Category Archives: Essentials
Yet Another Podcast #75–Jon Galloway on ASP.NET/ MVC/ Azure
Talking with Jon Galloway – Microsoft Evangelist – about ASP.NET/ MVC/ Windows 8 and Azure Listen | Yet Another Podcast
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Yet Another Podcast #74–Adam Kinney–Windows 8 and JavaScript and HTML5
Talking with Adam Kinney, Independent Design Developer and former Microsoft Evangelist and Jon Galloway, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, about programming for Windows 8 using JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5. Adam’s Blog Adam on Twitter Jon’s Blog Jon on Twitter Win 8 … Continue reading
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Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion
In Part 3 of this little mini-series on data binding in Windows 8 we looked at Element Binding. Today, we’ll take a look at Data Conversion. At times the data in your business object (the source for your binding) and … Continue reading
Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding
In my previous post, I discussed the three modes of DataBinding for Windows 8. Today we’ll take a brief look at binding not to data, but rather binding one UI element to the value of another. In this example, we’ll … Continue reading
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Windows 8–Data binding Part 2
In my previous blog post I introduced data binding. It worked, but there was no mechanism for updating. Updating comes in two flavors, and these are often confused by folks new to databinding: Someone else updates the underlying data; we’d … Continue reading
Windows 8 Primer–Data Binding (Part 1)
Data-binding is often thought of as an advanced topic, but there really is no reason for that. data-binding is Critical to writing XAML applications Not very difficult to learn A very powerful technique
Yet Another Podcast #72–Chris Bowen On Windows 8 Programming
Talking with Chris Bowen, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, on Windows 8 Programming and resources for programmers. 30 Days To Launch Chris’ Blog Top 10 Windows 8 Secrets of App Success Building Windows Blog Windows Team Blog Windows Store Blog VS 2012 … Continue reading
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10 Insanely Essential Utilities That Made It To My Windows 8 Slate
I’m spending more and more time on my Windows 8 Slate, but I don’t add programs or files to it lightly. There are two reasons for that: Space is limited on its 125GB SSD I know I’m going to have … Continue reading
Creating A Sticky AppBar in Win8 –
In talking with other developers, there seems to be a growing fear that creating an AppBar for Windows 8 is somehow difficult or complex. Nothing could be further from true; creating an AppBar is quite straight forward. [Click on the … Continue reading
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Getting Your Questions Answered
The single best place to get your questions answered are the Forums. (Now, I know that forums are often a company’s way of saving money on customer service, but the dev team and the Evangelists monitor these forums carefully, so … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #71–Esteban Garcia
Talking with Esteban Garcia about ALM, ALM Rangers, SCRUM, Agile and much more. Esteban’s Blog ALM Rangers Understanding the Visual Studio ALM Rangers Scrum.org Scrum Alliance VS Scrum 2.0 Guidance ALM With VS & TFS Listen | Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
Exploring Win8 Metro: The RichEditBox & FilePickers
Win8 provides a number of controls in the XAML toolkit that are easy to use and that provide a great deal of flexibility and power. I’ll be writing about some of these controls now and then, starting with some simple … Continue reading
