Windows App Developer Links - 2012-08-09

posted on 09 Aug 2012 | App Developer Links

Metro App Development

  • Windows 8 Notifications: Scheduled Notifications (Jim O'Neil)

    • "Hopefully, you've had a chance to review my previous post on Local Notifications as it sets the foundation nicely for taking the next step to scheduling notifications to occur at some point in the future - when the application itself may or may not be actually running. Taking the step from a local notification to a scheduled one is pretty simple; a scheduled notification is more or less a local notification with a specific delivery time attached to it. Given that there is no guarantee that the application will be running when that time arrives, a scheduled notification can actually fire when the application itself isn't running..."

  • Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame - Part 3, Code Migration and Windows 8 Feature Support (Bob Familiar)

    • "In Part 3 I will cover migrating XNA code to Windows 8.and the Windows 8 features you will need to support in order to make your game Windows 8 Store worthy. As my first test of MonoGame, I decided to follow the Game Development Tutorial for XNA Game Studio 4.0 to see if I hit any snags or blocking issues as I progressively built up a simple 2D shooter. The one thing I learned was that the Content Pipeline compiler is not part of the MonoGame implementation (at least not yet). Here is how to solve for this..."

  • Programming the WinJS App Bar-Part 1-The Basics (jbarnes)

    • "I've been doing a lot of Windows 8 HTML5 development lately and wanted to share some key learning's for what I would consider to be one of the most integral parts of every GREAT windows 8 application - The App Bar. To that end, this is the first of a multi-part series on the topic of programming the Windows 8 App Bar - specifically via WinJS (HTML, JS, and CSS)..."

  • How do I get the users current location in a Windows 8 app? (Martin Beeby)

    • "There are instances whilst developing Windows 8 applications in HTML5 when you discover there are two ways to do the same thing. Geolocation is one of those examples. You can either do it the same way you would in a browser like IE9 or Chrome or you could do it the WinJS way. By providing both methods it ensures that we retain all of the browser APIs from Internet Explorer so that code ported from a website will just work, whilst also ensuring JavaScript maintains the same WinRT features and namespaces that are available across C# and C++..."

  • Microsoft DevRadio: Developing for Windows 8 in 1/2 the Time (Part 2) Using a Blank Template (Channel 9)

    • "Michael Palermo is back for today's show as he shows us how to use a Blank Template in Visual Studio to develop an app for Windows 8..."

Internet Explorer 10

  • Internet Explorer 10 Training Kit (Microsoft Download Center)

    • "This training kit covers development specifics for developers who will be targeting Internet Explorer 10 in their development experience. This kit contains documentation and details on things pertinent to developing applications that target features of the Internet Explorer 10 browser..."

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