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 →
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 way back to the WPF application is through the Documents folder. Only when the data... Continue Reading →
To Metro and Back Again: A Developer’s Tale (Part 1)
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 →
Code Once Use Twice….or More
If you have programed against any of Microsoft’s Xaml based user interface frameworks then you might have heard about the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern. One of the benefits of this pattern is the separation of the view from the view model. All of the logic lives in the view model which is then bound to the... Continue Reading →
Dave's Two Cents 