Anger Oriented Programming

Passing Windows Phone Certification – The Back Button

Tip #2: How not to break Windows Phone certification rule No. 5.2.4 – Use of Back Button. So this is a rather common one, mostly because developers don’t take the hardware keys into consideration when developing an application, or on the contrast use them incorrectly.   Basically what it means is: Make sure the Back Button does what it’s supposed to do: Navigate Back. No matter what your application does, no matter how many transitions occur, the back navigation needs to be fluid, logical and...

Passing Windows Phone Certification - Correctly Working with Media

Tip #1: How not to break Windows Phone certification rule No. 6.5 – Correctly working with the Media Player. Oh this is a fun one… The first certification rejection I ever got was because of this one. It's a very simple rule, but not knowing of it's existence or how to abide it in code can make things tricky when you try to fix it later. The idea is fairly basic, if the user has music playing while entering your application (via Zune or whatnot), you can't hijack the Media Player and...

Passing Windows Phone Certification and Staying Alive

AKA: What are Windows Phone 7 certification rules and how not to break them   It's just so heart breaking. You've worked tirelessly on your new app, to you it's perfect, more than perfect, it’s the consummation of all your goals in life! But alas a few days after you've uploaded it to the App Hub , you find an update in your notifications panel .. You didn't pass certification. More or less, it's Microsoft's polite way of saying "It's not me it's you"...