One of the things that I like about building Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012 is the availability of several rich and useful templates. One of my...
0 replies - 1143 views - 05/16/13 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles
In previous installments of this series, I've shown how you can quickly create REST-based services accessible via HTTP that allow you to easily store and...
0 replies - 1332 views - 04/15/13 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles
One of my favorite features of XAML is the ability to provide design-time data. This feature is present in WPF, Silverlight, and of course Windows Store apps....
0 replies - 1307 views - 04/10/13 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
In this issue, some upcoming opportunities to learn more about app and game development for the Windows Store.Gr8 St8 AppathonThe brainchild of my fellow...
0 replies - 1158 views - 04/07/13 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles
This week's Windows 8 snippet covers one of the most widely used tasks, especially when it comes to local data storage and retrieval - serialization. I got...
0 replies - 1655 views - 03/18/13 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
There's a new kid in town, maybe you've heard of him…Windows 8? Or maybe you've heard about his sibling, Windows RT. Maybe you've heard that over 60 million...
0 replies - 1965 views - 03/11/13 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles
Introduction
One of the toughest problems I faced when I built Notepad Classic was an issue where many functions like Go To & Find were always...
0 replies - 1202 views - 01/21/13 by Robert Maclean in Articles
Jim O'Neil - Technology Evangelist - Windows Runtime–what’s supported where? As
I’m sure you've heard, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store (nee...
0 replies - 1370 views - 01/12/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles
Does the snapped view required for Windows 8 apps provide insights
into the future of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 development? Windows
8 app developers...
0 replies - 5059 views - 12/28/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
This week my fellow MVP Scott Lovegrove contacted me and asked if and how he could pass the result of an event to my WinRT EventToCommandBehavior and/or...
0 replies - 1641 views - 12/22/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles
This article is Day #10 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...
0 replies - 3107 views - 11/13/12 by Jeff Blankenburg in Articles
When O’Reilly gave me an opportunity to review this book I was excited. It gave me a reason to finally put some time into this new platform and what...
0 replies - 1255 views - 11/07/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles
Windows 8 includes the ability to print content from a running Windows Store app. You use the print contract to enable that ability and the Devices Charm to...
0 replies - 1472 views - 11/03/12 by Gil Fink in Articles
I think the true pitch of Microsoft is all about connecting the dots –
Read a stable cloud platform, a plethora of PaaS offerings, A truly
modern and...
0 replies - 2727 views - 10/26/12 by Anoop Madhusudanan in Articles
With today's release of Windows 8, we decided to put together this gigantic list of Windows 8 links. Whether you're mildly interested in this launch or super...
0 replies - 11311 views - 10/26/12 by Allen Coin in Articles
