Windows Store apps development support

Author: Aaron Xue Introduction There are lots of discussions about using database in Windows Store apps in MSDN forum. These discussions mainly focus on the usage of SQL database. Based on this scenario, we developed a series of articles along with...

Author: Han Xia Public video in Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/OneCode/How-to-Port-Android-apps-to-Windows-Store-apps About this Development Guide If you have been developing Android applications and are interested in building your...

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...

Author: Han Xia Windows Store Applications bring a brand new look and user experience. It’s also a great challenge for the Windows developers who are familiar with the desktop applications development to adapt to the new interface and programing...

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 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: Han Xia Being fast and fluent is the one of the key design principles of developing Windows Store applications. It makes asynchronous programming ubiquitous in this platform. However, when you are using C++ to develop Windows Store apps...

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...

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...

It is generally known that migrating Desktop App to Windows Store App is quite a headache. In .NET, some namespace cannot be used in Windows Store App, so it is very difficult to deal with when you want to migrate code related to these namespaces. In...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Roy Tian Introduction Windows Store app offers lots of methods for data access and storage. And this article will only focus on HTML5/JavaScript programming. In this tutorial, we’ll go over Application Data, File API , HTML5 Web...

Introduction Windows Store app offers lots of methods for data access and storage. And this article will only focus on HTML5/JavaScript programming. In this tutorial, we’ll go over Application Data, File API , HTML5 Web Storage , Indexed Database...

Introduction Windows Store app offers lots of methods for data access and storage. And this article will only focus on HTML5/JavaScript programming. In this tutorial, we’ll go over Application Data, File API , HTML5 Web Storage , Indexed Database...

Q: How to convert streams in .NET? A: Here is the list to show the different stream types conversion. Conversion between Stream and IRandomAccessStream // stream to IRandomAccessStream var randomAccessStream = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream...