Jaime Rodriguez
Microsoft Windows 8 Evangelist.
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Part 31: Where to Go From HereBob reviews the topics discussed throughout the series and provides some additional resources and guidance regarding how you should approach your career as a software developer.
Windows 8 UX Fundamentals Training Workshop 2012
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Part 30: Simulating Product PurchasesFinally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items making it possible for us to use a "free-mium" business model.
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Part 29: Simulating App PurchasesContinuing on from the previous lesson, we learn how to unlock the app and its features by allowing the user to purchase a full version of the app directly from the app.
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Part 28: Detecting Trial VersionsIn this final Hands On Lab, we use the CurrentAppSimulator class to simulate interaction with the Windows Store API. Here, we simply use the configuration file to declaratively modify the user interface. This simulates the data retrieved from the Windows Store.
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Part 27: Incorporating Scheduled ToastsThis lesson demonstrates the use of scheduled toasts to remind or notify the user of a task or change in the app.
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Part 26: Incorporating Push NotificationsContinuing from Part 25, this lesson demonstrates how to utilize push notifications from Windows Notification Services to provide information or state updates from the cloud to the user on the Windows 8 start page.
Windows Azure Mobile Services
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/get-started/
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Part 25: Incorporating Secondary TilesThe Windows 8 start page is a distinctive feature and this lesson demonstrates how to implement secondary tiles to allow "deep linking" in the app.
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Part 24: Implementing the PreferenceIn this lesson, we follow the instructions of the Hands On Lab to tie up the loose ends and actually implement the desired functionality.
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Part 23: Adding a Preferences PageIn this lesson, we use the ToggleSwitch WinJS control to capture a user's preference for how to deal with remembering the state of the app prior to it being terminated. We talk about the different special folders and objects we can use to save user data, and discuss roaming and how to utilize it in our...
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Part 22: Adding an About PageIn this lesson, we learn how to add Settings pages to our project. These are used to respond to the Settings charm in Windows 8, and can be used for About pages, Preferences, or other related purposes.
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| Coffeehouse | Disappointed about WP7 APIs | 107 | Jul 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM |
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Part 26: Saving User Preferences
Nov 08, 2012 at 10:25 AM@Ariel, bob is right that you will need to tweak the template. With Blend this will be straight forward. I am guessing the brush you are looking for in the template is ToggleSwitchThumbBackgroundThemeBrush .. I recommend you alter the template and replace it (instead of altering the brush).. but either will work, just make sure you do it within the scope that only alters your controls (with this brush it might be safe since it is very specific to toggleswitch
John Sheehan: Windows 8 Platform
Sep 19, 2012 at 11:51 PMHi DeathBy,
Beta has been over for a month, Windows RTMed in august, and so did the tools.
Bytes by MSDN: Windows Store
Sep 19, 2012 at 11:49 PMHi Bydia,
I have passed the feedback on the 100 to the product team.
Trying to better understand the comment on 88. Where do you see that number??
I assume you are running RTM version of the OS, right?
Windows 8 Developer Opportunity
Sep 19, 2012 at 4:09 PMMouhammad, the tools for WIndows 8 are free...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx?wt.mc_id=MEC_132_1_4
You can get a 90 day eval of windows 8 and that is usually enough to write an app
The tools are free all the time, you can get them from here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/hh852659
hope that helps..
Windows 8 Developer Opportunity
Sep 19, 2012 at 3:38 PMDaniel Dacey, thanks for the feedback.. I have passed it along.. we are definitely working on some of the items you are mentioning ... The platform definitely has a lot great features so I would advise not to discount it for the short term.. You can write some great apps in this release.. there is lots of them in the sore already...
inside windows phone #18 sockets
Jun 09, 2011 at 5:12 PMRFX,
Are you not getting the link under the "related" section to work?
{what error do u get}
thanks!
Inside Windows Phone #16 -Mango Camera APIs
May 28, 2011 at 1:29 PMHey Ben,
I just fixed the link (thanks for heads-up, I had internal staging link so when I tested it it worked for me).
I will try to get some AR demos when we cover sensors. Can't guarantee it but will try.
Inside Windows Phone #02: The Beta Release and the Roadmap to RTM
Sep 03, 2010 at 4:42 PMfelix9, nice catch..
The OS has RTMed. you can read Terry's announcement. The tools are coming very soon and are on track. Date has been announced alrady. It is 9/16
Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications
Sep 03, 2010 at 4:17 PMIDWMaster, sockets support has not been announced/committed. It is a very common ask, so I am sure it will be prioritized highly.. Unfortunately we are just getting done with the current release and have not completed planning for the next releases, so nothing to announce at this point..
Windows Phone Design Days - Applications
Aug 23, 2010 at 12:05 AMrgullhaug,
This design is not theme aware. It is not a requirement to respect themes.
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