Windows App Developer Links - 2012-09-27

posted on 26 Sep 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows 8 App Development

  • Location Awareness in about 2 minutes with Windows 8-HTML (Michael Crump)

    • "I was working on a mapping application for Windows 8 - HTML using the Bing SDK and needed to pass the latitude and longitude into it. I began searching for a straightforward way to get the location and had to read through pages of documentation before finally finding it. Here it is in case you want to use it in your own apps..."

  • Working around the navigation animation issues in LayoutAwarePage (Laurent Bugnion)

    • "LayoutAwarePage is a pretty cool add-on to Windows 8 apps, which facilitates greatly the implementation of orientation-aware (portrait, landscape) as well as state-aware (snapped, filled, fullscreen) apps. It has however a few issues that are obvious when you use transformed elements on your page..."

  • Data binding shapes to the WinRT Bing Maps control - coming from Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)

    • "Let me get this straight: I don't want you to wean off Windows Phone development - far from it. It's value proposition is great, and it will become much greater still. This article is yet another way to show you how to carry over code and architecture principles between Microsoft's great tile based operating systems. It's all about re-using skills and code. C# and XAML code that is..."

  • Windows 8-Connecting to SkyDrive (Mike Taulty)

    • "I wrote my first Windows 8 code which connected to SkyDrive the other day so I thought I'd share in case it helps anyone who's doing a similar thing. The main documentation set for Live is on the web so drop that into your favourites if you're going to be working with this API set..."

  • Windows 8 Development Snack: InvalidOperationException for Share & Settings (Robert MacLean)

    • "With one of my earliest apps I kept having a problem with a COM exception being raised, when trying to setup the Share & Settings event handlers. A key factor is it didn't happen all the time. I had it the following code on the constructor of my ViewModel class..."

  • Using WinJS.xhr to Fetch This and That (Jeremy Foster)

    • "... The popular thing to do now, in fact, is to implement websites using a single page architecture where the user does one primary request and response to get the core document, and then the rest of his or her time spent in the app consists only of these tiny requests/response cycles that bring just what's necessary. This is how Windows 8 apps using HTML/JS work - they are single page apps..."

  • How I price my Windows Phone apps (The Windows Phone Developer Blog)

    • "One key question some Windows Phone developers struggle with when putting an app on sale is: how much should I charge? ... I know something about the pricing dilemma because in addition to working on the Windows Phone Store business team, I've published more than 20 apps in the Store myself, many of them paid. In this post I'll explore some of the things I consider when trying to determine the best price for my own apps, and share some suggestions on how to take advantage of Dev Center's pricing and analysis features..."

  • What web developers need to know about IE10 compatibility (Jerry Nixon)

    • "New browsers introduce new ways of thinking. IE10 is no different. There are compatibility concerns to make your site look awesome everywhere. So where do you start to learn about this stuff? How about right here!..."

  • GoingNative 11: Inside Fresh Paint - A C++ + XAML + DirectX Windows Store App (Channel 9)

    • "... In this episode we will meet the developers behind Fresh Paint, Subha Bhattacharyay, Adam Szofran, and Kaushik Barat. Being native developers, they built their Windows Store app using C++. Being modern native Windows developers, they used DirectX and XAML (including DirectX running on XAML surfaces) to generate a beautiful UX with very realistic painting experiences - you can literally watch the paint dry . The team shares many details that should spark your imagination for writing compelling C++ Windows Store Apps using DirectX and XAML..."

  • Windows 8 Developers - Do you "Blend for Visual Studio"? (Nishanth Anil)

    • "Newest release of Blend now supports UX authoring for Windows 8 store apps both in XAML and HTML. The good news is that if you are a Windows 8 store apps developer then you can make use of Blend for Visual Studio 2012 which is included as part of the Visual Studio 2012 installation. More to it - you get this cake even if you download the Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 which is of-course free!..."

  • Blend for Visual Studio Workspace (XAML) (Nishanth Anil)

    • "In my previous post, I introduced you to Blend for Visual Studio and talked about Project templates and Item templates. Now that you are set with your templates its time to understand blend workspace better. This is going to be your playground for designing and creating some stunning animations. This post will concentrate on the workspace that Blend provides when your project is in XAML..."