Articles having tag: WINDOWS 8

Getting Started with CSS Media Queries

If you've ever printed a page and noticed that it looks different than the actual page displayed in the browser you've more than likely witnessed a CSS media type in action. By using CSS media types such as "print", backgrounds, navigation bars, and...

Building Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast

By Jaime Rodriguez

Two weeks ago, we announced an all day training for those Building metro style apps with C++ .. Event sold out within a few days, and we got a lot of requests for it to be recorded (or broadcasted live).. I am happy to announce that the event will now Read...

Running Windows App Certification Kit (WACK) tool from Command Prompt

By nmarun

This article is written on a pre-release version. Things mentioned below are bound to change in future releases. In order to understand this blog, I recommend you read the Microsoft's whitepaper first. I have run the WACK tool quite a few times from the...

Using Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 Together

By brentonhouse

So I broke down and installed Windows 8 Preview on a machine... Not the experience I was expecting. I hope that this is nothing like the final version because Windows 8 Preview looks horrible and it is even harder to navigate. Anyways, I decided to see...

Knowing your Metro Style App package details

By nmarun

<strong>This article is written on a pre-release version. Things mentioned below are bound to change in future releases.</strong> The package details of your application can be read through the Windows.ApplicationModel.Package namespace. So I create...

Obtaining screen resolution scale details in Windows 8 Metro Style App

By nmarun

If you want to know the current screen resolution and the pixels per inch (PPI) scale that your app is having to deal with on any device, use ResolutionScale. This is an enum with the following values: For C#: I have named the grid as BaseGrid and I can use...

Announcing the Building Windows 8 apps with C++ Windows camp

By Jaime Rodriguez

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ . If you are a beginner C++ developer wanting to learn about the writing Metro style apps, an Read More......(read...

Wanted!! Great Windows 8 Metro style apps

By Jaime Rodriguez

Tuesday, the Windows Store blog announced that in the next significant Windows 8 preview release they will be expanding their global coverage with 33 additional app submission locales for developers. As Antoine Leblond alluded to in the post, our store Read...

Accessing files on local machine in Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using JavaScript and HTML5

By nmarun

This article is written on pre-release version of the software and is subject to change in future release. Here I'll be reading a list of files from the client machine and displaying it on the page. I created a new blank JavaScript Metro Style App project....

Code and Slides: Getting Started Building Windows 8 HTML/JavaScript Metro Apps

By dwahlin

This presentation is from a talk I gave at the spring 2012DevConnectionsconference. It covers some of the key topics you need to know to get started building Windows 8 HTML/JavaScript Metro apps including navigation options, UI surfaces that can be used, controls,...