Windows Store apps development support

Introduction We will post a blog series to introduce multi-threading programming in Windows Store app. In this blog series, we will walk through a sample together to demonstrate which multi-threading APIs can be used, how to create a thread, and...

Introduction In the past decade, a lot of web applications were written in ASP.NET Web Forms. It is no doubt that many developers want to port those applications to Windows Store app. This article provides some guidelines and a sample solution to simplify...

Introduction In the past few years, a lot of web applications were written in ASP.NET MVC. It is undoubtable that many developers want to port those applications to Windows Store app. This article provides some guidelines and a sample solution to simplify...

Author: Rafe Wu Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/OneCode/How-to-Port-iOS-apps-to-Windows-Store-apps About this Development Guide If you are iOS developer and interested in building your first applications for Windows 8, this guide...

Introduction In recent years, a lot of applications were written in Silverlight. It is undoubtable that many developers want to port those applications to Windows Store app. This article provides some guidelines and a sample solution to simplify the...

Introduction We will post a blog series to introduce multi-threading programming in Windows Store app. In this blog series, we will walk through a sample together to demonstrate which multi-threading APIs can be used, how to create a thread, and...

Author: Rafe Wu Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/OneCode/How-to-Port-iOS-apps-to-Windows-Store-apps Microsoft released a new version Visual Studio Developer tools which brings a user-friendly, high productivity development environment...

Author :Rafe Wu Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/OneCode/How-to-Port-iOS-apps-to-Windows-Store-apps Windows 8 uses a novel user interface called Windows Store. It sets itself apart with its clean and simple design and emphasizes color...

Author: Rafe Wu Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/OneCode/How-to-Port-iOS-apps-to-Windows-Store-apps Technically speaking, both the iOS and the Windows Store applications allow only one application to execute in the foreground at a time...

Author: Rafe Wu Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/OneCode/How-to-Port-iOS-apps-to-Windows-Store-apps Windows 8 features a very comprehensive system of managing data for applications. This section compares the Application Preference features...