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Category Archives: Windows 8
Modern Enterprise Applications – Native Application vs. Mobile Web
In my recent post, A Mobile Web Strategy, I covered some of the architectural decisions that go into build a mobile website. I glazed over the process of choosing whether to a mobile web application or build a native application. … Continue reading
Posted in HTML5, Mobile, Modern Application, Software Architecture, UX, Windows 8, WP7, WP8
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The Cost of Side-Loading on Windows 8
Recently, Rocky Lhotka wrote a blog post call Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device. In this post he breaks down the cost to side load a Modern UI Application (formally known as Metro) on to a Windows … Continue reading
Modern Enterprise Applications – A Mobile Web Strategy
In my last post, Modern Enterprise Applications, I started to look at what it takes to build a modern enterprise application. Technological advances have added complexities to building enterprise application. The expectations of enterprise users has changed. They expect to … Continue reading
Posted in HTML5, Modern Applicaiton, Silverlight, Software Architecture, User Experience, Windows 8, WP8
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My Thought on Windows 8–A User’s Perspective
Recently there has been a lot of different reviews for Windows 8. Some of them good some of them bad. Dr. Jacob Nielsen, a user experience expert, wrote an article providing his insights into Microsoft’s new operating system. The article … Continue reading
Controlling The DataTemplate
Windows 8 has now shipped and developers are busy building Windows Store Applications (bad name). Developers who have experience working with Xaml have expectations on how Xaml should behave. The other day I was trying to do something I have … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, User Experience, Windows 8, WinRT
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Boston Code Camp 18
Updated: Here is a link to a video that shows the new SCCM features for supporting Windows 8 that are available in the SP1 Today I presented ‘Reimagining the Enterprise with Windows 8’ at Boston Code Camp 18. I talked … Continue reading
Posted in Code Camp, UX, Windows 8, WinRT
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Simulating A Tab Control in a Windows 8 Application–Take 2
In my previous post on Simulating a Tab Control, I used radio buttons and a FlipView control to simulate a tab control. A commenter pointed out that there were no animation when changing FlipViewItems if you switch items by setting … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, Mobile, User Experience, UX, Windows 8, WinRT
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Simulating A Tab Control in a Windows 8 Application
I was looking through the forums on MSDN today and found someone asking how to implement a Tab Strip Control in Windows 8 Store applications. They used the Store as an example, wanting functionality that behaves like the OverView, Details, … Continue reading
To Metro and Back Again: A Developer’s Tale (Part 2)
In my last post, I started a journey to see if I can share data between a WPF application and a Windows 8 Metro application. We left off with the data in the Metro application. According to the map the … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, Software Architecture, Windows 8, WinRT, WPF
Tagged Application, Enterprise, Legacy, Metro, Windows 8, WinRT, WPF
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