Microsoft announced that, today they released the new Windows 8 operating system to the Windows 8 OEM and manufacturing partners. Side-by...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
8 Great WP8 Features We Now Know
Windows Phone 7 was Microsoft's closely guarded secret; Windows Phone 8, however, has been the least guarded one. A while back, a vid...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Creating beautiful views for local files in Window 8
Part of Metro style design is building clean views that allow content to shine and help users accomplish their tasks. We explore in parti...
Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics
In computer graphics, high performance is a guiding principle. In the early days of personal computing, discrete, add-on graphics cards w...
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Exploring Win8 Metro: The RichEditBox & FilePickers
Win8 provides a number of controls in the XAML toolkit that are easy to use RichEdit-File Pickerand that provide a great deal of flexibil...
Enable or Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen
Inspired from Windows Phone 7 Metro UI look and feel, Microsoft included the same lock screen in Windows 8 optimized for both PC and tabl...
Friday, July 20, 2012
How to create cool custom tiles in a WP application
The APIs provided by Windows Phone to create secondary tiles or to update the main tile are very simple to use, but not very flexible: yo...
Getting started with WP and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2
A few days ago, Rich Dunbar wrote a post about how to get started with with Windows Phone Development and the post went freaking viral. N...