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Lately Syncfusion started producing e-books grouped under Succinctly series . The books are for developers on (mostly) Microsoft platform and are a free download albeit registration is required. I’ve peeked into few of them and I have to say I like them. They won’t replace commercial n-hundred pages...
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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 in different ways, e.g. the Mail app will include...
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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): That’s a great way to show the user why results...
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I was poking around with excellent MonoGame framework by creating a simple game, or better, starting to create a simple game. So far I’ve spent a day to build some infrastructure from scratch and I am able to show a main screen with simple menu items. Nothing really ground-breaking. The aspect...
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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 app development experience. One example being there...
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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 of having all items the same size, like, for...
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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 window seems to be present and working. Let...
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Has it really been that long? For a quick recap before I reboot this blog, here's what I have been doing for the past months: Windows phone development I did a couple of new Windows Phone 7 apps, published to marketplace and currently working on some more. Web development I jumped into MVC development...
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My latest Windows Phone application was published to the marketplace a few days ago: MapSnapper is a simple utility application that utilizes static Bing maps feature to capture a favorite piece of Earth with your Windows Phone. In its essence, the application lets you navigate a map of the world, using...
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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 provider. That means that user will be able to use...
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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 in a way that it defines an OS-wide declaration that...
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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 style application samples throughout the whole...
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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 that it’s a plain XML file that can be generated...
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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 I’m using flickr API as an example of how to fetch...
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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 had to install though, to make my life easier while...