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Share charm stopped working while debugging Windows Store app?

An important part of working on Windows Store apps is implementing a Share contract, which allows your app to share parts of its content with other installed apps. Those apps then act as an extension to your app, taking that content and implementing them...

Published 12-04-2012 9:43 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Windows 8, WinRT

Highlighting search results within Windows Store apps

Download source code Guidelines and checklist for search page for Windows Store apps (formerly Metro) suggest using hit highlighting to “indicate why a search result matches the [search] query”, as displayed on this screenshot (taken from the linked page...

Published 12-04-2012 5:21 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, User Experience, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Windows Store apps: the case of missing StringFormat or Binding on the Run

If your previous developer experience include developing for other XAML technologies and you’re moving into the Windows Store apps space, you’ve already noticed that a lot of things you were used to in other techs, are missing from your Windows Store...

Published 10-16-2012 3:40 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Variable-sized grid items in Windows 8 apps

This is a screenshot of the Windows 8 Store app: And this is what you get when you start a new Windows 8 “Windows Store Grid App”: Wouldn’t it be great if you would be able to control the size of each particular item in your grid? To break out from dullness...

Published 09-01-2012 23:51 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Layout, User Experience, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Debugging WinRT/XAML bindings

Visual Studio 2012 may not (yet?) support debugging of XAML bindings debugging in WinRT/Metro-style applications in a way we’re used to from programming WPF and Silverlight (a.k.a. XAML breakpoints), but basic notifications of failed bindings in the output...

Published 07-23-2012 18:22 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, WinRT, Metro

Announcing a new user group

Dear Slovenian developers and UI enthusiasts, mark your calendars for 8th of November 2011 as that’s the day we’re launching a new user group targeting the UI/UX professionals. SIUX – Slovenian UX User Group – a sister user group (or a Siamese twin group...

Published 10-28-2011 12:06 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Software, Community, Silverlight, WPF, Tech, User Experience, general, WP7, Talks, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider

This blog post is part of my Windows 8 metro-style application declarations series. Read more about declarations in the introductory post about application manifest. User Tile Provider declaration allows you to register your application as a user tile...

Published 10-18-2011 12:51 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, User Experience, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Windows 8 Metro declarations: File Type Associations

This blog post is part of my Windows 8 metro-style application declarations series. Read more about declarations in the introductory post about application manifest. File Type Associations Declaration is very similar to Protocol Declaration . Similar...

Published 10-11-2011 10:37 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol

I touched on the Metro-style application declarations in my previous blog entry where I wrote about application manifest. I’m continuing the series with exploring the currently available declarations, starting with Protocol. I’ll be using C# Windows Metro...

Published 10-06-2011 14:43 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, User Experience, Windows 8, WinRT, Geolocation, Metro

Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest

When you create a new Windows Metro style application, Visual Studio will automatically create the application manifest for you. The file will be called Package.appxmanifest and will be included in the root of the project. Looking at it closer reveals...

Published 09-30-2011 13:00 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Windows 8 applications and JSON data

For anyone that wants to call various JSON data service endpoints in a Windows 8 (Metro style?) application, there’s a couple of changes in “.NET APIs for Metro style apps” (using MSDN terminology here) that needs to be looked into. For this blog post...

Published 09-21-2011 1:57 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

First look at Windows 8 application as a developer

It’s been a couple of days since I installed the //build/ preview version of Windows 8 and in this short time I’ve grown to quite like it. It’s an interesting mix of the new Metro style and the “old” Windows 7-like style. There were two things I’ve just...

Published 09-17-2011 16:49 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, User Experience, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Windows 8 geolocation API: First run

Microsoft Windows 8 OS was finally revealed this week at Microsoft’s //build/ conference. It looks like a promising OS, with Metro style theme showing all over it. If you want to install it, look it up on the MSDN subscriptions site or head over here...

Published 09-15-2011 12:13 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development, Windows 8, WinRT, Geolocation

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Share charm stopped working while debugging Windows Store app?

Highlighting search results within Windows Store apps

Windows Store apps: the case of missing StringFormat or Binding on the Run

Variable-sized grid items in Windows 8 apps

Debugging WinRT/XAML bindings

Announcing a new user group

Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider

Windows 8 Metro declarations: File Type Associations

Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol

Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest

Windows 8 applications and JSON data

First look at Windows 8 application as a developer

Windows 8 geolocation API: First run