Recently at the //Build/ Conference Microsoft showed off the development environment for Windows 8.1. In less than an year Microsoft has rev’ed Visual Studio. For Windows 8, Microsoft tried to provide project templates that got you heading in the right direction. If you did File-> New Project and you chose the Grid App template you... Continue Reading →
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 8 device. He starts out by showing each SKU’s side-loading capabilities : Domain Joined Non-Domain... Continue Reading →
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 is based on feedback provided by 12 experienced Window’s user. In this post I wanted... Continue Reading →
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 done before. I wanted to change the DataTemplate of an item in an items control... Continue Reading →
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 the selected item index. These subtle animation are part of the new experience of Windows... Continue Reading →
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, Reviews section. Currently there are no tab controls in Windows 8 and I haven’t seen... Continue Reading →
The other day I was researching the different file access scenarios available for Windows 8. I needed the research for my chapter on accessing data in my Windows 8 Book (more on that later). The restrictive sandbox that Windows 8 applications operate in can prove challenging. To access data outside the sandbox and Windows libraries... Continue Reading →
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 way back to the WPF application is through the Documents folder. Only when the data... Continue Reading →
Update: Part 2 Hot off the press As most of you know Microsoft is about to release a new operating system. If you have not heard then you should crawl out from under the rock and embrace the future of Windows. With the new operating system they are releasing a new type of application. These... Continue Reading →
In a few months Windows 8 will be released. This is an exciting, reimagining of the Windows operating system. With this new operating system comes a new application paradigm. Metro applications are optimized for tablets device. These new applications operate in a restrictive, sandbox environment. This is part of the security that is intended to... Continue Reading →
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