
In this blog post I will expand the blog post by Tim Heuer to include information on how to include and access a pre-populated SQLite database file, maybe...
0 replies - 3540 views - 08/22/12 by Erik Ejlskov Jensen in Articles

Bruno Terkaly - Developer Evangelist - bterkaly@microsoft.com - How to provide cloud-based, JSON data to Windows 8 Metro Grid Applications – Part 2 ...
0 replies - 3145 views - 06/19/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

It was only 1.5 years ago, but it seems already a long time ago that Laurent Bugnion described a “view service” for Windows Phone navigation, commonly know...
0 replies - 1499 views - 06/18/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles

While working on the same machine, I often log in under two different user accounts - one for work and another one for testing with full (Administrator)...
0 replies - 1792 views - 06/17/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Anything about WinRT - How to call WinRT APIs from C# Desktop applications – list the installed Metro packagesAs Jaime Rodriguez detailed in April, Windows 8...
0 replies - 2590 views - 06/17/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

I've been working on Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML.
This chapter focuses on tiles and toast...
0 replies - 1977 views - 05/20/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Introduction We have seen the IDataFlowBlock, in three different implementations and now we will look at a few more. BroadcastBlock<T> In
the...
0 replies - 2313 views - 05/15/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

In my last blog post, I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await
keywords. I mentioned that the...
0 replies - 2084 views - 05/15/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Among other API changed in WinRT, major changes were introduced to the image manipulation capabilities available in the .NET Framework out-of-the-box. For one...
0 replies - 4955 views - 05/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Cocoon "Cocoon
is a framework to support the development of .Net Windows 8 Metro-style
applications, in particular those that link to web...
0 replies - 2880 views - 05/03/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

If you are starting with Windows 8 development, but have no idea where to look for tools and additional resources, then look no further. Here is a list of...
0 replies - 3861 views - 03/19/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

If you missed the previous two articles in the series:Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 - Layout and basic bindingsPorting Visual Studio...
0 replies - 2010 views - 03/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles