My talk about Windows 8

Posted on 21 May 2013 by Willem Meints

A while back I did a talk on Windows 8, learning students how to develop apps for this new version of Windows. Back then I promised to make the samples and the slide deck available to you somewhere on the Continue reading →

Running Windows Phone 8 emulator on Mac

Posted on 6 April 2013 by Willem Meints

Since a few days I’m running a mac computer for my work. Why? Because I do a lot of mobile development. I started out with Android phone development, but now I’m expanding my skillset more and more into the iOS/Mac Continue reading →

Easy way to improve DbEntityValidationException of Entity Framework

Posted on 4 April 2013 by Martin Devillers

DbEntityValidationException is the exception thrown by Entity Framework when entity validation fails. While this exception is extremely valuable, the exception message omits the most important bit of information: The actual validation errors. In this blog, I present a quick and Continue reading →

Orchard advanced topics: Working with features

Posted on 15 October 2012 by Willem Meints

On the internet there’s a ton of tutorials on building Orchard modules. In fact, I think I can name 10 within a few minutes that all do the same thing. However, none of them tell you about the awesomeness of Continue reading →

Mono for Android by example: Building universal apps

Posted on 14 October 2012 by Willem Meints

As most developers will know, Android runs on both tablets and phones these days. Supporting a tablet and a phone could mean that build a tablet version of your app. This would require to copy all of your code and Continue reading →