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Recently I sat down as a guest with Richard and Carl on .Net Rocks and recorded a show on my experiences on migrating from XAML to HTML . Chatting w/ Richard and Carl is always great. In this episode we tried to focus on my experiences on moving from XAML to Html but when you have 3 guys w/ A.D.D. staying...
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A while back I was commissioned to do a video series for Pearson Education. This series will be available on their site as well as on Safari online in the near future. One of the unique things Pearson does for their videos is video headshots of you introducing your lessons, which by the way is way harder...
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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 these days have an array of sensors onboard the...
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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 a suspended state? In most normal scenarios...
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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 and laptops these days have an array of sensors onboard...
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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 post) Most tablets and laptops these days have an...
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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 it is common that the light sensor is used to illuminate...
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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 to do this in this post. Step 1: Enable access to...
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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 am going to walk you though how to access these stored...
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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 for your application var storageFolder = ApplicationData...
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If you are building a XAML based WinRT application which uses a GridView it is very likely you are going to use an ItemTemplate style OR use the ItemTemplateSelector to determine which style to use. This is great and using either of these could not be any easier. HOWEVER, make sure you do...
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Over the weekend I was pounding away at my first ‘WinRT’ application which I plan to submit to the marketplace. During this process I ran into some really odd issues with getting images to display in the UI at runtime. Let me explain my issue: I had images which were nested inside my Assets folder...
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Last night when I was doing some WinRT hacking I was trying to setup databinding to the selected item in the GridView control and I ran into a gotcha that I thought I would share. First, I was using the ‘Split Application’ template for my C# project. This is important because this template will...
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When building a Windows Metro (aka Windows 8) application it is important that your application have a nice looking tile. It is also encouraged to enable your tile to be ‘live’, meaning it can update itself with content based on some event, if that is relevant to your application. When you...
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**** 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 Search Contract Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 If you have...