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Providing technical information from a slight slanted standpoint.
By Peter Henry on Friday, February 03, 2012 10:33 PM

imageDo you keep your keyboard clean with Lysol Wipes?  After you go back to work, do you find all your window locations reset?  I can help you!

By Peter Henry on Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:22 PM

Are you using the NuGet Visual Studio Extension and getting errors when you try to update it?  I think I can help you!image

By Peter Henry on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:18 PM

ODNCThe ODNC is doing another WP7 study group starting in March, but first, there’s an information session Feb 14th to help you figure out if this is for you!

By Peter Henry on Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:27 PM

imageIf you’re new to TFS/Team Explorer and you’re getting sick’n’tired of having to enter in your username password, try this solution out!

By Peter Henry on Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:52 PM

Ottawa IT CampThis is a call for any and all technical speakers in the Ottawa/National Capital area interested in presenting at the upcoming Ottawa IT Camp 2012!

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:00 PM

Ottawa IT CampOttawa IT Camp, the best and FREE technical conference announced their dates for their 5th year anniversary!

By Peter Henry on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:33 PM

imageImage banding is not pretty, especially on YOUR brand new and cool app!  So why let it happen?  I show you an EASY fix!

By Peter Henry on Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:24 PM

imageOne cool feature in Visual Studio is to setup an Assembly Version with an asterisk, but if you use this, you’ll need to read on!  It goes MIA if you’re not careful!

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:24 PM

imageAre you trying to make your items in your ListBox stretch out to the maximum width of your container?  And it’s JUST NOT WORKING for you?  I have two things you might try (and hopefully one will work).

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, November 02, 2011 8:45 PM

DevTeachLogoToday I was lucky enough to participate in DevTeach’s Silverlight Pre-Con, and MAN was it GREAT!  Read on for a summary!

By Peter Henry on Monday, October 31, 2011 12:00 AM

imageI just released my latest WP7 app for an upcoming conference in Ottawa!  Read on for more details.

By Peter Henry on Friday, October 28, 2011 7:54 PM

imageAre you making a WP7 application?  COOL!  Want to change the background, read on for the quick'n'dirty for how!

By Peter Henry on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:12 PM

ScreenCapOfLEDFlashlightThere are a lot of flashlight apps out there for all of the smartphones.  In fact, IMHO, it’s the new Hello World application!  But why is it SO hard to use the LED on the WP7?  Read on for why.

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:14 PM

TortoiseDid you get an email recently from TortoiseSVN telling you about the great new 1.7 version?  If you like your icon overlays and using Win 7 x64, you might want to stick with 1.6.16.

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:07 PM

I've lived with Mango for a grand total of 24h, now that?  Read on for my first impressions!

By Peter Henry on Monday, October 03, 2011 7:29 PM

Laurent DuveauIf you are going to learn Silverlight, wouldn't it make sense to learn it from the best?  Read on for a great upcoming opportunity at DevTeach in Ottawa!

By Peter Henry on Thursday, September 08, 2011 7:10 PM

DevTeachOtt2011125x125DevTeach, one of the best conferences going, is coming to Ottawa.  Read on for more details (warning LOTS of CAPS ahead!).

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:38 PM

miFlashlightmiFlashlight was one of the first flashlight apps released on the WP7, tonight I just updated it to version 2.0.  The updating process has been tweaked a bit, read on for my thoughts.

By Peter Henry on Sunday, June 05, 2011 8:30 PM

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Two weeks ago I bought a screen protector, read about my review.

 

By Peter Henry on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:05 PM

Do you have a WP7 app that talks to a server?  Are you trying to figure out a unique way to identify your users?  Well, besides asking them I mean (which may NOT be so unique)?image  I think I can help you out.

     
  
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