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Understanding the Windows 8 Metro Grid XAML Project Template

Bruno Terkaly - Developer Evangelist - bterkaly@microsoft.com - How to provide cloud-based, JSON data to Windows 8 Metro Grid Applications – Part 2 ...

0 replies - 3163 views - 06/19/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Testing a Metro Application Across Two User Accounts

While working on the same machine, I often log in under two different user accounts - one for work and another one for testing with full (Administrator)...

0 replies - 1797 views - 06/17/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Looking at Windows 8 Metro App Internals? The Path Has Changed In The Consumer Preview.

Justin Angel put together a blog post on reverse engineering Windows 8 applications and he described the locations of the APPX packages on the local...

0 replies - 5993 views - 05/20/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile

I've been working on Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML. This chapter focuses on tiles and toast...

0 replies - 1991 views - 05/20/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World

In my last blog post, I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await keywords. I mentioned that the...

0 replies - 2102 views - 05/15/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Windows 8 Development Resources for Everyone

If you are starting with Windows 8 development, but have no idea where to look for tools and additional resources, then look no further. Here is a list of...

0 replies - 3872 views - 03/19/12 by Den Delimarsky 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 - 632 views - 03/08/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles