Best Practices for Mobile App Sites

Since the dawn of the Smartphone, the amount of apps for almost any purpose from taking better photographs to making fart noises has exploded in numbers in a considerable way. While apps have some advantage in that they will be included within the catalogue of the device manufacturer such as Apple’s app store, it’s important just as with any app to take the time and produce a site for those

The Mother Of All Android Malware Has Arrived: Stolen Apps Released To The Market That Root Your Phone, Steal Your Data, And Open Backdoor

Openness – the very characteristic of Android that makes us love it – is a double-edged sword. Redditor lompolo has stumbled upon a perfect example of that fact; he’s noticed that a publisher has taken "… 21 popular free apps from the market, injected root exploits into them and republished." The really scary part? "50k-200k downloads combined in 4 days." Lompolo explains the situation quite well

Silverlight - Preventing the build of localized dll's

When you build a Silverlight (4) project, the Bin folder get filled up with localized versions of the dll's referenced in the projects where these localized versions exist.It turns out they are found here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Libraries\ClientI suppose it's a nice feature in some cases, but it rather annoyed me, so I wanted to get rid of them. So I deleted all

Facebook URL Redirect Vulnerability

------------------------------------------------------------------1. Summary:Once the victim clicks on a specially crafted Facebook URL they can be redirected to a malicious website.------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Description:Facebook applications use of 'track.php?r=' doesn't sanitize the redirection input properly.  This allows an attacker to input any URL

WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to XAML and Silverlight

This article is part 2 in a 12-part article series on Windows Phone 7 for iPhone and Android Developers.WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to C#  WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to Xaml and Silverlight WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Advanced UI WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Hardware and Device Services WP7 for iPhone and Android

Adorners in WPF

What is an Adorner?In WPF, an Adorner is special FrameworkElement that can be bounded to UIElement to allow user manipulate that element. Under manipulating we mean:Adding functional handles to a UIElement that enable user to manipulate the element in some way (resize, rotate, reposition, etc.). Provide visual feedback to indicate various states, or in response to various events.Overlay visual

Adorners Overview

Adorners are a special type of FrameworkElement, used to provide visual cues to a user. Among other uses, Adorners can be used to add functional handles to elements or provide state information about a control. This topic contains the following sections.About AdornersImplementing a Custom AdornerRendering Behavior for AdornersEvents and Hit TestingAdorning a Single UIElement Adorning the Children

Massive Silverlight Giveaway! DevExpress , Syncfusion, Crypto Obfuscator and SL Spy!

Oh my, have we grown! Maybe I should change the name to Multiple Silverlight Giveaways. So far, my Silverlight giveaways have been such a success that I’m going to be able to give away more than one Silverlight product every month. Last month, we gave away 3 great products. 1) ComponentOne Silverlight Controls 2)  ComponentOne XAP Optimizer (with obfuscation) and 3) Silverlight Spy. This month,

Google Pledges to Restore Disabled Gmail Accounts Shortly

In a blog post Monday evening, Google promised that the accounts of 150,000 Gmail account holders (0.02% of Gmail’s userbase, according to Google), which were affected by a reset glitch over the weekend, will be restored shortly. More:Imagine the sinking feeling of logging in to your Gmail account and finding it empty. That’s what happened to 0.02% of Gmail users yesterday, and we’re very sorry.

AttachedBehavior pattern sample

The ClickBehavior is about the simplest I can think of.  For illustration purposes I only included one command, but LeftClickCommand, DoubleClickCommand, MouseOverCommand etc. are all obvious extensions:  public static class ClickBehavior    {        public static DependencyProperty RightClickCommandProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("RightClick",                    typeof(ICommand),