What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Navdeep Singh — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:47:57 GMT

Hey Sir You Can Provide Aditional Features Like ,Add Customize Start Window Backgroud,Provide Option for Changing your start background ,by selecting files from your libraries,.XBOX Does Not work well on window 8 pls sir can change the setting of XBOX on window 8, Such as User can play any game with any need of console.Add New inbuilt appplication on window 8,change the task bar skin it's looking like window 7,pls must change it, Mainly provide an programming language (such as c++,c,)Inbuilt .that'z why everyone can get better knowledge of coding for making window's application,

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Stacey Reiman — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:57:40 GMT

Are you going to be accepting Adobe Air apps in the future? If not, will you be posting some tutorials to help Adobe devs convert existing code to Visual Studio? While working within Flash Pro or AS3 would be ideal, even some good tutorials on how to get your old Flash stuff into C++ or whatever would be awesome, as I think the new Surface release is not something any serious app developer should ignore.

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Raymond — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:09:41 GMT

PLEASE make some decent tutorials on making a Metro app. I have been working for MONTHS and I still cannot figure out how to update a damn tile! The tutorials are fragmented and confusing! It's like we've only been handed a piece of a big pie! I cannot stand this. PLEASE make some decent, full and fleshed out tutorials, PLEASE.

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

ZIM — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:05:00 GMT

COME ON GUYS WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THE CONSUMER PREVIEW APPS OFF THE STORE??? PINBALL FX AND HYDRO THUNDER WERE

THE BEST> PLEASE PUT THEM BACK ON . if any one knows how I can bring them from my old folder please email me jziemba1@gmail.com

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Jake Sabulsky [MSFT] — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:53:28 GMT

@Pedro

In the Release Preview if you install Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate then you will have the oData components included and can use the “Add Service Reference” features within Visual Studio to create proxies to your oData endpoint. Currently in the Release Preview this functionality is limited to the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio. Going forward we are exploring shipping oData support (including tools support) as a stand-alone package. This method will enable functionality for Visual Studio Express for Windows 8 as well as the professional versions (Pro, Premium, Ultimate) of Visual Studio.

@Jamie

That's great feedback. With the variety of form factors that Windows 8 will ship keyboard shortcuts will be essential for many Metro style app users. We'll look into how we can evangelize this better in the blog. In the meantime these articles on Responding to keyboard input: msdn.microsoft.com/.../Hh868246(v=win.10).aspx

And Implementing keyboard accessibility: msdn.microsoft.com/.../Hh868161(v=win.10).aspx

Have some more details on keyboard shortcut guidance in Metro style apps.

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

danicomas — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:34:39 GMT

Suggestions for Windows 8 final version:

www.ingens-networks.com/.../Windows-8-Sugerencias-para-la-version-final.aspx

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Jamie Thomson — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:41:19 GMT

Hi,

One thing that has displeased me slightly about a lot of the apps in the Store so far is that they don't make good use of keyboard shortcuts (the various twitter apps that are there are a classic example of this). It would be great if you guys on the developer blog could evangelize the benefit of keyboard shortcuts - perhaps not in a dedicated blog post (although that would be nice) but mention the value of keyboard shortcuts when writing other posts.

Regards

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:08:10 GMT

What it changed is that my display driver hung up now when I lunch Windows Simulator. Thanks for that annoying bug...

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

John Michael Hauck — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:28:26 GMT

Thank you for the post.

It is clearly too late now, but I thought I would toss in a comment about the new HighPriority roaming app setting. Because the design allows only a single setting, every time we change any component of high-priority data, the entire composite needs to be transferred. What might have made more sense is to allow multiple HighPriority... settings to enjoy this privilege. Then, only the changed portions of the HighPriority set need to be transferred.

There are probably some down-sides to this that I am missing. In any case, thanks for the tip and the sample code in Scenario9.xaml.cs.

re: What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview

Pedro — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:22:22 GMT

How can we consume OData from Windows 8?

Do we have a Microsoft.Data.Services.Client for WinRT?