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Start Screen with Charms Bar Over there on the right side of the screen is the Charms Bar. It is an oddity to me because it has system-centric information as well as app-centric information. Compare that to the application bar, a feature that many but not all apps…
Continue readingPopulation Growth in Sports I went on a mountain bike ride yesterday. I rode up Tunnel Creek Road, in Incline Village, up to the Flume Trail. The last time I was on this road was more than fifteen years ago. It was brutal. When I did this ride…
Continue readingForm Test Page The Windows Phone 8 app that I have been working on for a while now has forms with required fields. Only a subset of fields are required, but there are no marking to indicate this. In the image above, you can see a test…
Continue readingThe Windows Phone supports two types of controls that a user would think of as panoramas. One is called, of all things, a Panorama. The other is not so obviously called a Pivot control. Panorama I am borrowing some images to describe the Panorama control first. Anyone who…
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