Windows App Developer Links - 2012-06-04

posted on 03 Jun 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows 8

  • Web browsing in Windows 8 Release Preview with IE10 (Building Windows 8 Blog)

    • "We built a new browsing experience in lockstep with Windows 8 to give you all the advantages that Metro style apps offer. We built that experience by extending IE's underlying architecture to provide a fast, fully hardware-accelerated browsing engine with strong security and support for HTML5 and other web standards. Internet Explorer 10 is designed to make website interaction fast and fluid for touch as well as for heavy mouse and keyboard use. With IE10, websites participate in the Metro style experience in Windows 8, including the Start screen, charms, snap, and more. IE10 also provides the best protection from malicious software on the web while providing convenient control over your online privacy."

  • Win8 RP - How do you get the desktop Media Player and Media Center? Here's the key... (Greg Duncan)

    • "Windows Media Center is not preinstalled in Windows 8 Release Preview. If you want to use Windows Media Center, you need to add it by following these steps..."

Visual Studio 11

  • Visual Studio 2012 RC is released - The Big Web Rollup (Scott Hanselman)

    • "Today Visual Studio 2012 RC (Release Candidate) came out. (It's 2012, so 11 make less sense than 2010+2) There's a lot of nice improvements for Web Development in this release candidate as we march towards a final release. Here's some of my favorite new features from the "Angle Brackets Team." That's my name for the Web Platform and Tools team. I hope it sticks..."

  • What's New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC (Stephen Toub)

    • "In September, I blogged about what was new for parallelism and asynchrony in the Visual Studio 2012 Developer Preview, and in February I followed that up with a post on what was new in the Beta. Now that Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is out, I want to share a few thoughts on what's new in the Release Candidate. Most new features for a release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework show up prior to a Release Candidate, which is typically focused on polish, performance, and the like. That's true for our work around asynchrony and parallelism in Visual Studio 2012, with a fair amount of work being done under the covers to improve stability and performance. However, there are still some visible features you'll see show up for the first time in the Release Candidate."

  • Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer Enhancements (Wriju)

    • "Visual Studio 2012 comes with a lot of enhancements. One of the significant ones is the Solution Explorer enhancement and it has many. Solution Explorer looks like a build from scratch. The new Solution Explorer is the combination of Object Browser, Class View, Find All References etc. Ideally you do not need to go to any other Window to work. Here are a few..."

  • How To Prevent Visual Studio 2012 ALL CAPS Menus! (Richard Banks)

    • "For all those people who can't stand the ALL CAPS menus in Visual Studio 2012 there's a way to switch them to normal casing. Crack open your registry editor and create the following registry key and value..."

Metro App Development

  • Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows 8 Release Preview (Tim Greenfield)

    • "In case you missed the news, Microsoft just hit a major milestone on its road to shipping Windows 8 with the public launch of the Release Preview version. With this new version comes new features and as expected: a number of trivial, yet importing changes that will affect app developers and their apps. Meanwhile, here at Vertigo we've been toiling day (and sometimes night) to help developers and clients prepare for this update so they can hit the ground running and create some of the first apps to ship on the new platform. One such effort that we were proud to release alongside the launch of Windows 8 Release Preview is the update to the Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework (an open source video player component for Windows 8 metro style apps)..."

Apps & Code to Look At

  • Player Framework: an open source component of the Microsoft Media Platform (CodePlex)

    • "An open source, robust video player framework for Windows 8, HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone and other application platforms. ... The Microsoft Media Platform's Player Framework is an open source video player that we continue to develop and evolve. It is available for Silverlight, HTML5, Windows Phone, Xbox, and now, in our latest release, Windows 8 Metro-style applications. And it's fully open source!"