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May 2013 Entries [7]
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In This Issue: Sumit Dutta, Diederik Krols, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Kunal Chowdhury, Iris Classon, GeekChamp, GeekChamp, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, Ross Heise, Gill Cleeren, Jeremy
Foster, Matthias Shapiro, Mike Taulty, Michael Palermo,
Above The Fold:
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WinApp Gestures:
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"Creating touch-based rotation in Windows 8 XAML Store apps"
Diederik Krols
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App Lifetime:
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"Background processing in Windows 8: Part 1: How Windows 8 applications execute"
Gill Cleeren
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Push Notification/Azure:
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"Anatomy of a Push Notification"
Jeremy Foster
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Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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In This Issue: Senthil Kumar B, Dhananjay Kumar, Ishita Kapur, Jeff Prosise, Walt Ritscher, Andrea Boschin, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Nigel Sampson, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown, Xpert360,
Michael Palermo, Den Delimarsky, Diederik Krols, Fons Sonnemans,
Above The Fold:
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Azure/WinApps:
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"Step by Step working with Windows Azure Mobile Service Data in XAML based Windows Store Apps"
Dhananjay Kumar
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WinApp Controls:
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"Custom Layout Controls for Windows Store Apps"
Jeff Prosise
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Semantic Zoom:
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"Customized semantic zoom: an alternative to common grouping"
Andrea Boschin
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Silverlight/WPF:
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"How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight: A Learning Path for New Developers"
Pete Brown
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Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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In This Issue: Michael Palermo, Senthil Kumar B, Sumit Dutta, Tim Heuer, Kirupa Chinnathambi, David Catuhe, Kunal Chowdhury, Iris Classon, Justin Angel, GeekChamp, Joost van Schaik, Joost
van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, Ishita Kapur, Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Foster, Mike Taulty,
Above The Fold:
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Win8:
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"Create a custom user control using JavaScript and WinJS for Windows 8"
David Catuhe
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WP8:
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"Windows Phone 8 navigation part 3 - assembling the MVVMLight app"
Joost van Schaik
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Win8:
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"Windows 8 Storing Data With SQLite"
Jesse Liberty
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WinApps:
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"Source Media"
Jeremy Foster
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Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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In This Issue: Alex Golesh, Senthil Kumar B, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Nigel Sampson, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown, Michael Palermo, Peter Foot, Den Delimarsky, Dhananjay Kumar, Anoop
Madhusudanan, f.lux, Avi Pilosof, XAMLGeek, Jason Farrell, Diederik Krols,
Above The Fold:
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Windows 8 Live Tiles:
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"Windows 8 Live Tiles - take 2"
Alex Golesh
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Windows 8 Live Tiles:
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"A Fluent Approach to Windows Store Tiles"
Jeremy Likness
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Windows 8 Apps:
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"A convention-based data template selector for Windows 8 XAML Store apps"
Diederik Krols
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Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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In This Issue: Senthil Kumar B, Alex Golesh, Senthil Kumar B, Joost van Schaik, Jeff Prosise, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion, Andrej Tozon, Michael Washington, Andrea Boschin, András Velvárt,
Vikram Pendse, Andy Beaulieu, Michael Crump, Manas Patnak,
Above The Fold:
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WP8:
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"What's New in Windows Phone 8 (8 out of 8) - Wallet"
Alex Golesh
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WP8:
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"Windows Phone 8 navigation part 2 - routing, route details,tombstoning and testing"
Joost van Schaik
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Images:
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"#wp8tip: Adapt images to different resolutions"
Andrea Boschin
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Kinect:
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"Kinect Interactions with WPF - Part I: Getting Started"
András Velvárt
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Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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What's New in Windows Phone 8 (8 out of 8)-Wallet
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Alex Golesh rounds out his 8-part WP8 series with this one on the WP8 Wallet ... I've seen some presentations on this, and for the right app, this is very cool.
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Oxygene & WP8 - Introduction
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Senthil Kumar B has an introductory post to programming WP8 apps using Oxygene.NET ... never heard of it? Read on...
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Oxygene & WP8 - Setting up the Development Environment
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In this part 2, Senthil Kumar B talks about setting up the dev environment for developing WP8 apps witn Oygene.NET
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Windows Phone 8 navigation part 2 - routing, route details,tombstoning and testing
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Joost van Schaik's part 2 of this tour-de-force in WP8 navigation is up, continuing where he left off and adding in testing, serializing, and everything you need to get ready for the UI
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Enumerating Cameras and Camera Locations on Your Surface RT
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Jeff Prosise shows how to identify the front- and back-facing cameras on your Surface
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Use PathIO in WinRt to simplify file access
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Walt Ritscher shows a great example of simplifying a boat-load of code into one line using PathIO... now that you know about it, you can too :)
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Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Windows 8
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Laurent Bugnion explains the magic of all the styles available to you right out of the box in any newly-minted WinApp using the MS templates, plus he gives us the source for a pretty cool app to help us with those styles... thanks Laurent!
