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Published My First Android Application!
While I’ve been playing around with Android development for a few months and I’ve started half-a-dozen various apps, I finally completed one and submitted it to the Android Market. It’s a simple SQLite database app that contains the 2011 ferry schedule for the Star Line Mackinac Island Ferry.
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Taking Android Emulator Screenshots WITHOUT Eclipse.
I’m working on an Android app and before publishing it to the Android Market, I needed some screenshots. I assumed the emulator supported screenshots, but when I did a search for “android emulator screenshot”, most of the hits talked about how to do it from Eclipse. I’m using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. However, based on the descriptions, I understood what was going on.
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HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses
I’m blogging this mainly for historical reasons. I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure this out. Well, the first 10 or 15 minutes was getting code coverage enabled in Visual Studio 2010. There’s plenty of coverage on that topic since it’s not as intuitive as it could be. I’ll let Google handle that one.
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WPF: Simple “Busy” Overlay
I’m working on a WPF project that does some background processing which could take more than a few seconds. Instead of a busy cursor, I want to give the user a simple “Please wait…” message via an overlay that appears on top of the form. I found the solution in this stackoverflow question. However, the solution presented there was an overview. In this post I’ll show a complete example along with a downloadable sample project so you can play with it for yourself.