May 24, 2013

How to Lock the Screen Orientation on a Microsoft Surface Tablet?

Posted on November 21, 2012 by in How-to Guides, Windows 8

One of my biggest gripes with the Surface is its neurotic tendency to change screen orientation with just the smallest shift in how I hold it.  It seems like the Surface is over-eager to not have the problem of older iPhones/iPads when iOS would be slow to recognize a switch in screen orientation. No, the [...]

How to Debug Windows Store Apps on a Surface Tablet?

Posted on October 27, 2012 by in How-to Guides, Windows 8

Today, I got my Microsoft Surface tablet. I rejoiced with a fist pump to the air, cracked my knuckles and said to myself “let’s build some apps!” I went to my dev machine (also running Windows 8 Pro), fired up Visual Studio 2012, created a new Blank Project template and was all ready to start [...]