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Getting Started with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
There are plenty of posts around on how to actually install the Windows 8 consumer Preview, so I’m not going to both covering that right now, but there were a couple of really useful resources that I wanted to highlight. First up is some great design resources for designing the user experience for Metro style [...]
Unable to activate Windows Tailored Application
Whilst developing Metro-style applications (quite possibly limited to XAML apps) you may be unfortunate enough to receive the error message “Unable to Activate Windows Tailored Application” when you try to run the application from Visual Studio. You’ll probably find that other applications that worked previously still do so, but this one won’t budge. In my [...]
Metro Style App Samples
There are a large number (about 200) samples for HTML5+JavaScript and XAML (C#, VB, and C++) on MSDN at the moment. You can sort and filter the apps to find something relevant to the task at hand, or you can download a single sample pack that contains all of the samples. Right now the documentation [...]
Using Custom Fonts in XAML Apps
The first Metro application that I started to build for Windows 8 was a simple digital clock; partly because I thought this was a good simple application to get started with, partly because it would be handy combined with the docking station, and partly because I’d already written one for Windows Phone. However, the first [...]
Don’t Forget!
Parking Tickets The current approach for reminders works on the assumption that you are using a “pay-and-display”-style car park where you pay in advance to park for a certain amount of time. Another option would be to track how long you’ve been parked and calculate what your current parking fee is for the shopping centre-style [...]
Creating Copyable Read-Only Text
Ignoring any debates or discussions about when it’s going to arrive if you haven’t got it already, but the recently-released update for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) code-named NoDo (apparently short for No Donuts) brought the much discussed copy and paste feature. How Does it Work? The copy and paste feature has been available in the [...]
Tags: code, copy, nodo, passwordbox, paste, styles, textbox, webbrowser
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