Format Date based on User's Locale in a UWP App
Another app I was working on recently needed to fetch the current date but also be in the correct format depending on the location settings found in Settings -> Time & Language ->…
Build 2015 and that Android/iOS Announcement
So here I am sat in the dining hall area of the Moscone centre in San Francisco nearing the finish line of another Build conference. As is always the case with being a Microsoft developer,…
TripleDES Encryption in WinRT
A recent Universal Windows Store app I was working on needed a way to encrypt/decrypt data on the device. After looking around I couldn't find the code I was looking for, so I crafted…
WebApi Async calls with IHttpActionResult
I'm currently working on a personal project where I am reusing a bunch of Task based api code from a Windows Phone project, and I am porting it over to WebApi. In a WebApi controller,…
Hi, my name is Kris
And I’m a freelancing software engineer who likes to work on whichever platform will get the job done, but more recently that has been the Windows platform with WinRt. Right now I’m travelling…