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Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Getting primary user input

If you missed the previous two articles in the series:Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Layout and basic bindingsPorting Visual Studio...

0 replies - 2032 views - 03/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Minor problems and data acquisition

This is the next post in the series describing how to port a Windows Phone application to Windows 8. Yesterday, I showed how easy it was to move the basic...

0 replies - 2996 views - 03/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Switching between mobile and desktop hosts (ASP.NET MVC 4)

Introduction:ASP.NET MVC 4 comes with a bunch of new features including lots of features for mobile. Mobile features include Mobile Optimized Project...

2 replies - 2873 views - 03/11/12 by Imran Baloch in Articles

How to upload files with the Dropbox REST API

IntroductionIn the last part of the Dropbox series, we handled file downloads. This time I’ll show you how you can easily upload files to your Dropbox...

1 replies - 5284 views - 03/11/12 by Christophe Geers in Articles

Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Layout and basic bindings

One of the great features that is currently highlighted for Windows 8 and specifically WinRT is the low barrier of entry for existing Windows Phone and...

0 replies - 2837 views - 03/11/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Limiting abstractions: The key is in the infrastructure

In my previous post, I discussed actual refactoring to reduce abstraction, and I showed two very interesting methods, Query() and ExecuteCommand(). Here is the...

0 replies - 1683 views - 03/10/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Writing a simple named pipes server in C#

I solved a little problem last night when playing with named pipes. I created a named pipe that writes all output to a file. Named pipes are opened for all...

1 replies - 4588 views - 03/10/12 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles

Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand (1 of 3)

Part 1: Creating the Portable Library (this post)Part 2: Portability in Silverlight and WPF: a Tale of Type ForwardersPart 3: Portability in Metro: A CLR and...

0 replies - 1506 views - 03/09/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Case Study: Porting Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone to Windows 8

There are lots of discussions going on right now around the topic of porting existing Windows Phone applications to Windows 8. Based on the same fundamental...

0 replies - 639 views - 03/08/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Final thoughts on S#arp Lite

This is a review of the S#arp Lite project, the version from Nov 4, 2011.This project is significantly better than the S#arp Arch project that I reviewed a...

1 replies - 1955 views - 03/08/12 by Ayende Rahien in News

Use Windows 8 Icons with Segoe UI Symbol

Here’s a quick and easy tip for developing Windows 8 Metro applications. Are you looking for decent icons to use in your Application Bar? Windows 8 makes it...

1 replies - 6762 views - 03/07/12 by Jeremy Likness in News

Nice URLs Are Totally Different from REST

Rob Conery has been talking about REST lately, and I think he perpetuates a common misconception. In particular, in the post I referenced, he is asking about...

1 replies - 3391 views - 03/05/12 by Ayende Rahien in News