Windows App Developer Links - 2012-10-26

Windows 8

• Windows reimagined. #Windows8 (Blogging Windows)

  • "The world has been waiting for Windows 8. And we are excited to deliver Windows 8 to the world. Today events are happening all across the globe to celebrate tomorrow's general availability of Windows 8..."

• [Limited Time Offer] Microsoft gives you Windows 8 Media Center Pack for free (If you're already on Win8 Pro) (Greg Duncan)

  • "If you've already got Windows 9 Pro, but don't have Media Center Pack yet, here's you chance to get it free; Directly from Microsoft, this is not some kind of contest or anything but something direct from them..."

Windows 8 App Development

• Windows Store Apps and XAML Based Printing-Rough Notes (Mike Taulty)

  • "Printing is one of those areas where the WinRT platform has the core support and then the UI technologies (XAML/HTML) handle it differently and I'm only going to do a sketched walkthrough here of a few things I learned in dealing with printing in the XAML environment..."

• MSDN study links for exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Metro style Apps using C# (Andreas Hammar)

  • "Microsoft have announced the exams for becoming MCSD on Windows 8, they are now in beta stage. I here present to you links for the skills measured for the exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Metro style Apps using C#, the second exam towards MCSD: Windows Metro Style Apps Using C#..."

• Easily create light themed styles for your Win8 Settings Flyout (Shawn Kendrot)

  • "Recently Tim Heuer made a change to the SettingsFlyout to set the background to white. ... If you are using the default dark theme then the new background on the flyout becomes a nightmare. ... There has to be an easy way to get light themed styles at runtime, right? I couldn't find one, but I did find a way to easily create them..."

• Windows Store - Navigation using C# and XAML (Sumit Dutta)

  • "In this article I will talk about Navigation of app in Windows Store using C#/Xaml..."

• Microsoft DevRadio: Developing for Windows 8 in 1/2 the Time (Part 10) Using Event Handlers (Channel 9)

  • "In today's episode, Michael Palermo shows us how easy it is to attach Event Handlers in our JavaScript . A pretty common practice for your Windows 8 apps, watch this short demo and learn some various techniques to do it..."