So you’re
doing Windows 8 development and, very likely, your app needs to display
some data. Rarely this data is immediately available: maybe you need to...
0 replies - 3072 views - 08/31/12 by Matteo Pagani in Articles
Introduction All throughout my blog you will find tons of blog posts
for common problems that I have encountered while developing
applications using...
0 replies - 2196 views - 08/26/12 by Michael Crump in Articles
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of my book, Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML.
The Open Data Procotol (OData)
is a web protocol used for...
0 replies - 2353 views - 08/25/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
Jerry Nixon @work - Hooray! Here’s all 316 pages of the Windows 8 UX Guidelines in one cool PDF"Fortunately, we are providing UX guidelines to...
0 replies - 6579 views - 08/22/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
In this blog post I will expand the blog post by Tim Heuer to include information on how to include and access a pre-populated SQLite database file, maybe...
0 replies - 3574 views - 08/22/12 by Erik Ejlskov Jensen in Articles
N.B. If you don’t know anything about WinJS, take a moment to peruse this primer. Also, the context of this post is the p&p Hilo project. Derick Bailey...
0 replies - 2311 views - 08/21/12 by Christopher Bennage in Articles
Microsoft Press - Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Second Preview)We’re happy to release the Second Preview of our free...
0 replies - 4468 views - 08/21/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
Windows 8 Unleashed (via email)Full Day of Hands On Programming, B.Y.O. Laptop! Windows 8 is is the single biggest opportunity for developers EVER! Come to a...
0 replies - 1982 views - 08/20/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
Today Steve Ballmer stepped up on stage and stated that while we’ve
seen great change with things like cloud computing, Windows is the
“heart and...
0 replies - 3041 views - 06/19/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
Bruno Terkaly - Developer Evangelist - bterkaly@microsoft.com - How to provide cloud-based, JSON data to Windows 8 Metro Grid Applications – Part 2 ...
0 replies - 3171 views - 06/19/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
It was only 1.5 years ago, but it seems already a long time ago that Laurent Bugnion described a “view service” for Windows Phone navigation, commonly know...
0 replies - 1512 views - 06/18/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles
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 - 1804 views - 06/17/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Anything about WinRT - How to call WinRT APIs from C# Desktop applications – list the installed Metro packagesAs Jaime Rodriguez detailed in April, Windows 8...
0 replies - 2616 views - 06/17/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
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 - 6004 views - 05/20/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Cocoon "Cocoon
is a framework to support the development of .Net Windows 8 Metro-style
applications, in particular those that link to web...
0 replies - 2891 views - 05/03/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
