For some odd reason my internet connection ceased to work a few days ago. A bunch of things including system restore didn’t help. Eventually I found a link that suggested switching on the “Enable Enhanced Security Mode” in IE 10. Viola! That fixed the problem
Now the question is: What did M$ do that requires this to be turned on just to get internet access?!
… just a quick heads up if you get an error that looks something like this when creating a pinned tile for windows phone:
”The serialized property BackContent is too long
at Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ShellTileData.SerializeToToken(IToken token)
at Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ShellTile.Create(Uri navigationUri, ShellTileData initialData)”
The issue is that the BackContent property is set to a string with more than 500 characters.
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- please consider posting a review for Kwik List on the marketplace in return.
Kwik List: The simplest, easiest and quickest way to remember things on your windows phone.
Kwik List allows you to make tasks and notes, tag them as lists and share them in a simple easy way on your windows phone.
Features:
- Maintain List Items
- Tag List Items
- Set Reminders
- Save Items as tasks or notes
- View Calendar Entries
- Email contacts from calendar entries
- Email or Text tag list or individual items
- Pin item or tag list to the phone menu
- Live Tile Updates
- Filter list items you want to see
- Add multiple items at once via KwikList
- Dark and Light Theme support
- Create custom theme colors
A few days ago my emulator decided it wasn’t going to render colors properly:
… this is what it should look like:
… turns out that the issue was the 3D stereoscopic setting on my NVidia display card:
.. I turned is off, and all was well again.
I’ve been doing windows phone development for a while now, and only recently became aware of this setting:
... available in the project properties page of your windows phone project in Visual Studio.
Basically tombstones your app every time it’s deactivated instead of keeping it in memory. It’s turned off by default – but this is typically something you want to keep on while developing.
Happy Coding
I’ve started submitting apps to the windows phone marketplace, and put together a little checklist to go through when submitting.
Here it is in case some other developers out there find it useful: (Orange Italics are just comments on the checklist items)
Any developers out there have extra items – please leave suggestions in the comments….
Happy Coding
