A few days ago the Windows Phone version reached 10 000 download mark on the Windows Phone Store!
Thanks for all the users for this unbelievable achievement! There are some open bugs that I will fix at some point. Also, I have a lot of development ideas as well, finding the time to implement them is the harder problem to solve :)
I submitted Photo Location Planner to Windows Phone Store just about a month ago. This weekend the statistics tell me that it has been downloaded from the store over 5000 times! That is way more than I anticipated, although the app is free but it has a fairly limited audience. The download stats look currently like this:
Past few weeks it has been fairly steady at 150-200 downloads per day, which is amazing! I have done very minimal marketing, just a few tweets and blog posts + word of mouth to friends + one post to a local photography forum.
To be honest there is currently at least one case when it seems to crash, stay tuned for an updated version. Many thanks for the individuals who have submitted a crash report via email!
Photo Location Planner in Windows Phone Store.
New features:
Version 1.2 has been available in the store for a few days now.
private static DateTime julianDateToDate(double julianDate)results in an ArgumentOutOfRangeException if the argument julianDate is NaN (which happens when the app logic fails to calculate various twilight times – they cannot be calculated at all at certain times of year and place).
{
DateTime dt = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
dt = dt.AddMilliseconds((julianDate + 0.5 - J1970) * msInDay);
return dt;
}
private static DateTime julianDateToDate(double julianDate)The lesson here obviously is: the emulator is not the same thing as the real device. Remember to test your apps on the device as well!
{
if (double.IsNaN(julianDate))
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("julianDate");
DateTime dt = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
dt = dt.AddMilliseconds((julianDate + 0.5 - J1970) * msInDay);
return dt;
}
Are you a landscape photographer? Do you need to plan when and where you need to go to capture the perfect sunrise or sunset photograph?
Aalisoft has developed an app that lets you see when the sun rises and sets as well as the direction on an interactive map. The times and directions depend on two things: the date and place. Before the exact times can be calculated, the position needs to be pointed on the map and the desired date needs to be selected (by default it is today but you can plan ahead and select whatever date you desire).
There are three different types of twilights:
All these three twilights will also be calculated and shown on the screen. See a good explanation on the different twilights here as it relates to photography.
Photo Location Planner has been available free for Windows 8 and Windows RT since December 2012.
Photo Location Planner in Windows Store
A version of Photo Location Planner is now available also for Windows Phone 7.5 and later (including Windows Phone 8).
Photo Location Planner in Windows Phone Store
Have fun and take great sunset/sunrise photographs! Or just enjoy the sun without a camera, now you know when it rises and sets!
Aalisoftin tekemä Windows 8 –sovellus Photo Location Planner on arvosteltu mBnetin viikon ohjelmat-artikkelina. Jos olet Windows 8-käyttäjä, käy kokeilemassa!
Sovelluksen Windows Phone-versio on lähiaikoina myös saatavilla.
I have been a happy user of Team Foundation Service (aka TFS Azure) ever since it was released to general public. Today I ran into an issue that I could not get identified from within Visual Studio (running version 2012.1). I always got
TF31003: Either you have not entered the necessary credentials or your user account does not have permission to connect to the Team Foundation Server at https://***.visualstudio.com/. Ask your server administrator to add the appropriate permissions to your account
No login prompt was displayed at all.
TFS worked like a charm for me if I opened the browser portal, however. I could see all the projects etc. After a bit of searching around the internet it cleared to me: I had logged on earlier using a Microsoft account (Live id) that was not among the ids that have access to the service. Not sure how it really works, but it seemed to make a difference if I opened the browser with “run as admin”. I am also running Visual Studio with “run as admin”, so it sort of makes sense. Anyway, the problem was cleared by opening a “run as admin” browser, go to ***.visualstudio.com, let it tell me that I do not have access and then sign out the account.
And voila, after that Visual Studio asks me for login when I retry connect to team foundation server!
In some internet resources it says that it can be resolved by clearing all cookies, which probably also effectively forgets the auto-signin to TFS.
