim Heuer has got a blog post on how to do it:...
Date: 10/26/2012
Tip: How to avoid missing icon for your app in the store.
When submitting your Windows 8 store app for certification don't forget to update the StoreLogo.png...
Date: 10/25/2012
Charts for your Win8 app.
One of the Microsoft employees Mahmoud Medhat Mousse has created an open source project on...
Date: 09/28/2012
The video of the FeedPoint.
I've made a good progress in my work to port the FeedPoint app for Win8. Functionality wise it...
Date: 09/16/2012
Excellent Win8 Labs for developers.
An excellent labs for developers learning how to develop for Win8 have just been published. It's a...
Date: 09/11/2012
How to restore scroll position of the GridView when navigating back.
When developing WinRT applications which utilize GridView or ListView controls you'd come to the...
Date: 09/09/2012
Unity for WinRT
If you're In need for a DI and IOC container framework, you can get a port of the Unity for WinRT...
Date: 08/22/2012
How to display charms on a top of the WebView.
I've been moving along in my development of the FeedPoint app to WinRT. And as a good citizen of the...
Date: 08/13/2012
More details on how to use SQLite with Windows 8 apps
Tim Heuer has posted a walkthrough on how to install the SQLite runtime package for your WinRT apps...
Date: 08/07/2012
FeedPoint updated for Mango
I've finally published the update for my FeedPoint app for Mango. It's got a few bug fixes as well...
Date: 10/26/2011
ProfileItem control for WP7
In the number of the applications that I'd worked on I had to create a screen to display information...
Date: 10/25/2011
Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7.
Would you like to be able to create your scetchflow designs for the Windows Phone 7? Now you can:...
Date: 06/09/2011
Reactive for Compact Framework.
Have you heard about Reactive (Rx) Framework? If you have been developing for Windows Phone 7,...
Date: 05/04/2011
FeedPoint updated.
I've updated the FeedPoint app with the a few requested features: - The feed list screen now has the...
Date: 04/17/2011
Avis app
A few months ago I spend some time with folks from Avis to help them to get started on the...
Date: 03/08/2011
The recent release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update
Here's some useful information from the documentation team: The recent release of the Windows Phone...
Date: 02/07/2011
Is ANID unique?
When developing the FeedPoint app I needed to encrypt the user credentials in order to store them in...
Date: 01/13/2011
The Best of 2010
It's time for a traditional most popular posts of 2010: Creating a Splash Screen with a progress bar...
Date: 01/04/2011
FeedPoint app has been published.
The feed reader app that I've been talking about in my previous posts has been published on the...
Date: 12/29/2010
MY FEEDER is available for beta testing.
The feed reader app that I described in my previous post is ready to for beta testing. So if you own...
Date: 12/08/2010
(Y)et (A)nother (F)eed (R)eader for WP7
I don't know how about you, but I love the Outlook app on the Windows Phone 7. I like its...
Date: 12/02/2010
Importing Outlook contacts into WP7.
The Windows Phone 7 doesn't sync the contacts from the Outlook without a connection to the Exchachge...
Date: 11/18/2010
Migrate PickerBox and ListPicker to SL Toolkit.
As you already know, the SL Toolkit team has recently released the update to the Silverlight for...
Date: 11/07/2010
OData client source and binaries for WP7.
The OData client library as well as its source are available for download from the codeplex. The...
Date: 10/29/2010
Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7.
The full version of the book: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold is available for...
Date: 10/28/2010
Sync Framework for WP7.
The Sync Framework 4.0 (they jumped over the v3) October CTP is available for download. This...
Date: 10/28/2010
Great performance tips when creating WP7 apps.
Kevin, from Clarity has started a blog post series on the tips when developing WP7 applications....
Date: 10/27/2010
Update to the Progress Dialog.
I've made some refactoring to the Progress Dialog code: First of all I changed the name. Now it's...
Date: 09/24/2010
Creating Progress Dialog for WP7.
When creating Windows Phone 7 applications we'll inevitably encounter the situation when a certain...
Date: 09/20/2010
Windows Phone Training Kit has been updated.
The Windows Phone Training Kit has been updated with the RTM bits. It's gotten even bigger with 5...
Date: 09/17/2010
Customizing Picker Box dialog.
Today I am going to show you how you can customize the Picker Box dialog to display a color picking...
Date: 09/17/2010
Windows Phone Developer Tools RTM'ed!
The WPDT has gone gold and available for download: Windows Phone Developer Tools The tools include...
Date: 09/16/2010
Update to the Picker Box control.
Last time I showed you how you could create the Picker Box functionality in your Windows Phone 7...
Date: 09/14/2010
Implementing Picker Box functionality on WP7.
Last time I talked about the missing Combobox control in the Windows Phone 7 platform and the ways...
Date: 09/12/2010
Creating Scrollable TextBlock for WP7.
There could be many scenarios when you'd need to be able to dipslay a text in your WP7 application...
Date: 09/08/2010
Update to List Picker Control
I've made a few updates to the original code for the List picker control that I described here. When...
Date: 09/01/2010
Creating List Picker for WP7.
For the application that I am working on right now I needed a control that would allow a user to...
Date: 08/30/2010
Creating a Splash Screen with a progress bar for WP7 applications.
If you have seen the demo of the sample application "USGA Shot Tracker" that was created by the UX...
Date: 08/17/2010
Creating Round Image Button for WP7 (part 3)
In my previous post I described a programmatic way to change an icon for the Round Image button (or...
Date: 08/16/2010