Ready to start building Windows 8 Metro apps, but not to sure how it works? In this article, we will take you step by step through the navigation used in Metro apps.
While many of us have already been using Visual Studio 2012 for a while, it is interesting to see what is highlighted in the official launch. I've captured some of the highlights for you.
Vipul Patel walks Windows Phone developers through how to retrieve device information so that they can author applications to draw the maximum possible juice from the device.
For some reason, setting file associations is still somewhat of a mystery to many a developer. Hannes du Preez shows you how to create an installer package to do it for you!
In .NET framework 4.5 you can write asynchronous file IO operations much easier using the Async methods that are provided along with the IO base class libraries. Read this article to explore more about it.
Getting developers hooked on trial applications is a great way to monetize them. This article walks a Windows Phone developer through how he can build applications that support trial mode and how he can get them to switch from trial to paid applications.
It's unfortunate Microsoft didn't include a database for use when building Windows 8 Metro Apps in C#. However, there is a very popular database known as SQLite, which works very well in mobile environments.
Asynchronously running code can improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your web application. In ASP.NET 4.5 web forms applications you can register asynchronous methods with the page framework. The ASP.NET page framework and .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming support then executes the operations in asynchronous fashion. This article shows how this can be done.
Windows Phone developers need to know how the device is connected to the internet. This article walks Windows Phone developers through the process of finding the nature of the connection and how they can leverage it.
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
For some reason, setting file associations is still somewhat of a mystery to many a developer. Hannes du Preez shows you how to create an installer package to do it for you!
WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.
Microsoft announced new markets for Windows 8 apps as well as another benefit to MSDN and BizSpark subscribers.
While many of us have already been using Visual Studio 2012 for a while, it is interesting to see what is highlighted in the official launch. I've captured some of the highlights for you.
All indications are that Microsoft Windows Metro, as a name, is going away. Will a new name be coming for this Modern Windows paradigm?