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Share charm stopped working while debugging Windows Store app?
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Andrej Tozon explains how you got into the dreaded message "Something went wrong with Share" ... and how to get yourself back out of it.
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Understanding The LightSwitch HTML Client
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Michael Washington discusses the LightSwitch HTML Client and a better approach to displaying data
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#wp8tip: Adapt images to different resolutions
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Andrea Boschin provides an attached property you're going to want... an automatic image converter based on the current resolution... too cool.
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Kinect Interactions with WPF - Part I: Getting Started
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András Velvárt has a multi-part series on Kinect Interactions with WPF, talking about the 1.7 release of Kinect... starting with downloading the bits and continuing on... this is a long and well-done tutorial if you're getting ready to get into the Kinect from someone that definitely knows what he's doing
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Introduction to Speech Capabilities in Windows Phone 8 - Part 1
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Vikram Pendse begins a multi-part series on the WP8 Speech capabilities... this part 1 starts of by building a text-to-speech app... pretty darn cool all by itself :)
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Widows 8: The Featured App Effect
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Andy Beaulieu talks about the impact on Downloads, In-App Purchases, and Ad Monetization when your app is a featured app in the store
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Setting up a Command (MVVM) in Windows Phone 8 Video Tutorial
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Michael Crump has a video tutorial up on CodeProject.TV to talk about setting up a Command in MVVM for a WP8 app
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Custom DataPager With PageSize DropDown - Silverlight
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Manas Patnak offers up a dynamic DataPager solution in Silverlight ... dynamic in that the user picks page size right on the pager surface
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Stay in the 'Light!
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In This Issue: Caio Proiete, Alex Golesh, Senthil Kumar B, David Isbitski, Derik Whittaker, GeekChamp, Joost van Schaik , Jesse Liberty, Priya Dandawate , Andrea Boschin, Daniel Egan, Jeremy
Foster, Craig Horsfield, Morten Nielsen, Mike Taulty, Dave Campbell,
Above The Fold:
Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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Detect if the Debugger is attached via JavaScript in a Windows Store app
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Caio Proiete shows how to detect if you're running your WinApp in the debugger in case you want to track some debug msgs or something..
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What??s New in Windows Phone 8 (7 out of 8)??In-App-Purchases
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Alex Golesh talks about In-App Purchases in WP8 and how to set it all up in his 7th of 8 posts on WP8
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Alignment Grid Overlay for Windows Phone Projects in Visual Studio 2012
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Senthil Kumar B follows his previous post about turning on the grid in the VS2012 visual designer with this one on displaying a grid image both ar design and run-time.
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Windows 8 Game Kit updated with Settings Panel
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David Isbitski highlights the changes he's made to the Windows8 Game Kit... check out the sample code, screenshots,and where to find it all on Codeplex
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How to use the Accelerometer in Windows 8 C#/XAML Applications
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Derik Whittaker has a multi-part series up on using the sensors in W8 apps... this post covers using the Accelerometer.
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How to expose properties of a User Control in Windows Phone
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Since GeekChamp posted this article about exposing properties of a UserControl in Windows Phone, there's been some good Comment discussion as well.
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Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1??geocoding, tombstoning??and testing
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This is part 1 of Joost van Schaik's series that covers almost anything useful I can think of with WP8 programming... MVVM, Unit Testing, Navigation, routing, etc, etc...
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Windows 8 Store Applications Vs. WPF Applications
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Jesse Liberty compares the choices we have as devs of programming for the desktop (WPF) and doing WinApps...
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Develop a cutting edge app with NFC
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Priya Dandawate has a great code- and link-filled post on NFC in WP8 up... this is seriously cool stuff...
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps
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Andrea Boschin demonstrates using Typescript in your WinApps ... along with using XAML I might add
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Remote Debugging to your Surface Machine
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Daniel Egan shows the steps needed to get remote debugging lashed up on your ARM device
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Ready to start developing for Windows 8?
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Jeremy Foster lists lots of good information and links to get you cranking on your WinApp development... maybe I should do that to get my app done :)
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Testing your Windows Phone app ?? Part 1
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Craig Horsfield has what looks like a good series started on Phone App testing... he's covering so much in this one, I'm curious what 'additional' areas there are in the next part
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Building A Powerful Platform for Windows Store Mapping apps
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Morten Nielsen details the fun and not of getting a WinRT platform setup for Mapping apps... and you can download their SDK and sample code
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Windows 8, Background Tasks and the ??Noisy?? NetworkStatusChange Trigger
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Mike Taulty discusses Background tasks and the clutter he got when hooking up to a specific Background task and what steps he tood after that
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ValueConverters Intro: BoolToVisibility Converter
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Dave Campbell is starting a beginner's series of XAML development... first up is ValueConverters
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Stay in the 'Light!
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In This Issue: Caio Proiete, Alex Golesh, Senthil Kumar B, Michael Washington, Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, Tim Heuer, Dan Wahlin, Kirupa Chinnathambi, David Catuhe, Steven Hollidge , David
Rousset, Kunal Chowdhury, Tim Heuer, Iris Classon, GeekChamp, John Papa,
Above The Fold:
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LigthSwitch:
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"An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML5 Application "
Michael Washington
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Training:
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"Understanding C# Events, Delegates and Lambdas ?? New Pluralsight Course "
Dan Wahlin
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Training:
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"New Course: The Art of Public Speaking and Effective Presentations"
John Papa
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Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
From WindowsDevNews:
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Detect DEBUG build configuration via JavaScript in Windows Store apps
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Caio Proiete shows how to use conditional compilation in your WinApps, and using a package available from NuGet, it's even easier
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What??s New in Windows Phone 8 (6 out of 8)??Location services and maps
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Alex Golesh's 6th part of his 8 part series on Windows Phone 8 is all about Location Services and Maps ... lots of good WP8 stuff in here for those of you wanting to do locations and mapping
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http://mobileosgeek.com/windows-phone-page-alignment-grid-in-visual-studio-2012/
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Senthil Kumar B, as always, has some great WP8 info to provide, and this time is a quick note on how to show the Alignment Grid feature in VS2012... I just checked before saying so, but this works for Windows 8 Store apps as well.
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An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML5 Application
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In the tutorial style you've come to expect, Michael Washington has a great LightSwitch/HTML5 post up. He begins with a live demo of what he's producing, so that should get you in the mood for following his directions.
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Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime
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Dhananjay Kumar discusses an issue he had with a relative URI in his WinApp, what the problem really was, and his solution
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Part 108 - Windows Phone - Searchable List Box
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Sumit Dutta has a surprisingly small post up on crafting a Searchable ListBox for WP8... and since it's just C#/XAML... it should work anywhere
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Ensuring your Windows store app knows of a language change
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Tim Heuer talks about what to do after you've localized your app to ensure you're really displaying in your user's language of choice.
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Understanding C# Events, Delegates and Lambdas ?? New Pluralsight Course
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Dan Wahlin and Pluralsight are two terms that would need no more discussion even by themselves, but throwing them together and mixing in Dan's training methods on C# Events, Delegates, and Lambdas ... I almost went to watch it before finishing this post!
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All About CSS Transitions
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Kirupa Chinnathambi has a nice long tutorial up about transitions in CSS... check out the samples... they're inline in the article
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Using Visual Studio??s Javascript Memory Analysis tool to find memory leaks on your Windows 8 Javascript app
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David Catuhe walks us through using the VS2012 tools for doing Memory Analysis on your (in this example) W8 JS app
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Slow Silverlight debugging
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Steven Hollidge bails us out of a Silverlight performance issue when debugging
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Coding4Fun: building a Tetris-like game using CSS Grid Layout & Blend 5
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David Rousset uses the building of a Tetris-like game maneuver to show 'the secret behind the CSS Grid Layout' you can get using Blend5... it's just the beginning of the game, but it's a lot of good info, and hey... writing the rest of the code is the rest of the fun, right?
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What is Two-Factor Authentication?
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Kunal Chowdhury discusses two-factor authentication and how it might apply to systems you are currently using
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XAML and Windows 8 Development
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Brought to you by Frank Lavigne, here's a video of Tim Heuer and Jerry Nixon discussion all things XAML
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Compressing and decompressing files in a Windows Store App with GZipStream class
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Iris Classon shows off some sample code for compressing/decompressing files in a WinApp with a GZipStream where the user selects the files
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All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties
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This is GeekChamp's part 3 on Live Tiles... we'll go pick up the other two later, but this one is about Tile Properties that can be used to customize your tiles
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New Course: The Art of Public Speaking and Effective Presentations
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John Papa ... prolific blogger and trainer... also a great speaker (and great guy to boot)... takes a break from his norm at PluralSight with this class on public speaking... I, for one, can definitely use that!
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