Nothing but .NET
Tips, tricks, and lessons learned from building .NET, Windows 8, Azure, and Windows Phone solutions and working with other Microsoft products
Sending e-mail from ASP.NET MVC hosted on Azure with a GoDaddy.com domain address
I have a website built with ASP.NET MVC and EntityFramework which is hosted on Microsoft Azure. The...
Author: Mohammed Adenwala Date: 06/28/2016
A deep-dive on Continuum for Windows 10 Mobile: Development best practices and ins-and-outs
Introduction With Continuum for phone on Windows 10 Mobile, your phone can power an external screen...
Author: madenwal Date: 12/17/2015
Generating your tile/icon image assets for Windows 10 UWP using Photoshop Actions
UPDATE: The Windows design team has made this template and the export actions into an official...
Author: madenwal Date: 11/24/2015
Windows 10 UAP app throws System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException error when accessing strings from a RESX
If you try to access a string from a RESX file embedded in your Windows 10 UWP application or...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/08/2015
How to create a hamburger menu control for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone
You've probably seen many apps on iOS and Android that have a "hamburger menu" layout control for...
Author: madenwal Date: 03/25/2015
How to generate and manage app visual assets for Windows AND Windows Phone with ease using Photoshop actions
UPDATE: If you're looking for Photoshop templates for Windows 10, see my newer post:...
Author: madenwal Date: 02/11/2015
How to embed a WebBrowser control inside a Pivot Item in Windows Phone
I had an application that required a WebBrowser control within one of the PivotItem instances in a...
Author: madenwal Date: 02/11/2015
How to link style/resource dictionaries located in different assemblies in WinRT and SilverLight
If you're architecting a modern application for Windows or Windows Phone for reuse or even for...
Author: madenwal Date: 02/09/2015
Windows 8.1 WACK Failure: The contrast ratio of the background color and foreground text color is 1. This ratio should be greater than or equal to 1.5
I was trying to submit a new application of mine to the Windows 8 Store and I failed a package...
Author: madenwal Date: 01/26/2015
Windows Phone screen zooms in unexpectedly...
I found that my Windows Phone device occasionally would zoom into a state like this: For the longest...
Author: madenwal Date: 01/16/2015
Windows 8/8.1 Performance Tuning Resources
This is going to be a living blog post, but I plan to share some of the best resources on Windows 8...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/01/2014
Determine OS versions and which GDR updates are installed on WP8 and WP7
In Windows Phone development, you'll often need to know at run-time exactly which version of Windows...
Author: madenwal Date: 10/09/2013
Reclaim "other" storage space in WP8
If your device seems to be low on space, it's possible that the "other" category is the culprit. Try...
Author: madenwal Date: 07/26/2013
Why do I have multiple PayPal accounts in my WP8 Wallet?
If you're like me and launched Wallet on your new Windows Phone 8 account and saw multiple PayPal...
Author: madenwal Date: 11/05/2012
Uploading XAPs on Windows Phone DEV CENTER results in error "Failed to Invoke: savePageData"
Last week I could not upload any XAP files to Windows Phone Dev Center. As soon as I would select...
Author: madenwal Date: 10/21/2012
Open ISO files with File Explorer in Windows 8 natively
Just discovered that you can double-click an ISO file in Windows 8 and it'll attach itself like a...
Author: madenwal Date: 08/16/2012
Enable the Windows 8 delete file confirmation dialog
Updated: Same instructions for Windows 10 You may find that in Windows 8 / Windows 10, when you...
Author: madenwal Date: 08/08/2012
Windows Phone Performance Tuning Resources
Just thought I would share my list of resources that have helped me performance tune Windows Phone...
Author: madenwal Date: 02/22/2012
Windows Phone App Submission error: The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (2003)
The Windows Phone Marketplace has a big update yesterday. I tried submitting an update for one of my...
Author: madenwal Date: 07/19/2011
CRM Service Exception: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies
I received the below error from a CRM WCF service that I created. After some investigating, I found...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/21/2011
Retrieving QueryString paramaters in a CRM Plug-In
Retrieving QueryString parameters inside of a CRM plug-in was easier than I thought, but with just...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/15/2011
Windows Phone 7 MAC address has arrived!
If you're looking for your MAC address for your Windows Phone 7, you'll need the March 2011 (NoDo)...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/02/2011
Preventing TiltEffect on a WP7 ListBox item
I had some trouble disabling the TiltEffect on items inside a particular WP7 ListBox in my...
Author: madenwal Date: 03/29/2011
CRM 2011 SDK - System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Entity' to type...
This is the same issue as the one mentioned in my blog from a few days ago (Error while using the...
Author: madenwal Date: 03/29/2011
Creating a .NET WCF 4.0 JSON Service
I had a lot of trouble getting configuring a .NET 4.0 WCF service which could be called from an HTML...
Author: madenwal Date: 03/22/2011
CRM 2011 SDK - Error while using the Create Method - System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null
If you're using the CRM 2011 SDK with a generated proxy, you may encounter an ArgumentNullException...
Author: madenwal Date: 03/22/2011
Stop Microsoft Lync contacts from syncing to your Windows Phone
I've noticed that all my Microsoft Lync (previously OCS) contacts show up in my Windows Phone People...
Author: madenwal Date: 02/25/2011
How to copy or replace DLLs from your GAC
If you want to actually browse DLLs in your GAC at C:\Windows\assembly\ follow the instructions...
Author: madenwal Date: 12/10/2010
Remove unwanted Facebook contacts from your Windows Phone 7
I just got my Windows Phone 7 and added my Outlook, Windows Live, and Facebook accounts to the...
Author: madenwal Date: 11/26/2010
Windows Vista: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?
Annoyed with always getting that message? I was. If you want to get rid of that prompt, click on...
Author: madenwal Date: 11/18/2006
Problem adding a virtual machine in Virtual Server 2005
If you try to remove a virtual machine from your master list and then attempt to re-add it, you will...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/29/2006
GREAT Windows Media Player Tip: Play Speed -> Fast!
I wanted to share a GREAT tip that I got from someone when I first started here at Microsoft two...
Author: madenwal Date: 04/28/2006
Visual Studio 2005 - Error opening Visual Studio solution file: Make sure the application for the project type () is installed.
I was having trouble opening a web services solution. I kept getting the following error:...
Author: madenwal Date: 03/10/2006