Windows App Developer Links - 2012-12-17

posted on 17 Dec 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

  • 10 Things Silverlight Devs Need to Know About the Windows Runtime (Michael Crump)

    • "Now that the final versions of Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 have shipped, most Silverlight developers are looking at ways to translate their existing skill set to Windows Runtime (WinRT) apps built with XAML. Because you're already familiar with XAML, you need to understand what the Windows Runtime consists of, and how it's different than what you're used to..."

  • Building WinRT components that implement interfaces with C# (Olivier ROUIT)

    • "In a previous article I showed how to create WinRT components in C++/CX that implement a set of interfaces. For demonstration I provided several implementations of the same interface in different components. This article extends the exercise and will show you how to create WinRT components in C#, i.e., .NET that implement interfaces that have been defined in a C++/CX Windows store DLL..."

  • Prism on .NET 4.5 and the road to Windows 8 apps (Blaine Wastell)

    • "This blog post discusses our plans for Prism to run on .NET 4.5 and our plans to create guidance for Windows 8 Line of Business (LOB) apps..."

  • Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro - Getting Started (Phillip Haydon)

    • "So I've been learning Windows 8 development recently, specifically with C#/XAML, and Caliburn.Micro for the MVVM goodness. This is all brand new stuff for me, never done any WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone dev. So I figured it's a good chance to blog what I'm learning. In this post I want to show you how to get up and running..."

  • Walkthough: Use XAML's 3D PlaneProjection to Open a Window and See What's Inside (Jerry Nixon )

    • "Here we go again, down the fun road with XAML. I love this demo! This time, since it's Christmastime, I'll throw together a Christmas-themed demo for you! Of what fun it is to code in XAML and Expression Blend, hey! :) ..."

  • Binding MediaElement to a ViewModel in a Windows 8 Store App (Johan Danforth)

    • "If you want to play a video from your video-library in a MediaElement control of a Windows Store App and tried to bind the Url of the video file as a source to the MediaElement control like this, you may have noticed it's not working as well for you..."

Windows Phone App Development