Contents tagged with WPDev

  • Our rover at /Build 2016

    This year (as every year) I went to Build conference in San Francisco. The annual Conference of the developers of the Microsoft world where usually has presented the latest news and trends of the various technologies and products. For me the real news for this year was the opportunity to present a project developed together with my community colleague Marco Minerva  at the IoT Team booth in the Expo area of the Conference. The project in question is our rover that we developed to test the …

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  • And finally it’s here!

    After a (Very) long wait, today I receive the first REAL WIndows Embedded Handheld 8.1 device. It’s a Bluebird BM180 in the version Barcode Reader and MSR Reader but no 3G radio. Obviously it have WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC etc. I’m actually charging and configuring it. In the next days I’ll write a complete “test drive” using some of the enterprise app I’ve developed. For now I can only confirm: it exist!

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  • How to detect if an headset is plugged

    Some time ago, a friend who is working on a big WP8 project, asked me for a method to detect when the headphone jack is plugged or unplugged from the device, given that apparently there were no  API to do this.

    I also do not know the answer and not even my internet searches give any success.

    My first idea was to use the FM radio API to measure signal strength, as the headset is used as an antenna for the radio synth, I thought that the presence of plug in device would increase the …

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