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User Interface from Windows Phone to Windows 8

In this article I want to expand on the information already available about porting user interfaces from Windows Phone to Windows 8. The most important...

0 replies - 5614 views - 09/17/12 by Jared Bienz in Articles

Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program Open to Developers

To apply, please visit the Microsoft Connect site and complete a short application. Be sure to have your Developer ID and Application’s Product ID on...

0 replies - 1825 views - 09/16/12 by Zhiming Xue in Articles

Just Where Did I Put That Storyboard?

One of the cardinal sins ousted round the MVVM circles involves putting any kind of code in your XAML pages code behind, which is all well and good until...

0 replies - 2351 views - 09/14/12 by Simon Jackson in Articles

AZR323A Building Robust Windows Azure Applications

Introduction Building applications for the cloud.  Resource sharing and economy of scale drives lower cost.  Sharing CPU, memory and storage but come at...

0 replies - 1834 views - 09/13/12 by Rob Sanders in Articles

Telerik Products Nominated for Community Choice Awards

Introduction I have worked at Telerik for almost one year now and I’ve had the pleasure of working on a variety of products. Not only our XAML products,...

0 replies - 937 views - 09/13/12 by Michael Crump in Articles

WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.2.1 for Windows 8

WinRT XAML Toolkit version 1.2.1 was released few days back and is available for download from Codeplex. WinRT XAML Toolkit is a set of controls and...

0 replies - 1852 views - 09/12/12 by Senthil Kumar in Articles

The Most Common Errors in Windows Store Submissions (and How to Avoid Them)

This resource will show actions you can take -- and links to additional references -- that can help you resolve issues found by the certification of...

0 replies - 2093 views - 09/11/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

I think I just snapped

One of my biggest pains with porting my WP7 app to Windows 8 is the “Snapped View”, an interesting feature added to Windows 8 to provide “smart”...

0 replies - 2805 views - 09/11/12 by Simon Jackson in Articles

How to Access a Named Control Inside a XAML DataTemplate (using CSharp)

Let me summarize the problem In XAML, the ItemsControl, ListBox, ListView, FlipView, or GridView are the repeater controls. To define how each item is...

0 replies - 2805 views - 09/11/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

5 Points Developers Need to Know about WinRT

Most of us have already started developing for WinRT, so it make sense to have a better understanding of the runtime:1) WinRT is a new collection of COM...

0 replies - 4042 views - 09/10/12 by Anoop Madhusudanan in Articles

You are the Controller: A Step into WP7 -> Win8 Networking

I couldn’t resist, I should be working on my Windows 8 Port of Flipped (which seems to be going swimmingly) and finishing of some other projects but...

0 replies - 1930 views - 09/10/12 by Simon Jackson in Articles

WP8 SDK and Developer Woes

Right from The Windows Phone Developer Blog The full Windows Phone 8 SDK will be made publicly available later this year when we unveil Windows Phone 8....

0 replies - 2507 views - 09/10/12 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Local LINQtoSQL Database For Your Windows Phone 7 Application

There aren’t many applications that are of value without having some for of data store.  In Windows Phone development we have a few options.  You can...

0 replies - 2641 views - 09/07/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles

WP to W8: View States using Visual State Manager

This article is part of a series about my experience porting apps from Windows Phone to Windows 8. Official porting guidance can be found here and don’t...

0 replies - 3081 views - 09/06/12 by Jared Bienz in Articles

WinRT Behavior to Turn FlipView into a Kind of Windows 8 Panorama

(UPDATED for RTM August 18 2012) One of the most beautiful controls of Windows Phone is the Panorama. It’s ideal for showing a lot related content on a...

0 replies - 3350 views - 09/06/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles