Today we at Outcoder are pleased to announce the release of our brand new app: Farlight! Farlight lets you paint onto a moving canvas while creating stunning translucent animated abstract art. We’ve gone cross-platform and we’ve targeted all the major app platforms! Farlight is available for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone 7 & 8, and for Windows 8 on the Windows Store. We targeted multiple-platforms using the great tools from our friends at...

Katka has done a short and sweet write-up of our new app, Intellicam, which was just released to the Windows Phone Marketplace. There’s a lot of buzz around Intellicam: AAWP, Windows Phone News, WMPowerUser, Mobile & Apps, MaxiCep, WPXBOX, appbb, WPForum, xataka, WPMania, comunica, ... The app comes in two flavors: a free version and a paid version. The free version leaves a small watermark on the image.

Introduction Recently I have been using the Xamarin products: Mono for iOS and Mono for Android, to port some of our Windows Phone apps to iOS and Android. I like the Xamarin products a lot. Being able to contain most of my development activities to the familiar environment of Visual Studio has made getting up to speed easier. One key facet of the Xamarin products, in particular Mono for Android, is that they do not...

The Windows Phone 8.0 SDK is out, and while most sink their teeth into its cavalcade of new features, a few may encounter a small road bump when moving to the RTW version; as I did. After moving from a pre-release version of the Windows Phone 8 SDK to the RTW, I found that I was unable to launch the Windows Phone emulator because of a networking issue. The emulator would pop up the following...

This week there was a short discussion on the WPF Disciples about Knockout observables and the implications of field level and owner level data bindings. The discussion can be found in the guts of this post. I wanted to explore the topic further, and I decided to take a stab at implementing something analogous to Knockout Observables and Computed Observables in WPF. In this article we look at implementing field level change notification in WPF,...