Much of the animation that you want in your application is already built in. Pages and objects make their transitions smoothly. At times...
Showing posts with label Window. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Window. Show all posts
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Building Apps Across Windows 8 Platforms
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are finally here. In this article, I'll look at key similarities and differences between developing ap...
Mobile Services Custom Parameters in Windows Store apps
Well, it's now 2013, and I spent some time over the holidays messing around with using custom parameters in my mobile service… Windo...
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Playing with Windows Store apps apps
The past months I've been working on creating new, exciting Windows Store apps, using the Windows Library for Javascript, WinJS. For...
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Creating A Win8 Application From Scratch
Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch. That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML...
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Versions of Windows Operating System from 1.0 to 8
In this article, I am going to show screen shots of various versions of Windows Operating System. Of course, this screen shots are not ta...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tips for submitting your Windows 8 app to the store
I've recently been submitting apps I've ported over from Windows Phone so I thought it would be interesting to post about tips fo...
Shortcut Key Handling in Windows Store Apps
I wanted to create a simple ALT+S shortcut in my app to jump to a TextBox in my Windows Store App (no this is not the Win+Q search charm ...
Testing in-app puchasing in Windows 8
One of the many new features with upcoming Windows 8 is the Windows Store distribution and monetization channel. Developers can now add i...
Designing your Windows 8 app to be the best in its category
When starting to design a Windows 8 app, the most important thing to do is pick out a best-at statement. To create one, answer the questi...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications
Push notifications are one of the hallmarks of a personalized application experience. The primary difference from the other notification ...
Building a custom control using XAML and C#
You may already know that one of the most powerful features of the Windows 8 XAML platform is the flexibility the platform provides to cr...
Professional Windows 8 Programming with C# and XAML
It is an exciting time to be a Windows developer. The arrival of Windows 8 is a complete game changer. The operating system and its devel...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
File Manipulation in Windows 8 Store Apps
As we know now, Windows 8 Store Apps are a new category of desktop apps that are touch-centric and run on the new WinRT runtime on Window...
Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 5
After a little gap because of a family relocation, we're back on schedule :). This is Day # 5 in the Windows 8 development article se...
Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 6
This is Day # 6 in the Windows 8 development article series on common tips & tricks towards real-world Windows 8 Store apps. Now that...
Simultan development for Windows 8 and Windows Phone
I am an enthusiast of the Microsoft ecosystem. I was starting with coding one and a half year ago by learning Windows Phone development i...
Monday, August 27, 2012
Telerik Loves Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTMs!
Yesterday's release of Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012 marks the beginning of a new era. In some ways, VS2012 and...
First Look at Telerik RadNumericBox for Windows 8–HTML
Hello and welcome to the second part of our "Getting Started" with Telerik's Windows 8 UI Controls. In this post, we are go...
How to Fix Windows 8 RTM Activation Issue?
After installing Windows 8 RTM, I was facing an issue that says "Windows can't activate right now. Try activating Windows later&...
