Sometime last year I wrote a post on PDF Viewers and the difficulty in choosing one that was inexpensive, easy to implement and performant. Since that time DevExpress released a PDF Viewer for WinForms, WPF and XAML, so I thought it time to add them into the equation. – – – – – – – … Read more
It’s no secret that I think an application should be built with one set of tools, I’ve been running the 100% DX challenge for 18 months now, so imagine how excited I am about the 13.2 release of the DevExpress controls!!! There are so many new things to be delivered it’s like Christmas came early. … Read more
If you want to deploy an iOS application provisioned under an enterprise license on an IIS box the steps are simple enough: – Create a folder where the .ipa file will be stored such as \inetpub\wwwroot\myApp – Create a manifest (.plist) file, here is an example of what that should look like [code language=”xml”] <?xml … Read more
I remember writing my first mobile app for the Psion Series II, it started my passion for mobile devices. So it was no surprise to the family when I started writing apps for the iPhone all the way back in 2009. There were countless hours spent reading documentation, trying to get things to compile, and … Read more
Join Mark Miller, Rory Becker and myself demonstrating the power of CodeRush Templates, recently described as Snippets on Steroids. In this webinar, we will be taking a deep dive into how templates work, how to create your own templates within minutes as well as answering your questions. As usual it’s a tough start time for … Read more
I’ve written before about the amazing power of CodeRush and why I prefer it over other tools. A lot of people still ask me what its all about, what are the things that keep popping up on their IDE? Well, On October 1, Mark Miller (Chief Scientist IDE Team and all round cool guy!) and … Read more
How cool is it to think that you can write one application (albeit in HTML5/JS) and deploy it to all three major Mobile OS’s, using DevExtreme, I will be creating an application that targets iOS, WM8 and Android. One thing I wanted to do was to access the hardware layer of the device with the … Read more
Every now and then I come across an application or utility that I think is amazing. Doesn’t have to have an all singing, all dancing interface, but do something really well. SQLBackupAndFTP is one of those programs. There are a couple of really cool things about this package. Firstly is the price, it’s affordable and … Read more
And so begins a new chapter… Evident in the pages of this blog is my passion for cool tools, with a definite bias towards the DevExpress tool set. Well today, I am proud to announce that I loved them so much I joined the DevExpress team as a Technical Evangelist for Asia Pacific. In other … Read more
Is it ambiguous ? Well at the outset it seems to be. After a swag of updates (iOS 6, Xcode, OSX 10.8.2 ::modem has officially asked for time off now::) I opened an existing client project that was working previously. This project was used during a prototyping session with the client, so why does it … Read more