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Gestating your Metro Style App with Cocoon

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF...

Windows Phone designer is named one of country’s most creative

The June issue ofFast Companycarries the magazine’s latest picks for its annual100 Most Creative People in Business, which celebrates “innovators who dare to think differently.” This year one of our own made the coveted list: Windows Phone...

Simple Metro Style Panorama Control for WPF

A simple Metro style Panorama control for WPF.

From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app's journey

Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky'sVisual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one.With Windows 8 and Metro a common question is, "How hard is it to re-use, re-purpose or port...

Metro style – (dis)advantage of Windows Phone 7

Article about advantages and disadvantages of Metro design. You can find basic information about Metro and design principles explained by examples.

The Wrap: Secrets of a No. 1 app, the minds behind Metro, 5 hot apps

This week’s story highlights are dedicated to the hardworking indie coders out there dreaming up and writing cool apps for my Windows Phone. You guys rock. Here’s some inspiration: What’s it take to make your app No. 1? Microsoft’s...

There's an Ogre in my Metro...

I could/should have saved this project for a Metro Monday post, but, well, I couldn't wait on this any longer.This project had me at "... includes binaries of Ogre, FreeImage, Hydrax and SkyX for x64, x86 and ARM in both Debug and Release flavors and is...

Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro

Download Code (1.14 MB)I was thinking about how to write code that will work on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Metro). In theory some of the techniques that could be used are well known. But I wanted to try them out. So I decided to try some things out...

Sharpening your Metro C#/XAML projects with DirectX and SharpDX

I've been keeping on eye on theSharpDXproject for a while, waiting on a killer demo. I think I've found it, and in a way I wasn't really expecting. These post details not only how to use SharpDX, but how to use them in a Windows 8 Metro Style app too!First...