Author Archives: qmatteoq

Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone toolkit: a winning team – Part 2

Posted on January 21, 2013 by qmatteoq

In the last post we introduced the helpers that are available in the Phone toolkit for the Map control in Windows Phone 8: the map control is much more powerful than the one that is available in Windows Phone 7, … Continue reading →

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Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone toolkit: a winning team – Part 1

Posted on January 17, 2013 by qmatteoq

Maps in Windows Phone 8 is probably the biggest evidence of the great partnership between Nokia and Microsoft: in Windows Phone 8 the maps application installed on every device, even the ones made by other manufacturers, is powered by Nokia … Continue reading →

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Microsoft MVP for the third year!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by qmatteoq

The 2012 has been a strange year. From outside, you could have told that it’s been a bad year: due to a serious health problem (that, luckily, now has been solved) I had to face 2 surgeries and to spend … Continue reading →

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Working with SQLite in Windows Phone 8: a sqlite-net version for mobile

Posted on December 27, 2012 by qmatteoq

With a perfect timing, as soon as I’ve published my previous post about using the chsarp-sqlite engine in combination with sqlite-net, Peter Huene has released a porting of the famous library for Windows Phone 8. What does it mean? That, … Continue reading →

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A workaround to use SQLite in a Windows Phone 8 application

Posted on December 21, 2012 by qmatteoq

Recently I’ve made a post where I’ve tried to explain better the SQL Lite support situation on Windows Phone 8. The core of the post was very simple: the SQLite engine is available for Windows Phone 8, but actually a … Continue reading →

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