Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! http://files.channel9.msdn.com/thumbnail/19472635-a548-4f4e-a7ea-f5e89b48aa1e.png Channel 9 - Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! Hey folks, I’m sure a few of you have found it already, but there is a Channel 9 application in the Windows Store. The app lets you access all sorts of Channel 9 content, from the most recent to browsing back through past events, shows and series. You can find the app in the store by searching on 'Channel', or by going over to the 'Music & videos' category, clicking on the category title (to show all apps) and it will be listed right there. The app, written by Cara on our team, is a HTML/JavaScript app that handles all of the relevant Windows 8 integration points that we could think of, including: Search (open up the charms and click Search to look for content across all of the events, shows, series and blogs on Channel 9) Play To (while playing a video, open the charms menu again… if you have any play to devices configured you can shoot the video over to them). I’ve used this already to make a video play right onto the screen of another computer in the house, but I’m sure you can figure out some cooler uses Share (if you have any apps installed that let you share, then you can go to a Channel 9 post, open up the charms and click Share). Easy way to try this out is to make sure you have an email account set up, then sharing through email will be one of your choices! More features will be coming over time, and perhaps we can even post some early releases up here for people who would be interested in trying them out! Thanks for installing, and let us know what you think! Update: If you are browsing Channel 9 in IE 10 (Metro), then you can get to the app a whole lot quicker than going to the store and searching. Just bring up the address bar and there will be a circular button with the C9 guy in it... click that to either jump to the app's entry in the store or to launch the app if it is already installed. More details on how it works are available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/10/20/connect-your-web-site-to-your-windows-8-app.aspx en Sun, 26 May 2013 05:19:58 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 05:19:58 GMT Rev9 Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app!

posted by Frank

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634703850458602214 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:30:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634703850458602214 Frank Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! Search function doesn't work very well. For example, searching for "PING" only brings up the current episode. Also scrolling using the mouse wheel does not work. Otherwise great start.

posted by Sadatay

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634703972001534703 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:53:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634703972001534703 Sadatay Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! @Sadatay: I thought Sinofsky say "write for touch get mouse & keyboard for free" I guess that wasn't 100% accurate.

On a positive note: Full screen HTML5 video, YEAH! Nice job.

posted by DeathByVisualStudio

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704079434831103 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:52:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704079434831103 DeathByVisualStudio Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! Great start!

posted by Maddus Mattus

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704129675538399 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:16:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704129675538399 Maddus Mattus Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! @DeathByVisualStudio: It wasn't that hard I think to get the mouse wheel scrolling working (it is horizontal scrolling that was needed. I think you would get vertical scrolling for free as expected), but we didn't notice until after this version was published.

posted by Duncanma

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704203706418599 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:19:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704203706418599 Duncanma Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! If the app gets hibernated(or shutdown by os) while playing a video, it gets resetted. also, background playing the audio would be nice. It's more a general os multitasking issue when playing media(a video should not essentially stop when navigating away).

posted by philjay

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704297780397360 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:56:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704297780397360 philjay Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! The horizontal scrolling with the mouse will be in the next update. I don't use a scrolling mouse so I didn't notice it was missing (oops) but it wasn't hard to add. That's good feedback about the search and the video getting reset when the computer goes into hibernate - I'll look into those issues.

posted by Cara9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704519449061930 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:05:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704519449061930 Cara9 Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! Another suggestion about horizontal scrolling that's bugging me. (not only in your app but others)

1) On the main page, scroll right so that something like the "Shows" group is near the middle of the screen. The horizontal scrollbar position should be about 2/3rds of the way across now.

2) Click on one of the items in the Shows group.

3) Once the item is opened, click the Back button.

When you return to the main page, the horizontal scrollbar is reset to the far left position when, in my opinion, it should be at the same place it was at the end of step 1.

posted by Int64

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704588445791636 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:00:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704588445791636 Int64 Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! I wish it had an option for a black (dark) background. If possible, please add this feature. Wink

posted by alirezanoori

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704672019358713 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:20:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634704672019358713 alirezanoori Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! This app is really nice, but I usually download the hires mp4 version of the videos to watch in my large screen plasma TV during lunch time and I couldn't find a link to download the files in this app.

I use Window 8 CP in my production environment and if this app had the download links, it would be superb!

 Will you add the downloading feature to this app? 

posted by eduquint

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634705225064087080 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:41:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634705225064087080 eduquint Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! @Int64: This bugs me as well! I'm glad to hear someone else noticed it too so I can justify taking the time to make it work that way.

@eduquint: Funny you should ask because there is actually a download flyout there in the code but it's commented out because I couldn't quite get the functionality working before we pushed it to the Store. By default, it tries to open an instance of IE to download the video, which makes sense because we are giving it a URL, but it seems strange as a user experience for this particular case so we need to figure out how to just prompt to save the file locally without it using IE.

@alirezanoori: It is a bit vanilla right now but that's mostly because our real designers have been extremely busy and it was left up to a dev (read: me Smiley) to design. I'm sure the UI will be improved.

Thanks for all of the feedback, we've just scratched the surface with this app so it's great to get more ideas.

posted by Cara9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634705362729788417 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:31:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634705362729788417 Cara9 Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! Where is the app? running Windows 8 Release Preview and it is nowhere to be found.

posted by Caleb Scribner

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634744758955044866 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:51:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634744758955044866 Caleb Scribner Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! @Caleb Scribner: Yep, we aren't in the store at the moment. First party apps (apps from Microsoft) have to go through an internal process and they didn't get to our app in time for the release preview's launch. We are working on the app though and do hope to get it into the store as soon as possible. I'm also trying to see if it is possible for us to just post the app package up here on Channel 9, for people to 'side load' onto their machines. Would give Niners an early look at the app, and get us a bit of advance feedback Smiley

 

posted by Duncanma

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634744771989514637 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:13:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634744771989514637 Duncanma Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! @Duncanma: great to hear! Hope to see it soon. Love the CH9 shows

posted by Caleb Scribner

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634749787750043057 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:32:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634749787750043057 Caleb Scribner Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! I can't find the app in the store anymore since I installed release preview! Sad

posted by philjay

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634751206672679544 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:57:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634751206672679544 philjay Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! posted by Nathan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634751837813631120 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:29:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634751837813631120 Nathan Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! Any update on the app availability for RTM?

posted by joeyw

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634814237605039033 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:49:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634814237605039033 joeyw Re: Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! I'm guessing either this app is dead or you guys got sucked into the W8 release abyss. Hope to see this app in the store soon.

posted by DeathByVisualStudio

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634827254983582306 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:24:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Channel-9-now-has-a-Windows-8-app#c634827254983582306 DeathByVisualStudio