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Fluid and smooth user experience is a key element of any good Windows Store app. If you are writing a game, you most likely will want to measure and display framerate related data (current framerate, min. framerate, etc.) . In this example I am going to show how to add a simple FPS counter to a Mono...

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SSL over HTTPS provides a mechanism for mutual server-client authentication. This can be used as an alternative to more commonly used username/password based approach. In this post I am going to show how to set up client certificate authentication in ASP.NET Web API application and how to use delega...

When developing Windows Store applications (former “Metro Style”), these are generally the files that I don’t want Git to include in the repository:

When developing Windows Store apps that support receiving push notifications, besides getting the application ID and hardware ID, I also like to get other useful information about the machine/device that can ease the management of the push notifications service. The network machine name is one of th...

This is one of the questions I get frequently when delivering workshops on Windows 8 “Windows Store” application development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

When developing Windows Store applications for the Windows 8, it’s important (or at least interesting) to know where the applications get stored after installing it through the Store, where all the files go when we write to the LocalFolder, RoamingFolder, and TemporaryFolder, and also where the valu...

When an unhandled exception occurs in a Windows Store app, this application is terminated immediately, in a silent way and without showing any error message to the user. This is the default behavior, but we can change it, if we want to.

There are some cases where we want a block of o code or function to be executed only when we are debugging the application, usually to show detailed error messages that are intended only for the developer to see.