17. October 2011 - So if you haven’t heard, NopCommerce is great open source project for e-commerce type sites. The latest version is rewritten in ASP.NET MVC, so you don’t need to bother with WebForms anymore. I thought, that since it’s codebase was changed from 1.9 version it should also work very easily on Azure platform. But unfortunately that is not the case. If you take a close look at how nopCommerce works, you’ll see, that it needs write permissions for configuring connection string (actually it is stored in...
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17. August 2011 - This weekend I had some spare time and following by a joke from a friend, I’ve made a very simple (and also very stupid) Windows Phone called “ Easy Button ”. It was also the first app I’ve published with my own AppHub account (previous ones – Mobitel Monitor and Ljubljana Bus were published in behalf of Microsoft Slovenia for a local competition). With that I do have access to all of the statistics, but more on that subject in a later post. I’ve decided, that I’ll include some ads in my application...
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04. June 2011 - Image by jeffwilcox via Flickr So, you’ve just created an awesome app for Windows Phone and you’re ready to submit it to Marketplace. You’ve fulfill all the Marketplace requirements , all you need to do is to register on AppHub portal to actually submit your super-cool app. But … oh wait, you live in a “not-supported” country? Microsoft initially said: “Sorry folks, no go.” After a lot of “negative response” from community, Microsoft changed its viewpoint and now they are “working on more and more...
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05. May 2011 - Recently I needed to implement sharing capabilities for Facebook , Twitter and email in one Windows Phone app I’m currently working on. Just for fun I also added sharing through SMS messaging. We are all aware of default sharing page, which is included in Pictures hub and allows you to share to various networks and applications, so I wanted to recreate this look also in my app (you can download it on my SkyDrive ): Sharing a link through email is easy...
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02. May 2011 - Ok, so here’s my second app for Windows Phone – Ljubljana Bus (remember the first one – Mobitel Monitor ?) Since I live in Ljubljana and I’m pretty frequent user of public transportation I wanted to have an app, where I’ll have all the info I need to travel around. The main idea was, that I can check arrival time of a bus when I’m still at home/office/restaurant/etc. And since LPP (company responsible for public transportation in Ljubljana) does provide a website...
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