by GregRJacobs | May 21, 2013 | CSharp, Featured, News, Platforms, Windows
For those that this interests, there will be a new XBOX showing up on the scene around 1:00pm EST. We expect it to be quite fascinating. Looking at it from a developers point of view, we are excited about having a new device/console to develop for. Instead of...
by GregRJacobs | Nov 6, 2012 | C++, CSharp, Featured, Integrated Development Environment, Languages, News, Platforms, Programming, VB, Visual Studio, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8
One word. Beautiful. That is what comes to mind when we start up our IDE after installing the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK with the Express version of Visual Studio 2012. We have yet to delve in and get our hands dirty but we want everyone to see how sexy the new IDE is....
by GregRJacobs | Oct 26, 2012 | ASP.NET, CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, The Web, Visual Studio
This has been troubling me for the past few hours and after some hardcore Googling returning nothing I think this is something that would benefit the developer community. The situation was as follows. I wanted to be able to check if a user had met a certain condition...
by GregRJacobs | Jun 16, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
For those who value security in their applications then this code post is for you. In this application we are designing, we will take the Textbox Text value and encrypt it using the methods provided by C# and Windows Phone 7. We will want to show the user the value...
by GregRJacobs | Apr 11, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
Well, it has finally come down to it, Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Development 201 is finally complete. This usually means that you can take a break, grab a coffee and possibly go outside for some fresh air. Binary Wasteland enjoys bringing you the latest and...
by GregRJacobs | Apr 9, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
In this development tutorial series we are going to cover another new feature given to developers with the “Mango” SDK; Background Agents. Background agents give the ability for an application to run code in the background. This can be a reminder, toast notifications,...