July 2017, and Simple PoS for Windows 10 has been released! Valley Software are very excited to see our latest and most ambitious project to date released into the wild. Simple PoS is now active and available in the Store for Windows 10 Devices. We’re scaling up slowly, with this first “soft” release and no…
Voyer is back in the Windows 10 store for PC, Mobile, XBOne and Holo after more than a weeks absence. If you have been having issues getting Voyer, that’s because it got pulled pending a re-assessment due to 4chan’s content, which Voyer consumes. Voyer was completely removed from discovery, download, upgrade and donation. We have…
Hi, I have a less happy post today. Sadly Voyer has (hopefully temporarily) run afoul of the Windows App Store approval process. It happened following my latest update; which none of you will have seen yet due to this issue, last week. I presume it was caused by that and not a complaint but am…
Worthy tidbit of info; When debugging background tasks, etc. It is not a good use of time to wait for the trigger to go off (especially when the minimum timer is 15 minutes!) In Visual Studio you can trigger them manually from within the IDE. What’s missing from that link is how to see the…
Well, having my new laptop which actually HAS a battery life rather than being a portable PC, I found myself working away and then putting it onto the charger, waiting for it to recharge ready for the next break. Rather than check it all the time, I decided I need a tool; Just something to…
Hi, I got what I thought was an excellent question on Reddit the other day and thought I’d post my reply here too. Rather than tidy up my answer (which seems unfair) any this is exactly as it is on Reddit. Question: “Why can’t it use a local database that is synchronized to my own…
It’s a scary moment; the day you let your baby into the world. Software is more that 1s and 0s. You put a lot of time, effort, emotion and really life into it. When you release it, even in a beta test, you feel like you are putting something of yourself on the line for…
I have to admit, I didn’t expect adding push notification services to an app could be so simple. However in a Windows 10 UWP app, it really is just two lines of code! Step 1) Install the Microsoft Store Services SDK on your development PC Step 2) Add it to your project as a Reference.…