I finally found the code I created when I ported Mike Snow's Silverlight snowflake "game" into a Windows 8 C#/XAML "game." See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jimblizzard/archive/2012/05/21/porting-a-simple-silverlight-game-loop-to-windows-8-metro-style.aspx/ (Yes I had checked my Release Preview-based code...

The other evening I went on the hunt for a XAML/C#-based example of a game loop. I ran into a couple of OLD blog posts by Mike Snow . Naturally it caught my eye, simply because of his last name. In his posts he described game loop based on Silverlight 2. OK. Silverlight uses XAML, and the code was...

The slides and hands-on labs materials (both JavaScript and C#) are now available for download. Trot on over to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29854 Happy Windows 8 developing! --bliz (@snowstormlife)

My Orlando Windows 8 Dev Camp co-presenter, Dave Isbitski, has written an excellent post about it . Bottom line, today you need an invite “token” to register . So how do you get one? Take a look a Dave’s post . --bliz

Yesterday I blogged about the live webcast series on Windows 8 Metro style development that’s currently underway. Today I want to make sure you’re aware that we have a Metro Accelerator Lab coming up at the end of May here in Tampa . Joe Healy and I are looking forward to seeing you there...

. . . But wish you could? You’re in luck! Microsoft is going to be delivering the content via webcasts, beginning TODAY (May 14) at 11:30 AM Eastern. Too late for today’s session. Here is the session list via Jamie . Good lunchtime feasting! (for Eastern Time Zone anyway) [UPDATE...

Have all the Metro style apps and samples that you’ve created all gotten a disease of little X’s in the lower right corner of every tile, like an outbreak of the chicken pox? What the …? And if you try to launch one of the apps you created, do you see this screen? “Store...

Do you have what it takes to create a world-class Metro style app? Would you like to have your app available in the Windows store on “Day 0”? If you do and you live in Florida , shoot an email to me ( jim.blizzard@microsoft.com ) or Joe Healy ( jhealy@microsoft.com ). If you don’t...

During one of my sessions from the Windows 8 Developer Camp I talked about how easy it is for current .NET developers to write Windows 8 Metro style apps. One slide in particular showed how easy it is to interact with devices, etc., through the Windows Runtime in Windows 8 as compared to how difficult...

The Windows Store blog has an important post on deploying Metro style Windows 8 apps to businesses. Very much worth reading – twice. From the blog post : When it comes to building a Metro style app for business users, the first thing you should consider—whether you are a developer...

At the Windows 8 Developer Camp last week in Ft. Lauderdale, a couple of people asked me if there’s a way to control which apps are searchable (which ones show up in the app search list), and which apps are allowed to be share targets . The answer to both is, “Yep.” In Windows...