Stupid Question 197-198: Why is the VS2012 menu uppercased, and can I undo that?
[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] Ever wondered why the VS2012 menu is screaming at you? I sure have. So I decided to do [...]
UG Tour in UK this week and next
Here are the events details, I blogged about them a few weeks back, but some have been unable to find the details so sorry about the spam Big thank you to Telerik for sending me <3 ————— previous sessions—————- Monday 17th of June Bristol VBug http://cms.vbug.net/Regions/VBUG-Bristol.aspx Windows Store apps language projection —————————————————— Please note that [...]
Advanced WP8 in easy steps: Speech
Bits and pieces from my slides and code from my session on WP8 at Norwegian Developer Conference 2013 Speech is a rather neat feature of Windows Phone, and we can now do more than just launch an application. Integrating speech in the app is easy, and allows the user one more way to interact [...]
Stupid Question 195-196: What is the difference between a framework, toolkit and library?
[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] I’m sitting on the train home from Norwegian developer conference and I am so tired, but happy. It [...]
Stupid Question 194: Windows 8.1, what is new?
[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] Excuse me being late to the party here, but I’ve gotten this question so many times the last [...]
What we will cover In this post we will introduce our next guide on creating Windows Store Apps, this time with JavaScript and HTML. Windows Store App guide with JavaScript and HTML A couple of months ago we walked through the steps of creating a Windows Store application in C# and XAML using Telerik graph [...]
I did a presentation on Leap Motion at the virtual conference DotnetConf last week, and I’ve spent the weekend cleaning up the code a little bit an putting together a simple video tutorial as it seems quite a few were interested and wanted some help to get started, and a step by step guide on [...]
I don’t know about you, but working with streams in WinRT has proven to be a challenge- at least for me. I keep expecting things to be there that aren’t and my reads and writes collide in my mind. Aside from WinRT, there has also been changes in (welcoming changes) in .Net 4.5, and I [...]
In Windows Store Apps the Settings of an app has to be accessed the same way, through the settings charm in the charms bar. Both app and system settings can be accessed there. You add commands to the pane itself, and that’s all you can do with the pane. Each command can invoke one settings [...]
I’ve gotten many question about design time data and how you can work with it. The default templates are for many a tiny bit complicated, and if you look at most of the examples out there for design time data ther are often just modified versions of the code in the template. You can download [...]
In XAML we often use the Grid element to create a fluid layout but at the same time keep the controls where we want them to be in relation to each other. Of course we don’t use just the grid, but it often serves as a main frame- or skeleton, for the app. If you [...]
A pretty cool thing you can do to better connect your website with your Windows Store App Oddly enough most developers I’ve talked to are unaware of this little cool thing you can do to connect your Windows Store App with your website so I’ve decided to write up this little blog post, and also [...]
Did you know there are different types of pens, two main ones? One that is considered as touch and one as pen? Let’s take a step back and get some basics down. Responding to user interaction in Windows Store Apps is very easy. Reacting, filtering and responding to user interaction. Since Windows Store Apps are [...]
To read the other steps in the step by step guide for creating a Metro/ WinRT application go here I can’t believe it is time! For the past 17 steps we have been working on a small Windows Store App together, and it is now time to submit it to the Windows Store. Let’s have [...]
I’ve noticed that the last how to change style during runtime example I posted is rather popular, and earlier today I was trying to help somebody with a TextBlock style change implementation for a Windows Store App. The difference this time was that we wanted to change an existing style, not just switch styles. Wether [...]