Category Archives: Essentials
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
Tagged YapCast
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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
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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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
What’s In Your Laptop Bag?
Last summer I followed Jeff Blankenburg’s lead and asked What’s In Your Computer Bag?, and then I posted what was in my bag at the time. As I get ready for my trip to Europe and the UK, it seems … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Hardware, Opinion, Presentations, Tools and Utilities, Windows 8
Tagged Observations
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Searching in Windows 8
Windows 8 Store Applications can take advantage of the shared “Charms” that you see when you swipe in from the right edge of your Windows 8 device (or press Win-C). The top charm is searching and it provides tremendous functionality … Continue reading
Posted in Contracts, Essentials, Metro, Mini-Tutorial, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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Yet Another Podcast #77–Charles Petzold on Windows 8
Talking with Charles Petzold and Jon Galloway about Charles’ newest edition of his iconic book Programming Windows (6th Edition). Charles Petzold may be one of the best known writers in the .NET industry because of his book Programming Windows. … Continue reading
690 Million Windows 7 Installations
Estimates are that there are over 690 million Windows 7 installations. If they convert to Windows 8 at one per second, day and night, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, it will take over 20 years. Better hurry … Continue reading
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