#011 Visual Studio Full Screen Options

December 22, 2012 by

Space management in Visual Studio is important. Especially if you have Studio running on a projector, small monitory, or are using the split screen options extensively.

Visual Studio has a couple of running modes, and each of these modes has it’s own memory. So when you’re in Full Screen, Debug, or Normal mode, Visual Studio will remember your window/panel/toolbar locations for that specific session.

I like to run my Solution Explorer on the left in regular and full screen mode, but on the right in while in debug view. This is a huge reminder to me that I’m running in debug mode.

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Windows Phone 8: Taking a Screen Shot

December 21, 2012 by

Just get a high score you want to save (for bragging rights)? Or you want to save that 4 Square Check in?

Here is my favorite? Screen shot the bar code on your boarding pass in the email app. Then when you get to the event or airport, the barcode or QRCode is already in your “screenshots”, which is much faster to navigate to.

This quick Windows Phone 8 screen cast, shows how to take a screen shot, shows you where it’s saved on your phone, and also shared the photo up to facebook.

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Windows Phone 8: Built in Screen Magnifier

December 21, 2012 by

If you have low vision, or find your self squinting to see really tiny, Windows Phone 8 has a really nice feature named “Screen Magnifier”. This could help if you’re in a dark area (like on a plane, or cab at night), so it’s a nice feature to learn and love.

It’s a little hard to get used to,m because of the two finger – double tap that needs to happen, but with a little practice it become second nature.

Enjoy!

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Windows Phone 8: IE10 Desktop or Mobile

December 19, 2012 by

Windows Phone 8 has a very nice version of Internet Explorer v10 built in, and does an amazing job with HTML5, video, pinch/zoom, tabs, pinned tiles, and a bunch of other great features. One nice feature is that under Settings, you can tell IE10 on Windows Phone 8, to pretend to be the full desktop version of IE10. This is done simply by switching a user agent for every request.

This video shows (using Fiddler as a reverse proxy) exactly what happens to the user agent when you switch between Mobile and Desktop mode.

Mobile User Agent: (Notice the IEMobile/10.0)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows Phone 8.0; Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 920)

Desktop: (Notice the WPDesktop)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0; ARM; Touch; WPDesktop)

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Mobile Text Reminder: Betwext in Action

December 19, 2012 by

Betwext is an online service that is all about SMS texting. Text your customers, group text each friends or family or colleagues. And it has this little hidden gem of a service named “REMIND”.

It does …. well …. exactly that. Reminds you. You send a text with a note to yourself, and the date and time you want it to remind you, and it’ll then send that note back to you on that date and time.

It’s a service that I use on a regular basis, and is the subject of today’s Windows Phone Screencast.

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