[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 more personality into your projects! Using C#/XAML...

[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 have come across the WebView element that shows...

[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 what content the app should be filled with. This...

[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 sample to get a better understanding of how...

[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 nothing similar exists on Windows Phone this blog...

[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’s splash screen is displayed at the center of...

[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. Since the Social Media Dashboard Sample targets...

[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 file so it is very easy to adapt this sample...

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 skriva en? Nu finns det en lösning för...

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 (remote debugging!). The only integrated development...

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. Here you can test different resolutions and orientations...

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 on the Building Windows 8 blog about this. It focuses...