Recent content by XamlMan

Hahaha! I hear all you saying how expensive it is. I'll be showing my age here, but it doesn't seem THAT long ago when a company I worked for bought a Windows server PC for $11,000!! Yes, that's right. It was a top of the line IBM computer totally loaded! It had an Intel 486 processor at 66...

Try the Windows Live Photo Gallery to see if you like it. Sorry I can't share a link yet being a newbie on here, but you should be able to easily Bing it. I used to use Picasa for many years, probably since inception, and it has served me well. I was sad when they retired it, but my wife if...

News is that Microsoft has dropped support for Windows 8.1 so I would personally and professionally recommend upgrading to Windows 10 if you can. Here is the article about the discontinued support. Microsoft to drop support for Windows 8.1 | Windows Central

I'm hoping this little info helps someone researching side loading their UWP app. I just learned that since the anniversary edition of Windows 10, you can now side load the *.appx file found in the compiled Release folder (..\bin\x64\Release\) by simply double-clicking it. It is a very clean way...

I'm hoping this little info helps someone researching side loading their UWP app. I just learned that since the anniversary edition of Windows 10, you can now side load the *.appx file in the compiled Release folder (..\bin\x64\Release\) by simply double-clicking it. It is a very clean way to...

That's a bummer! My Microsoft Lumia 640 failed once after the re-boot, but upon re-downloading the update it installed fine. Took almost an hour until I could use my device again. Mine told me after it failed to backup my data and then reset my phone. I was glad I didn't have to do that, but...

<Hello> <TextBlock Content="I like XAML, can you tell?" /> </Hello> Seriously though, I am 44 from Lancaster County Pennsylvania where software development jobs are rare, but I work for a company who is letting me use my skills to write a modern Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Windows...