Each day technology advances, along the way the definition of an enterprise application has changed. In the olden days enterprise applications would be installed on a users machine with possibly some backend services for aggregating data. These applications had to be reliable and robust. Not much stock was put into the user experience. There would... Continue Reading →
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
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 →
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 about some challenges you may face when bringing Windows 8 into the Enterprise. I also... 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 →
Last night I had the pleasure of speak to the new Windows 8 User Group in Boston. There was a pretty good crowd, well mixed in technologies (C# vs. HTML) and interests (enterprise dev vs. commercial dev vs. game dev). I hope that this will grow to be a vibrant Windows 8 community. I spoke... 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 →
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