In the Azure App Service Mobile Client Offline Sync: Do not use the CreatedAt field if you are wanting to display the date of an entry. With offline sync, the CreatedAt field for a new record that has not been synced is null. If you set CreatedAt to DateTime.Now or another value, on sync, CreatedAt […]
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Update Azure App Service Mobile Apps Beta to GA (General Availability) for Production
Microsoft has gone GA (General Availability) with the new Azure App Services Mobile Apps which means it is available for production use! To update to the latest NuGet packages, you’ll need to remove the WindowsAzure.MobileServices* packages from your projects and add the new Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client* (currently 2.0.0) packages. No code changes are necessary because even though they changed […]

Local Debugging with User Authentication of an Azure Mobile App Service
Local debugging of an Azure Mobile App Service can be a real timesaver, however, using provider authentication such as Facebook or Google throws a wrench in process. In the past, I resorted to logging on the server side and viewing the streaming logs. This was cumbersome and not to mention time consuming. Thankfully, that can […]
iPhone 3G with OS 3.1 nearly burned my leg and nether regions
Just thought I’d post this for anyone else having this issue that plans on having kids and is using the iPhone OS 3.1. My wife and I both have an iPhone 3G and I updated both of our phones to OS 3.1 the day it was released. We are now getting random iBSoDs (Black Screen […]
WPF application with DropShadowEffect renders incorrectly on nVidia GeForce drivers 185.85 and greater
For those of you who develop using WPF, I ran into the following issue recently: I developed MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, a WPF application, and with the latest nVidia drivers it displays erratic rendering of the interface. Graphical elements are missing, are half showing, when you mouseover them they appear and then randomly […]