Category Archives: Essentials
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
Yet Another Podcast #91–Pete Brown on Creating Great Windows 8 Applications
Discussion with Pete Brown, Microsoft Evangelist, on creating great Windows 8 applications. We also discuss his forthcoming book on Windows 8, hardware, good software design and much more. Links Pete’s Blog Pete’s Books Pete on Twitter Acer Touch Laptop Logitech … Continue reading
Using the Grid App Template in Windows 8
Microsoft Visual Studio offers a number of templates for building Windows 8 applications. In most of my postings, we’ve been using the Blank application template, but the Grid App template is extremely powerful. Unfortunately, it is not obvious how to … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #90–Phil Japikse on Windows 8 & WinJS
Talking with Phil Japikse of Telerik about Windows 8 programming with WinJS. Phil’s blog Phil’s blog on Telerik Listen | Yet Another Podcast
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Yet Another Podcast #89–Laurent Bugnion on MVVM and Windows 8
Talking with Laurent Bugnion about MVVM in detail, including the ins and outs of commanding and managing events in Windows 8. MVVM Light Laurent’s blog IdentityMine Behaviors for Windows 8 (Joost van Schaik, uses Rx) Jesse’s book on LINQ … Continue reading
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Windows 8 Theme Transitions
Much of the animation that you want in your application is already built in. Pages and objects make their transitions smoothly. At times, however, adding a bit more animation can make the difference between a “fast and fluid” application and … Continue reading
Windows 8–Conference Buddy. Reading JSON From A File
I’d like to have a page in Conference Buddy that lists all the customer contacts. We’re currently writing these contacts to file in JSON format as described in this article. My goal for today is to read that file and … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #86–Azure Mobile Services with Josh Twist
This is a not-to-miss podcast on Azure Mobile Services, which tremendously simplifies databases, authentication and push notifications for your Windows 8, Windows Phone, IOS and etc. applications. Josh Twist is a Program Manager on the Windows Azure team and was … Continue reading
Windows 8–Grid View
GridView is one of the most powerful out-of-the-box controls in Windows 8, but fully understanding how to use it is not necessarily trivial. The complexity, I believe, comes because GridViews are often used to hold groups of collections, rather than … Continue reading
Windows 8 Persisting Conference Buddy JSON To A File
In my most recent posting on Conference Buddy, I showed how to store the data we’ll be accumulating in JSON format. Today, I’ll show how to write that JSON data to a file for local storage. Let’s return to the … Continue reading
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Windows 8: Storing JSON Data for Conference Buddy
In an earlier postings I described the project that I’ll be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In a recent posting we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we’ll be collecting. In … Continue reading
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Evolving Simple Wireframes With AppMock
In an earlier post I introduced the initial wire-frame design for an application that I’ll be creating from scratch in XAML and C#, tentatively named Conference Buddy. As noted in that article, Phil Japikse will be creating the same application … Continue reading
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