Windows App Developer Links - 2012-07-10

posted on 09 Jul 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows 8

  • Upcoming Windows Milestones Shared with Partners at WPC (The Windows Blog)

    • "Today in Toronto, Canada, at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller spoke to thousands of partners from around the world. She shared some exciting new details regarding Windows that I wanted to pass along. For the first time, we provided details on Windows 8 availability. Tami confirmed that Windows 8 is on track to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) the first week of August. For enterprise customers with Software Assurance benefits, they will have full access to Windows 8 bits as early as August. Additionally, she noted that RTM is when we'll be turning on the commerce platform so that developers can start earning money for their apps - we'll have more to share on the Windows Store for developers blog soon. Of course, right now with the Windows 8 Release Preview, all apps are still free for people to try..."

Visual Studio 2012

  • Announcing Achievements For Visual Studio 2012 RC (Channel 9)

    • "We are excited to announce a version of Visual Studio Achievements that works on Visual Studio 2012 RC. Running this version of the extension will enable you to unlock a new achievement called Brave New World, which is unlocked when you create or open a project when running Visual Studio 2012 RC on Windows 8 RP. Expect lots more Windows 8 oriented achievements coming soon! ..."

Metro App Development

  • Tips and Tricks for C# Metro developers: Handling the virtual keyboard (David Catuhe)

    • "As we saw in a previous post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2012/07/03/tips-and-tricks-for-c-metro-developers-the-flyout-control.aspx) it is really easy to create a flyout control. But if this control is used to type text, you must consider handling the virtual keyboard in order to move your flyout so that it can always be visible..."

  • How to Capture Images w/ the WebCam in WinRT (C#) applications (Derik Whittaker)

    • "When building WinRT applications you will want to implement the ability to capture images/video's from the onboard webcamera in order to use in your application. Fortunately for you this is very easy to accomplish. We will walk through how to do this in this post. Step 1: Enable access to the web camera..."

  • Play sounds in Metro-style apps (Hermit Dave)

    • "Wordastic for Windows 8 is close to completion. As a part of enhancing the app, I updated word count from 5k to 25k. I also added some sounds. Bach in the background and some sounds depending upon correct user guess. So I did it all and I came to the sounds... figured out how to play background music but was not how to play multiple sounds. Here's what I did..."