October 2013

After my last post, I decided to write a WordPress plug-in that would upload text to a file and generate a script tag to use to reference that file in posts. This was just thrown together in an evening and most of the work was in learning how…

I want to store source code for blog posts within their own files. This will allow a user to download the file instead of trying to copy/paste the formatted code from within the blog post. Although I do exclude line numbers from the code, I still replace >,…

Microsoft is making my life hell at the moment. Every official looking link that I found to get the remote debugging monitor for my Surface RT pointed me to a page with a Visual Studio 3013 toolset. WTF? There is no link to download a VS 2012 remote…

The Windows Store ScrollViewer XAML has a bug. It causes a visual error on the screen when the ScrollViewer has no scroll bars. I discovered this because I have a main page in my app that uses the Visual Studio provided framework for a tiled app. The main…

I have a Windows Store app written in C# that has some popups. These are Popup objects that work like modal dialog boxes. Mine are displayed as a band across the middle of the screen. The standard built-in on-screen keyboard (OSK) handling does not alter the position of…

In a C# Windows Store app that I am writing, I let the user tap a button and then I start a background task to do a bunch of work. While this working is being done, the user can see the results on-screen as they become available. But…