Monthly Archives: February 2013
Windows 8 Conference Buddy–Be A Sharing Target
Yesterday, we looked at being a sharing source. This was surprisingly easy. Being a target would be more complex except that Visual Studio provides a template that greatly simplifies the process.
Windows 8 Conference Buddy–Be A Sharing Source
Everybody loves to share. (At least after they are beaten into doing so in pre-school.) The ability to share from one application to another can be anything from useful to critical. Historically, we’ve seen a number of ways of doing … Continue reading
Windows 8–Let Templates Simplify the Search Contract
In a previous post, I showed a bit about how to implement the Search contract. Once you understand the changes to Package.appxmanifest and App.xaml.cs, however, you can save yourself the bother of mucking about with these, and let the template … Continue reading
Win 8 – Conference Buddy. Storing to Local or Roaming Files
In a previous post, I explained how to store data to a “known location” such as the My Documents folder. Often, however, you will want to store local data to a subfolder of AppData on the user’s disk. This is … Continue reading
Windows 8–Storing App Data
While your Windows 8 Store application is running, you want to be saving data all the time. After all, the user can switch to another application at any time, and you only have five seconds to store out your data … Continue reading
Windows 8: Creating Great App Bar Buttons
With chrome pushed out of Windows 8 Store applications, most of the navigation has been moved into the AppBar. A good AppBar has buttons that are easy to reach and easy to recognize.
