Windows 8 app developer blog

Insights on building Windows Store apps by the Windows 8 engineering team

Introducing the Windows App Builder blog!

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that we’re bringing the Windows 8 app developer and Windows...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 06/19/2013

Optimizing ListView item rendering

For many Windows Store apps written in JavaScript that work with collections, cooperating well with...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 06/17/2013

All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript)

When writing Windows Store apps in JavaScript, you encounter these constructs called promises as...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 06/11/2013

Join the Game On Virtual Event

Games are a key class of apps in the Windows Store. If you’re looking to build a Windows Store game,...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 06/07/2013

Credential Locker: Your solution for handling usernames and passwords in your Windows Store app

If you haven’t yet heard about the Credential Locker that's available for Windows Store apps, it’s...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 05/30/2013

Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps

By tying together a user’s location to the business logic of your app, you can easily provide app...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 05/22/2013

Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience

Since launching the Windows Dev Center in October, 2011, we’ve worked closely with developers and...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 05/15/2013

Register now for //build/ 2013!

Last week Steve Guggenheimer announced //build/ 2013. The conference is taking place June 26-28,...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 04/02/2013

Alive with Activity, Part 3: Push notifications and Windows Azure Mobile Services

In Part 1 of this series we explored what “aliveness” means to a user and how apps participate in...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 03/13/2013

Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles

In Part 1 of this series we explored the nature of tile updates, badge updates, and toast...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 03/04/2013

Alive with activity, Part 1: Working with tiles, badges, and toasts

Live tiles and the related capabilities of badges, toast notifications, and push notifications are...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 02/21/2013

Crash reports help you certify your Windows Store app

As the Windows Store continues to grow and offer app builders a significant market opportunity, we...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 01/28/2013

Introducing Windows Store App Labs for app builders

Today we introduce Windows Store App Labs in more than 30 cities around the world for all app...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 10/22/2012

Building a custom control using XAML and C#

You may already know that one of the most powerful features of the Windows 8 XAML platform is the...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 10/15/2012

Building a custom control using the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS)

If you have developed Windows Store apps using JavaScript, you most likely have encountered the...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 10/11/2012

Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012

Windows 8 was designed to work better in more locales all over the world. Working with developers...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 10/03/2012

Creating a great printing experience in Windows 8

When we reimagined Windows, we took the opportunity to rethink all the different aspects of printing...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 09/25/2012

Make your HTML/JavaScript app accessible

One of the hallmarks of a Windows 8 app is that accessibility is built into the platform. You can...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 09/19/2012

Integrating your cloud service with the file picker contracts

In the past, users organized, shared, and maintained their documents, photos, videos, and music on...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 09/12/2012

Add cloud to your app with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Great Windows Store apps are connected. They use live tiles, authenticate users with single sign-on...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 08/28/2012

Windows 8 RTM is available for developers

Two weeks ago we announced that Windows 8 released to manufacturing (RTM). Since then we’ve...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 08/15/2012

Exposing .NET tasks as WinRT asynchronous operations

In the blog post Diving Deep with Await and WinRT, we discussed the new async and await keywords in...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 06/14/2012

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