In Silverlight and WPF, if you wanted to update the UI from a thread you had launched, it was important that the UI update be executed on the UI thread, lest you get an invalid-cross-thread-access error. You could ensure this by initially getting a...

I'm trying to replicate a tab control in the Windows 8 //BUILD release. I’m not talking about your traditional tab control with grey tabs and a static appearance; rather something that we’ve seen throughout the demos at //BUILD; a set of clean...

In Windows 8 I want to have a file in my solution which is packaged as part of the application, then read at runtime. It’s not immediately obvious how to do this because the app is running in an environment we’re not used to, and using StorageFile...

Just getting started with Win8 development, and will note what I learn in a series of posts. I'm finding that ObservableCollection isn't being honored by XAML elements in the //BUILD version of the tools. More specifically, either it's not firing...