
I’m really excited to be hosting a few events in the Microsoft Raleigh office focused on Windows 8 development. The first on revolves around our...
0 replies - 117 views - 05/25/13 by Brian Hitney in Articles

Learn how to write code in Windows Store apps for Windows 8 that works with structured data in SQLite—apopular database that’s familiar to Android app...
0 replies - 398 views - 05/18/13 by Adam Grocholski in Articles

Learn how to write code in Windows Store apps for Windows 8 to save files, like photos or documents. You can store these files in app-specific file locations...
0 replies - 450 views - 05/15/13 by Adam Grocholski in Articles

Over the past several weeks I’ve been posting about how to build your first Windows Store application if you’re an Android developer.I want to wrap this...
0 replies - 443 views - 04/04/13 by Adam Grocholski in Articles

This is a very first app we are going to create for Windows 8, an image browser using a FlipView control. The FlipView control lets people flip...
0 replies - 2310 views - 01/24/13 by Shubham Saxena in Articles

Introduction You may have noticed that after creating a new
Windows Phone 8 application that the SplashScreenImage.jpg does not
exist in the project as it...
0 replies - 2815 views - 01/09/13 by Michael Crump in Articles

There are four supported orientations in Windows 8. There is Full View, Snap View, Fill View and Portrait View. Each is important in the overall strategy of...
0 replies - 2107 views - 12/15/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

Three and a bit years on and it’s time for a change. Blogging has been good to me – very good – but I was starting to feel a bit like the plumber whose...
0 replies - 4354 views - 12/13/12 by Troy Hunt in Articles

I saw this tweet and decided to respond.
The technical answer is YES. You can access the source code for Windows Store apps written in...
0 replies - 2244 views - 12/13/12 by Jeremy Foster in Articles

This article is Day #31 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...
0 replies - 3104 views - 12/12/12 by Clark Sell in Articles

This article is Day #30 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...
0 replies - 2154 views - 12/11/12 by Clark Sell in Articles

The WebView control is very useful to display HTML pages and elements into a Windows Store application. For example, I use in my blog’s application to...
0 replies - 2347 views - 12/11/12 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

This article is Day #29 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...
0 replies - 1722 views - 12/10/12 by Clark Sell in Articles

This article is Day #27 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...
0 replies - 1991 views - 12/07/12 by Clark Sell in Articles

An interstitial advertisement is traditionally recognized as a full-page ad appearing between two pages. Interstitial, which means “gap” perceives a gap...
0 replies - 2285 views - 12/07/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles