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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”...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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Highlighting search results within Windows Store apps
Download source codeGuidelines 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...
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