SharpCaster C# Chromecast SDK
I have built C# Chromecast SDK that allows you to control chromecast from Windows & Windows Phone applications.
Teemu Tapanila
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Sometimes you need to see what kind of packages your Windows Phone is sending and receiving. This guide is going to show how to do that using tool called Fid...
Most powerful feature of Caliburn Micro is Data Binding. It connects your data logic and view together. It also make sure that whenever value is changed on l...
I love Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern when doing Windows Phone or Windows 8 development. It allows nice separation of UI and code which gives your proje...
Using Facebook single sign-on on Windows Phone 8 applications allows user very easy way to register/login to your application without filling forms. But it s...
I’m running Tapanila.net on Windows Azure Websites and using Wordpress. The biggest reason why I chose Wordpress and why I’m still using it is the amount of ...
During december 2013 I was talking about Windows Azure Mobile Service at CloudBrew. [slideshare id=29928262&doc=7-140112092030-phpapp02]
Windows Azure Storage team has released preview version of the SDK which supports Windows Phone 8
Sometimes you have existing SQL database where you would like to expose some custom queries results
I created Twitter reader for Logitech G15 Keyboard. Logitech G15 is keyboard with nice LCD (160x43 pixels) on it. I created the reader for this using Windows...
You can now easily create twitter reader using Windows Azure Mobile Services features custom API, Git support and NPM (Node Package Manager) support Creat...
Sometimes you might need special permissions right from start on your web application. Default MVC 4 OAuth clients only ask basic permissions and you can’t c...
I have been chosen as Nokia Developer Champion!
Ever wanted to use private repository for GitHub? If you are a student you can get it for free at https://github.com/edu
Many people started using ClearDB MySQL database on Windows Azure before it was offered through Windows Azure Store which enables easy management of the serv...
Generating JSON from your .net classes is very easy. Here’s simple sample how to do it.
I’ll be presenting at TechDays Finland this year. TechDays is the biggest technology conference in Finland with over 1500 attendees and 5 different developer...
This tutorial shows you how to fetch Facebook Friends if you have Facebook accessToken.
I will gather here all of the events where I’m going to participate and where I have participated.
This guide shows you how to use Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (also known as Access Control Service or ACS)
In my previous post I went through the whole process how to create new Windows Azure Mobile Services project and adding the scheduler for fetching tweets bas...
Windows Azure Mobile Services is one the newest things that have been added to Windows Azure. It’s goal is to enable front-end developers easily to create a ...
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MVVM is coding pattern that I like a lot. There’s a lot of people who say it isn’t so good but for Windows Phone and Windows 8 coding I find it perfect. MVVM...
Foursquare has great API and documentation about it. Nice thing is that you don’t need to authenticate to use most of the API. But even then you will need to...
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Untappd is nice service. But what makes it AWESOME is that they started to use OAuth on their API since V4 of API. To get access into Untappd API you need to...
I have been asked kinda often what’s this Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) program that I belong to. I will tell you what the program is to me. Please notice ...
This is one more advanced WCF service than other samples. Because it’s meant to be used by Windows Phone and Windows 8 clients.
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This post is about combining the stuff that I have recently wrote about and creating something nice. Consuming rss feed + Using Windows Azure Tables to store...
Rss is very often used these days for blogs, file lists and stuff like that. It’s very easy to parse & read the rss feed using C# and syndication feed.
Windows Azure Tables is very lightweight opinion to store, retrieve and queue entities. Fast to setup and very easy to use.
When you host your application Azure you don’t get SMTP server or any other mail services. So you got 2 choices. 1) Host your own SMTP server or 2) Use SendG...
Sending text messages from application are expensive and very hard to do? Nope. It’s cheap and even too easy to do. I will show how to do it using Twilio
WCF service that saves and retrieves images is simple to do. But there’s few tricks that you should know.
The reason why I have been writing so much about creating WCF services is that they are very easy to consume and use on Windows Phone application. So I will ...
The reason why I have been writing so much about creating WCF services is that they are very easy to consume and use on Windows 8 application. So I will show...
You can publish WCF Services into Windows Azure Websites. Also you can access all of the Azure resources from there too. You just need to add reference to Az...
So you have started to use Azure Websites more and now you are in state where you need an another MySQL DB? ClearDB is the company that provides the MySQL da...
These days there exists huge amount of API’s. One of the most used formatting is JSON. Consuming JSON with .net is kinda easily but to get full support of in...
Facebook is one of the most fascinating source of data that I can think of. Because it’s always personalized because you can get only your and your friends ...
Team Foundation Server has been something that you mostly see in bigger companies. Because it required a hosted solution to work well. So if you wanted to ha...
Azure Websites is not only limited into running your normal websites. You can also run WCF Services in Azure Websites.
Currently on Azure Websites you get 1 free MySQL database. To install a second Wordpress blog you need to use the same database. That itself is easy but when...
Azure Websites is very easy way to get started very fast on creating a website. Azure subscriptions come with 10 free web sites on shared platform. It’s curr...
Office 365 Developer Site is a SharePoint 2013 Preview site that you can use to create, test, and deploy apps for Office and SharePoint. You can use Visual S...
OAuth is open authentication standard that can be used to give an access to the specific resources of the account. Instead of giving full access in form of u...
Facebook C# SDK was moved from codeplex into github and at the same time they started to distribute the binary libraries with Nuget.
This post continue from the last one: Get all of the friends from Facebook
This post continue from the last one: Facebook get information about the user