Category Archives: Essentials
Creating A Win8 App From Scratch–A Scrolling Home Page
In a previous article I discussed the project that I’ll be building in Windows 8. We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs. While these designs were not … Continue reading
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Windows 8 and Geolocation
In this posting, we’ll look at how to track location coordinates in Windows 8. (Click on image for full size) In order to get this to work, we need to be able to obtain the values we’re displaying (e.g., for … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #83–Jon Galloway on Azure and ASP.NET–What’s New.
Jon Galloway joins me for a wrap up of what is new in Azure, ASP.NET and surrounding technologies. A /build wrap up that starts with the Day 2 Keynote and walks through all the new cool stuff coming out of … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, Essentials, HTML5, JavaScript, Mobile, MVC, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, Visual Studio, Windows 8
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Creating A Windows 8 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 with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil) and a Windows 8 Phone … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #81–Mary Jo Foley on /Build &Windows 8
Mary Jo Foley joins Jon Galloway and me in a free wheeling discussion and review of /Build 2012, Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone and Azure. Mary Jo is the editor of ZDNet’s All About Microsoft blog and the co-host of … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Observations, Opinion, Windows 8, WindowsPhone
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Yet Another Podcast #80–Miguel de Icaza & Mono
Miguel joins Jon and me to discuss Mono and Xamarin and the future of open source C# coding for iOS and Android. Related links: Core Mono: http://github.com/mono The Mono organization on GitHub http://mono-project.com The Mono web site. http://xamarin.com Miguel’s company … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Essentials, Languages, Migration, Mobile, MVC, MVVM, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
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Upgrading to Windows 8 Pro
If you have an MSDN account, you may be able to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro. First, login to http://msdn.microsoft.com and click on Access Benefits. Once there, click on Go To My Product Keys and scroll down … Continue reading
Windows 8–Toast Notification
Continuing my series based on the presentations I’m giving in Europe, today I turn to toast notifications. As with Tiles, Toast notifications are a great way to let the user know that something interesting is happening with your application. Toast … Continue reading
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Creating A Live Tile
Continuing my series of Blog posts that distill the presentations I’m giving this month in Europe and the UK, today I’ll take a look at creating a Live Tile. Live tiles tell the user that something interesting is happening in … Continue reading
Windows 8–Search Suggestions
I recently started a series of postings from my tour of presentations in Europe and the UK. Today I’d like to return to Searching (which I started to cover here), and this time take a look at what it takes … Continue reading
Windows 8 App Bars
In my previous posting I said that I’d be distilling parts of my presentations into blog posts. This post continues that idea, focusing on the App Bar. If we are going to place Content Before Chrome and remove as much … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Metro, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8, WinRT
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Windows 8–Who Cares?
I am in Europe this week and for the next three weeks, traveling from city to city and giving presentations on Windows 8. Along the way I will be distilling these presentations into blog posts, adding in commentary about what … Continue reading