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Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Visual Studio 2012 is releasing on 15th August 2012
Yes, you read the title right. Just after the announcement of Windows 8 RTM, Microsoft announced the release date of Visual Studio 2012. ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
WP8 SDK Leaked (Not by Microsoft)
As if the soon to be released Windows Phone 8 couldn't get anymore mysterious, it just did. A chinese website leaked the SDK for Micr...
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
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...
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...
Return Multiple Values(or Objects) in VB.NET
You might have searched "How to return multiple objects in VB.Net" in google and you might have got a lot of Ir-relevant articl...
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Windows Phone Crosswords
In this article I'll explain how to create a new game, a newspaper-style crossword puzzle, by using the Windows Phone framework to acces...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Fixing problems with Background Tasks in WP
Recently here at Windows Phone Central we've received a few help requests through our app from users who's live tiles all appear to ...
Application name matters in Window Phone
If you are developing an application for your company with a brand name or if you are developing the next Angry Bird game with a cool new na...
Building a WP Count Down Timer app Step by Step
The main goal is to create an app that allows the user to enter a time and automatically starts counting down the seconds until it reaches 0...
WP: Dynamically toggle PanoramaItem visibility
A strange issue with the Panorama control, that has been brought to my attention by @lancewmccarthy, and which has also been encountered by ...
Thursday, June 28, 2012
A gesture-driven Windows Phone to-do application Part Two – drag re-ordering
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about a todo list application which uses gestures to achieve its basic functions, a left swipe deletes an it...
Why most of Windows Phone apps that connect with Facebook will stop working on July 5, 2012
When developing apps that connects to social networks like Facebook or Twitter, the common practice is to show the user a web control that a...
Telerik RadImageButton: A new control for WP in Q2 2012
Today we are going to present one of the new additions to our Windows Phone Controls Suite: RadImageButton. This control inherits from the n...
Weekly Thai Recipe! for Windows Phone
This article describes the implementation and process of developing Weekly Thai Recipe. Weekly Thai Recipe is the third application that I d...
