Some developers need to run code when apps are not running. For this, there is the background task. These are periodic and have constrain...
Showing posts with label Windows 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 8. Show all posts
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
HOWTO: SQLite with Windows 8 apps
I've previously posted a few things about SQLite including a HOWTO on how to build from their source code. If you still want to build...
Monday, August 27, 2012
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 Conv...
Telerik Loves Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTMs!
Yesterday's release of Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012 marks the beginning of a new era. In some ways, VS2012 and...
First Look at Telerik RadNumericBox for Windows 8–HTML
Hello and welcome to the second part of our "Getting Started" with Telerik's Windows 8 UI Controls. In this post, we are go...
Creating a Bar Chart with RadCartesianChart, part of Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls
In an earlier blog post I reviewed how to create a line chart using RadChart for RadBarChartMetro. In this blog post I will review how to...
How to Fix Windows 8 RTM Activation Issue?
After installing Windows 8 RTM, I was facing an issue that says "Windows can't activate right now. Try activating Windows later&...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Windows 8 Released to Manufacturing (RTM)
Microsoft announced that, today they released the new Windows 8 operating system to the Windows 8 OEM and manufacturing partners. Side-by...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
8 Great WP8 Features We Now Know
Windows Phone 7 was Microsoft's closely guarded secret; Windows Phone 8, however, has been the least guarded one. A while back, a vid...
Windows 8 Metro: Add settings to your application
Almost every application you write needs to expose an user interface that let the user change the configuration. In common desktop applic...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
How to add a settings menu in a Windows 8 Metro-style app
In Windows 8 development, there are some differences between the Javascript and XAML APIs. Some things are available in JS but not in XAM...
Creating beautiful views for local files in Window 8
Part of Metro style design is building clean views that allow content to shine and help users accomplish their tasks. We explore in parti...
Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics
In computer graphics, high performance is a guiding principle. In the early days of personal computing, discrete, add-on graphics cards w...
Saturday, July 21, 2012
WP Button Default Style
Just a quick tip of getting the Button default Style. NOTE: This article assumes that have installed Expression Blend. You can also take ...
Custom Styles and Templates in WP: Intro
A Style is basically a collection of property settings applied to multiple instances of the same type. Style mechanism in Silverlight for...
Custom Styles and Templates in WP: Button
This is the second article from the "Custom Styles and Templates in Windows Phone" series of tips focused on how to customize t...
Exploring Win8 Metro: The RichEditBox & FilePickers
Win8 provides a number of controls in the XAML toolkit that are easy to use RichEdit-File Pickerand that provide a great deal of flexibil...
Friday, July 20, 2012
How to create cool custom tiles in a WP application
The APIs provided by Windows Phone to create secondary tiles or to update the main tile are very simple to use, but not very flexible: yo...
Getting started with WP and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2
A few days ago, Rich Dunbar wrote a post about how to get started with with Windows Phone Development and the post went freaking viral. N...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Layout and Composition in WP – Part II
In this video we cover the basics of designing tiles. Tiles are used in Windows Phone and can (when it makes sense) be used inside of app...