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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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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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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 as we fondly call it ) of now years-running SLODUG...
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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...