I’ve been working on another game for Windows Phone (7.5+) and the result is Aliens vs Finger! Aliens vs Finger is a (hopefully!) fun tap-’em-up game where you have to squish the aliens and stop the meteors crossing the screen, all the while being careful to not hit the friendly spacemen. Although it’s in the market …

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Azure Mobile Services is an pretty cool platform that I’ve only just started trying out. Microsoft provide quick jumpstart projects for Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and iOS apps – but that’s it. If you’re like me and are stuck working on a “legacy” app such as the Windows Phone 7 game that I’ve been working on for a …

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Kaki104 recently commented that they were having a problem using triggers in a certain situation. Helpfully a simple repro was provided – a simple grid view, with an attempt to start a storyboard when an item is clicked: The trigger had been placed within the data template of the item: 1<DataTemplate …

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LiveDataScript is a little utility to generate SQL insert scripts from SQL Server databases. I wrote it quite a few years ago, but since it’s still fairly useful and the last place it was hosted has now gone the way of the Dodo, I’ve re-hosted it here. This post will cover the high-level basics of using the …

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WinRTTriggers is a available from the codeplex project site or from nuget. Sample code for this post can be downloaded here. The latest update to WinRTTriggers (v1.1.0) includes 2 big changes: Multiple actions can be specified against a trigger An action can have conditions associated to it The first point is fairly …

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All the code for WinRTTriggers is available from the CodePlex project site, and is available in binary form in a nuget package. A few months ago I attended one of Microsoft’s “Windows Phone to Windows 8 App” events. The intent was to take Equazorand migrate it to a Windows Store application as much as possible over …

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A couple of months ago I released my first Windows Phone game into the wild. It’s a “maths-based puzzle game” that will challenge, infuriate (hopefully not too much!) and with a bit of practice, genuinely develop your mental arithmetic. The premise is simple – you have to highlight a sequence of tiles forming an …

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There hasn’t been much activity here for a while for several reasons, including a new job and the small matter of a total server failure for a few months… …but now I’m back. I’m on a new host, a new platform (Orchard) and have a new look that I threw together – ok, I’m no professional graphic designer, but hey, it …

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I don’t usually mess around with Access much, but when I do it’s usually to have it act as an intermediary data source while I’m getting data from one format to another. I had just such a problem to solve today, and the usually excellent out-of-the-box import/export processes let me down a little. Essentially I needed …

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This took me a little while to work out, and searching for an answer didn’t help me out, so I thought it might be helpful to post this as a pointer to anyone else who encounters the same problem. My scenario: A Silverlight Windows Phone 7.1 App a control with a number of visual states applied to it Interaction triggers …

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