Windows App Developer Links - 2012-08-14

posted on 13 Aug 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows 8

  • Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs (Building Windows 8 Blog)

    • "Since RTM on August 1, PC manufacturers have been using the released software to ready new PCs designed for Windows 8. Collectively, we are all very excited by the innovation and creativity that will arrive in market this October. Our engineering collaboration has been better than ever as we work to bring better performance, reliability, and battery life to new PCs designed for Windows 8. We also know many are interested in how we extended this process to a new generation of PCs built on the ARM platform. This post details how we have collaborated on the development of Windows RT and new PCs designed for the operating system..."

Windows 8 App Development

  • Windows 8 apps, what's an Enterprise to do? (Jerry Nixon)

    • "For decades, thousands of enterprises have run their business on custom, line-of-business systems. These can be Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, and even web-based Windows apps. These often include a desktop tier, some service tier, and a backend database. Millions, literally millions, of dollars have been invested into the creation and maintenance of these systems. Should they all be rewritten? Your first answer should be no, but that may not be your final answer..."

  • How to Create a Windows 8 Settings Pane in XAML (Jerry Nixon)

    • "There are five charms in Windows 8: search, share, start, devices, and settings. The reason for the charms is to create a single point of invocation for common tasks. What could be more common and more ubiquitous than settings or options or personalization or preferences? But how do we leverage the setting charm in our Windows 8 apps? ..."

  • Creating a WinRT application step by step: From idea to publishing (Iris Classon)

    • "I would like to welcome you to a code-along series, as I create a WinRT application step by step. The code will be downloadable and I invite you to provide comments and suggestions as we make this application together. This guide is aimed at developers at all levels, so I will keep it simple - but still realistic as the aim is to publish this application. We will first create the application using XAML and C#, and when we are done we will re-create the application using Html and JS..."

  • Metro, Authentication, and the ASP.NET Web API (Stephen Walther)

    • "Imagine that you want to create a Metro style app written with JavaScript and you want to communicate with a remote web service. For example, you are creating a movie app which retrieves a list of movies from a movies service. In this situation, how do you authenticate your Metro app and the Metro user so not just anyone can call the movies service? How can you identify the user making the request so you can return user specific data from the service? ..."

  • From the Windows 8 Camps: GridViews with Inlined Group Headers (Mike Taulty)

    • "One of the questions that got asked at a recent Windows 8 developer camp was around how the XAML GridView control can be used to set up a view that looks something like the one used in the People app ... That is - a GridView that is grouping its data but is then displaying the group headers inline with the rest of the data. This is different from the way you'd see a GridView in the Grid application templates that ship in Visual Studio..."

  • WinRT with Caliburn.Micro and Autofac (Nicolas Humann)

    • "Like most WPF/SL/WP developers, we use the MVVM pattern. Many frameworks help us to implement MVVM such as MVVM Light, Prism, ... My favorite is Caliburn.Micro. It's very powerful and simple. I use it for many projects on WPF / Windows Phone and Silverlight. Since a couple of weeks ago, a fork of Caliburn.Micro is now available on codeplex ... As you know, Caliburn.Micro is very powerful with a DI/IOC container. As default, Caliburn.Micro for WinRT has its own IOC: WinRTContainer. The purpose of this post is to show you how to mix Caliburn.Micro and Autofac..."

  • TwitterRt - Tweeting from within your Windows 8 App (Greg Duncan)

    • "Today's Modern UI Monday post is a library, with source too, that makes tweeting from your Windows 8 app almost too simple and easy. And as an added bonus, you not only get the library, but a tutorial on how to use Twitter's API too. TwitterRt - Tweet from Windows Metro Apps..."

  • Using Fiddler in a Windows 8 Metro Style App (Matthieu Guyonnet-Duluc)

    • "Fiddler is one of the tool that every software developer needs when developing for the web or more particularly for an API. In Stacks I have use it heavily when debugging the OAuth process and signature of the Instapaper API. In Windows 8 your app is running in a sandbox environment. Even your unit test project has a runner which mimics the Windows 8 Metro style app environment. This isolation prevent Fiddler to receive data since the app is forbidden to access the loopback on the local computer..."

Office 2013

  • New file format options in the new Office (Office Next)

    • "Jim Thatcher, Principal Program Manager Lead for Office Standards joins Office Next to discuss file format standards. Interoperability remains an important focus of the product teams, our documentation, interoperability events and our efforts in file format adoption are going strong. You can catch up on the latest Office interoperability news on the Interop team blog..."

Books

  • Release Preview edition of Programming Windows, Sixth Edition available tomorrow [today] (Microsoft Press)

    • "We're ready to release the Release Preview eBook of Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, Sixth Edition. This book focuses exclusively on writing new Windows 8 apps with C# and XAML. (The companion content for this book also includes all the program samples converted to C++.) ... In addition to updated versions of the seven chapters that appeared in the Consumer Preview edition, this release contains six new chapters : Chapter 8, "Animation"; Chapter 9, "Transforms"; Chapter 13, "Touch, Etc."; Chapter 14, "Bitmaps"; Chapter 15, "Printing"; and Chapter 16, "Going Native." Total page count for the Release Preview edition is 579 pages..."