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[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Simon Jäger. For an introductory blog post, click here ] Users love animations - it’s a great and a not very time consuming way of introducing...

[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Simon Jäger. For an introductory blog post, click here ] If you have checked out the twitter page in the Social Media Dashboard Sample you might...

[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Peter Bryntesson. For an introductory blog post, click here ] The Social Media Dashboard sample is based on JSON configuration file that determines...

[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Peter Bryntesson. For an introductory blog post, click here ] Introduction This blog post will try to dissect the code in the Social Media Dashboard...

[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Peter Bryntesson. For an introductory blog post, click here ] The Social Media Dashboard sample implements the search contract in Windows 8. As...

[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Peter Bryntesson. For an introductory blog post, click here ] When you start a Windows 8 app, the first thing that happens is that the application...

[This post is a part of a series of post about the Social Media Dashboard Sample . This post was written by Peter Bryntesson. For an introductory blog post, click here ] Portable Class Library is a great feature for writing cross platform code in .NET...

[This post is the first in a series of posts about the Social Media Dashboard Sample .] The social media dashboard sample (for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8) consumes various social feeds and displays them in your app. It is driven from a JSON configuration...

Har du ideér på en Windows 8 app men vet inte riktigt hur du ska få till ett backend i Azure? Har du en nästan färdig Windows 8 app som skulle bli så mycket bättre om du hade en molnservice, men du har ine tid att...

Back in the good old days when I started developing for Windows the following was true: I was a LOT younger. The year was 1987. The Windows version was 1.01. The language was C. The state of the art debugging was connecting another machine via RS-232...

It’s a great time for an old C++ developer like me. Never before has there been a version of Visual Studio with so much new stuff. Where do we start? Full support for developing Metro Style apps, including native access to the XAML stack and the only...

If you write a Windows 8 Metro Style app you will use the new WinRT framework (you will use .NET as well if you program in C#/VB). One design principle in WinRT is that every operation that potentially can take more than 50 ms is exposed as an asynchronous...

Search has been greatly improved and extended in Visual Studio 2012. First, Quick Find and the assorted dialogs have a new minimized look. As you see, the Quick Find window takes up minimal screen estate. Also, it searches incrementally and highlights...

If you want to write a Windows 8 Metro Style application, you can chose between several programming languages. Of particular interest is the ability to write a native Windows 8 Metro style app in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. This gives HTML developers the unprecedented...

We’ve all been there. We are working in a semi-large or large project and need to implement a certain functionality. We are (as usual) in quite a hurry but we know that this has been solved somewhere else in the code. We locate that fragment, copy it...

Team Foundation is a great ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) Product that just has tons and tons of cool features. In Visual Studio 2012 you can access most of those features via the excellent Team Explorer windows that sits next to Solution Explorer...

When you are developing your Metro Style app it’s very important to test in all resolutions and orientations. Ideally you would test on all hardware that your app will run on, but that is not feasible. The solution? Run your program in the simulator....

Ever done a Find in Files in a Visual Studio solution, stepping through the search results? Irritated that you now have many files open for editing that you are in fact not editing at all? I am. Constantly. I usually end up hitting Windows –> Close...

Last week we saw the release of Windows Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC, Here in Sweden I will hold a seminar on what’s new in Visual Studio as part of Microsoft’s Sommarkollo . I will focus on three subjects: What’s new in VS 2012. A lap around...

You know how it used to be: A new version of Visual Studio is released and you are eager to try it out. You install the new version side-by-side with your current version and try it out with a few sample projects. Great. Now you want to try it on *real...

Implementing contracts in your Windows 8 Metro Style app is crucial to make your app in integral part of Windows 8. I think the apps that are most successful in implementing contracts are the ones that will be successful.   Nice to see a blog post...

[Prisjakt – The Story is a series of blog posts about our experiences helping Prisjakt/PriceSpy to write a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Today’s post talks implementing the search contract and implementing deep linking...

[ Prisjakt – The Story is a series of blog posts about our experiences helping Prisjakt to write a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Today’s post talks about how we designed the PriceSpy/Prisjakt app and is authored by Tess...

[ Prisjakt – The Story is a series of blog posts about our experiences helping Prisjakt to write a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Today’s post shows a few of the way we adapted the Prisjakt/PriceSpy app to different resolutions...

[Prisjakt – The Story is a series of blog posts about our experiences helping Prisjakt/PriceSpy to write a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Today’s post talks about the JSON and the different ways data binding is accomplished...