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· Technology · Comments
iTunes Unlock Confirmation Summary (TL;DR) This is a bit long but the short and sweet is that you have to: Get AT&T to go to a separate “iPhone Unlock” page before they send the unlocking email. The email is not connected to your IMEI unlock in any way. It’s just instructions. Put a non-AT&T SIM…
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· Programming · Comments
Right now .Net 4.5 is still in beta, but I noticed something that will make developers who must interact with zip files happy: .Net 4.5 will have native support for dealing with zip files. Up until now, the System.IO.Compression namespace only had support for GZipStream and DeflateStream. This post explores how working with SharpZipLib now compares to working with what is upcoming in the .Net 4.5 framework.
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TLDR: If you put your computer to sleep, the Windows Phone emulator might have the wrong time when you resume. Restart the emulator to get it to have the current time in its clock. I was working on my fork of an OAuth library for Windows Phone this weekend, and I ran across a really…
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The Problem I’ve been doing a bit of WPF/ Windows Phone development. Usually INotifyPropertyChanged declarations for properties are really ugly. The big problem is that the INotifyPropertyChanged interface relies on strings, which don’t refactor well. I’m also using the fantastic MVVM Light Toolkit, which makes life a lot easier when doing Windows Phone development. MVVM…
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