Recently I've worked on a Windows 8 application to promote my blog: people can use it to read my posts within the application and to ...
Showing posts with label Metro Style Applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metro Style Applications. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Visual Studio 2012 Metro Styles for WPF
Although there are still serious discussions about whether the "Metro" design concept from Microsoft is good or not, WPF develo...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
How to add a settings menu in a Windows 8 Metro-style app
In Windows 8 development, there are some differences between the Javascript and XAML APIs. Some things are available in JS but not in XAM...
Disabling Design Time Data in a WP App
In the previous article, I discussed creating and working with Expression Blend design time data in Windows Phone applications. I'm g...
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...
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Metro Applications - FAQ
With the advent of Microsoft Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Office 2013, Microsoft is now all about Metro UI and Metro Apps. And when Win...
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...
You are the controller – a step in to WP7 -> Win8 networking
I couldn't resist, I should be working on my Windows 8 Port of Flipped (which seems to be going swimmingly) and finishing of some oth...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
8 New Platform Features Coming to WP8
Did you miss the Windows Phone 8 Summit? The phone team announced a number of platform features that are coming to Windows Phone 8 when l...
Positioning Popup Menus in Windows 8 Metro
Often when building Windows 8 apps you'll want to provide a menu of options from the app bar, this may be a list of different ways to...
Ultimate WP About Dialog
What does your app say about you as a developer? The app about page establishes your reputation in the eyes of the app user. It is as imp...
