Windows App Developer Links - 2012-06-25

posted on 24 Jun 2012 | App Developer Links

Internet Explorer 10

  • Developer Guidance for Web Sites with Flash Content in Windows 8 (IEBlog)

    • "The Windows 8 Release Preview includes a new power-optimized, touch-friendly Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Flash content on compatible Web sites will now play in Metro style IE10. Metro style IE10 with Flash on Windows 8 enables people to see more of the Web working with high quality, especially compared with the experience in other touch-first or tablet experiences. On Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10 on the desktop and Metro style IE use the same integrated Adobe Flash Player with no need to download or install an additional player. IE10 on the desktop provides the same full Flash support as previous versions of IE that relied on the Flash Player plug-in from Adobe and continues to support other 3rd party plug-ins. Metro style IE continues to provide no support for 3rd party ActiveX controls or plug-ins..."

Metro App Development

  • Windows 8 site detection helps you to find apps for the site you're visiting (Mobility Digest)

    • "If you're using a Windows Phone you know that some sites have enabled browser detection and they give you a popup or redirect you to a link to their app. In fact, our forums do it through a script. In Windows 8, the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 has a feature that can be enabled to quickly help you see that there's an app for the site. There's a wrench icon for options at the bottom. If there's a plus sign shown on the wrench then you know that by pressing the wrench a normally greyed out option "Get app for this site" is enabled. Of course, pressing that then launches the Marketplace for that app. If you're using IE10 now, head over to WordPress.com and you'll see the wrench icon change. However, other sites that have apps (like MSNBC, WikiPedia, USAToday and AllRecipes) fail to detect the Win8 apps so it needs to be scripted..."

  • Windows 8 Metro App: Error during App Packaging (Zubair Ahmed)

    • "If you are building a Metro app for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 cannot create the application package due to invalid or expired certificate then here is what you need to do. Double-click Package.appxmanifest file in Solution Explorer and go to the Packaging tab, click Choose Certificate.. then from the dropdown choose Create test certificate..."

  • Image manipulation in Windows 8 metro app (Glenn Versweyveld)

    • "Our Community app presents a list of events that contain sessions. Such a session can be given by one speaker or more speakers. What we wanted to achieve was to let the user of our app directly see the image(s) of the speaker(s) when he looks at the session list. But the trick here is that because of the use of XAML templates we only have one Image control inside our session list with a given Width and Height. So we need to transform the given images so that they will fit. The effect we are after is this, one speaker = one large image, more speakers = smaller images inside one large one..."

Tools

  • Unit testing with NCrunch (Olav Nybø)

    • "Sometimes when I start using a new tool I find myself wondering why haven't I done this a long time ago, or simply OMG this is just awesome. After I have been using NCrunch for the last couple of weeks this is exactly how I have felt, what a great addon. If you are writing unit tests (which you should do) you simply have to try NCrunch, it is a wonderful addon for Visual Studio. It works for all resonably recent versions of Visual Studio from 2008 through 2012 RC. The Visual Studio 2012 RC Test Explorer has improved the built in features of Visual Studio, but I much prefer the automatic execution of my tests that NCrunch provides and direct feedback on state of my tests right in the code as I write or modify the code. It is simply wonderful to almost instantly get feedback if I break something when working on a piece of code..."