Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface http://ch9files.blob.core.windows.net/build/2011/thumbs/847.jpg Channel 9 - Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface Windows runs on a broad array of devices and form factors. Get your app on all the devices your customers use by building a great user experience that adapts to different screen sizes, aspect ratios and pixel densities using XAML. Learn how your app can take advantage of new multi-tasking views and orientations and see how easy it is to build apps that look great on different screen sizes and on high pixel density screens. en Mon, 20 May 2013 03:17:27 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 03:17:27 GMT Rev9 Re: Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface Very nice presentation.

Karl

posted by karl1406

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-847T#c634519556451073468 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:14:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-847T#c634519556451073468 karl1406 Re: Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface At 15 minutes Tim talks about star sizing grids, he says that a column with a Width of 250* is 'defined as a minimum of 250 but takes up the rest of the available space'. As a WPF guy this statement got my attention because in WPF this would be incorrect.

The following is an excerpt from the WPF documentation.

In Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), star values are expressed as * or 2*. In the first case, the row or column would receive one times the available space; in the second case, the row or column would receive two times the available space, and so on.

So in Tim's example the column would receive 250 times the available space, but since he's set the other two columns to a fixed width of 250, it doesn't really make sense. In fact omitting the 250 and just leaving the * produces the same effect, a column that takes up all available space.

Now I'm pretty sure this hasn't changed in Windows XAML either. Looking at XAML documentation star sizing still seems to work the same way as WPF, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

posted by ianoakes

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-847T#c634529299032047671 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:51:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-847T#c634529299032047671 ianoakes Re: Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface Presentation needs less powerpoint text and more images. The same content could be conveyed in half the time.

posted by BSalita

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-847T#c634539667990906871 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:53:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-847T#c634539667990906871 BSalita