Browse by Tags

How to use the Accelerometer in Windows 8 C#/XAML Applications

This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor Inclinometer Sensor Accelerometer Sensor (this post) Most tablets and laptops...

Published 01-27-2013 2:15 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro, Windows 8

Handling Resuming in your Windows 8 Applications

Windows 8 applications (aka Windows Store applications) have 3 different life cycle states they can go through: Launching Suspending Resuming Handling both Launching and Suspending is pretty much covered out of the box but what if you need to resume from...

Published 01-26-2013 6:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro, Windows 8

How to use the Inclinometer sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor Inclinometer Sensor (thispost) Accelerometer Sensor (future post) Most tablets...

Published 01-23-2013 7:02 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro, Windows 8

How to use the Gyrometer Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor (this post) Inclinometer Sensor (future post) Accelerometer Sensor (future...

Published 01-21-2013 5:55 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro, Windows 8

How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

Most tablets and laptops these days have an array of sensors onboard the device that developers can use and take advantage of. One of the sensors which is on most tables and laptops is the Light Sensor. This sensor can be used for many things and...

Published 01-16-2013 1:04 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro, Windows 8

How to Capture Images w/ the WebCam in WinRT (C#) applications.

When building WinRT applications you will want to implement the ability to capture images/video’s from the onboard webcamera in order to use in your application. Fortunately for you this is very easy to accomplish. We will walk through how...

Published 07-06-2012 1:21 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

Converting StorageFiles (png) to a Byte[] in order to display as an Image in WinRT (C#)

When you are building Metro Applications it will be very common that your application will have image (.png) files stored in local isolated storage and that you will want to show these images to the users inside your application. In this post i...

Published 07-06-2012 9:54 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

How to Create new IStorageFiles in WinRT (C#)

When building WinRT applications there will be the need to create IStorageFiles in the local storage area of your application. In this post I was going to walk through how we can do this step by step. Step 1: Get the StorageForlder object...

Published 07-04-2012 2:07 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source

**** NOTE: This post is valid for the Developer Preview of WinRT and MAY change in later releases **** This is one of many posts in how to use Contracts within WinRT. The other posts are: Being a Share Target Using the Settings Contract Using the...

Published 11-10-2011 8:01 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#)

When you are building out a WinRT/Metro application using C#/XAML you have the ability to add an ApplicationBar (part of the Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls namespace) to your application as seen below When you adding a Application bar you can have it dock to...

Published 10-30-2011 8:24 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target

***** NOTE: This post is valid for the Developer Preview of WinRT and MAY change in later releases ***** Window 8 has enabled developers to hook into various system ‘ Contracts ’ such as Search, Sharing and Settings. Contracts are like agreements between...

Published 10-29-2011 3:57 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#)

On of the new user controls which is being released with WinRT/Metro is the ToggleSwitch which can be found in the Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls namespace. When rendered the control looks like below. By looking at the above you can see 3 distinct data...

Published 10-25-2011 6:21 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing

When building a WinRT/Metro application one of the key integration points between your application and others is to allow Data Sharing via the Sharing Contracts. By default applications DO NOT support sharing and when a user taps on the Share Charm they...

Published 10-09-2011 6:54 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, XAML, WinRT, Metro

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract

**** NOTE: This post is valid for the Developer Preview of WinRT and MAY change in later releases **** If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application...

Published 09-28-2011 5:50 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, XAML, WinRT, Metro, Settings Charm

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 3

If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the...

Published 09-26-2011 5:40 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, XAML, WinRT, Metro

Sponsors

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

News

Blogs I Read

Links

Current Readings

Archives

How to use the Accelerometer in Windows 8 C#/XAML Applications

Handling Resuming in your Windows 8 Applications

How to use the Inclinometer sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

How to use the Gyrometer Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

How to Capture Images w/ the WebCam in WinRT (C#) applications.

Converting StorageFiles (png) to a Byte[] in order to display as an Image in WinRT (C#)

How to Create new IStorageFiles in WinRT (C#)

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source

Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#)

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target

Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#)

How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 3