An excellent labs for developers learning how to develop for Win8 have just been published . It's a step by step walk through on how to create Contoso Cookbook application. I've been using these labs for the last few months when working with customers and even for myself when I was starting to learn...

I've been moving along in my development of the FeedPoint app to WinRT. And as a good citizen of the Modern UI I needed to implement app contracts such as search, share and settings which become available for a user via charms. When displaying Accounts flyout in my app I've noticed that it doesn't show...

Tim Heuer has posted a walkthrough on how to install the SQLite runtime package for your WinRT apps and how to use it from your managed or native code: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2012/08/07/updated-how-to-using-sqlite-from-windows-store-apps.aspx

I've recently made an early holiday gift for myself - Samsung Series 7 Tablet . It looks great, with the excellent LED screen, good performance and I love it. Since I installed Windows 8 Preview bits on it, I couldn't pass an opportunity to learn the new platform. In order to do this I've decided to...