Windows App Developer Links - 2012-06-08

posted on 07 Jun 2012 | App Developer Links

Visual Studio 2012

  • Getting Started with Load Testing in Visual Studio 2012 (Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog)

    • "Since the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta I have had several questions about load testing in Visual Studio. All of the questions to date have been around getting started... Unlike Visual Studio 2010 that had Test > New Test > Load Test on the menu you have to create a new project of one of the three Test projects. While there is a project type called "Web Performance and Load Test Project" it doesn't create a Load Test by default. ...Which is okay as a load test without any tests to supply load to doesn't make a lot of sense...."

  • Visual Studio 2012: Improving User Stories and Requirements with PowerPoint Storyboarding (Zain Naboulsi)

    • "For Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate users there is a great new add-in for PowerPoint that can really help you called the PowerPoint Storyboarding add-in. Using this feature you can quickly draft an interface design and get stakeholder feedback. Plus, since it's PowerPoint, even stakeholders can change elements easily to show you what they really want. Let me show you how this works..."

Metro App Development

  • MSDN Webcast Series - Building Windows 8 Metro Style Apps (Channel 9)

    • "Catch this on-demand MSDN webcast series to learn about the new platform for building Windows 8 Metro style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language choices, and the integration points with the operating system and across Metro style apps."

  • Windows 8 HTML5 Metro Style App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2) (David Rousset)

    • "Starting from scratch, we're going to learn through these 2 tutorials how to build a small RSS reader with HTML5, CSS3 and WinJS, the Microsoft JavaScript framework for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps. We'll try also to follow the Metro design guidelines by using Expression Blend 5. ... This first article will help you to create the welcome screen that will use a WinJS ListView control. This control will display all the blog posts recently published via nice thumbnails."

  • Windows 8 HTML5 Metro Style App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 2/2) (David Rousset)

    • "We're now going to see how to display the details of each article. We will use for that a transition animation, we will play with the simulator and we will continue to discover Blend to use CSS3 Multi-columns for instance. Like in the previous article, you'll find a video as well as the source code to download at the end of the article."

  • [Windows 8] How to create an awaitable component ? (Thomas LEBRUN)

    • "C# 5, with it's async/await pattern, is extremelly useful for asynchronous development. In Windows 8, the good point is that all the APIs which take more than 50ms must be run asynchronously! But how do you create your own WinRT component ? This might be simple but there are some tricky points that I wanted to highlight in this blog post..."

Apps & Code to Look At

  • Try Chrome in Metro mode (The Chromium Blog)

    • "Back in March, we began work on a Metro-style enabled desktop browser, a version of Chrome that will run in both the Metro and desktop environments of Windows 8 on x86. (Chrome won't run in WinRT, i.e. Windows 8 on ARM processors, as Microsoft is not allowing browsers other than Internet Explorer on the platform.) If you're running the Release Preview of Windows 8, you'll be able to try Chrome in Metro mode in the next Chrome Dev channel release by setting it as your default browser..."

Other

  • Designing GitHub for Windows (Tim Clem)

    • "Today, I thought it would be fun to give some insight into how we do native application design at GitHub. Many people are surprised to hear the breadth of design and code that happens at GitHub on a daily basis. We love Ruby and Rails, but we are far from a single language dev shop. We write code in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Objective-C, C#, C, C++, Java, and shell of various flavors from Bash to PowerShell. On the design side of things we obviously build web and native applications, but we also do print, animation and motion graphics. We design booths, stamps, whisky glasses, dodgeball uniforms, business cards and many many octocats. Most of our designers work in Adobe products but we did branch out a bit as a part of creating GitHub for Windows..."