Robert Green
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Robert Green is a Technical Evangelist in the Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft. This is his second stint at Microsoft. From 2005 to 2010 he was a Sr Consultant with MCW Technologies, focused on developer training. He authored or co-authored a number of Visual Studio and .NET courses for AppDev (www.appdev.com). Prior to that, in his first stint at Microsoft, he was in Developer Tools marketing and then Community Lead on the Visual Basic team.
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Prism for Windows Store AppsRobert is joined this week by Francis Cheung and Blaine Wastell of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team. They show us Prism for Windows Store Apps. This project provides guidance to developers who want to create a Windows Store business app using C#, XAML, the Windows Runtime, and modern development...
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New Tools for Azure Storage and DiagnosticsIn this show, Robert is joined by Boris Scholl and Merwan Hade, Program Managers on the Visual Studio Azure Tools team. They provide a high level overview of the just announced new tools in Visual Studio for working with Azure Storage and performing diagnostics. These tools are available as part of the...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 2Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has moved to providing updates to Visual Studio on a regular cadence of shorter intervals. The second such update, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, is now available. In addition to bug fixes, Update 2 contains new features in four areas: agile planning,...
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Virtualization for DevelopersThere's always new stuff to play with, whether a preview version of Windows, a CTP of Visual Studio, or a prerelease of an upcoming version of ASP.NET or Entity Framework. Getting ahead of the curve and learning early sounds great, but how do you do it? You don't want to install these early bits on your...
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Building Great Windows 8 AppsIn this show, John Papa and Pete Brown join Robert for a freewheeling discussion about building great apps. They cover a range of topics including your icon and tile, how you app looks in the Windows Store, how you display information in an app layout, gestures, design, and more.
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Entity Framework Tips and TricksIn this show, Robert is joined by Julie Lerman, the author of several highly acclaimed Entity Framework books. Julie shares a number of Entity Framework tips and tricks including:
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Saving and Restoring State in Windows Store AppsIn this show Robert discusses managing state in Windows Store apps. When a user switches away from an app in Windows 8, Windows suspends the app. When the user switches back to the app, it looks like it was running all along. Windows can terminate a suspended app if it needs to free up memory for other...
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Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store AppsIn this episode, Karsten Januszewski joins us to talk about the latest version of the Visual Studio Achievements extension. Once you install this extension, you can unlock achievements based on things you do in Visual Studio. The latest version adds nineteen new achievements oriented toward Windows Store...
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Designing Windows 8 Line of Business Apps RevisitedIn this episode, Robert revisits the Windows 8 line of business app he wrote. This app provides the ability for employees to create and submit expense reports—and for managers to view and approve or reject them. Robert first reviews the app as you last saw it and then discusses what changes he made to...
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Using Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 AppIn this episode, learn how to use Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 app. Robert shows how to create a new mobile service and an accompanying database as well as how to connect a Windows Store app to the mobile service. He then demonstrates how to query, add, update, and delete items in the database....
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
Apr 04, 2013 at 2:54 PM@mjjj:Glad you figured it out. Now we both know where it is!
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
Apr 04, 2013 at 2:18 PM@mjjj:Blend ships with VS 2012 Pro and above, so it should have been installed when you installed Visual Studio. Are you not seeing it?
There are some enhancements to Blend in Update 2. See Blend Insider for more info on that.
Robert
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:40 AM@silvioribeiro:Hi Silvio.
Bill Burrows has an example of using SQLite with VB. He has a VB front end that talks to the C# code in the SQLite-net NuGet package. Looks pretty straightforward.
Robert
Building Great Windows 8 Apps
Mar 11, 2013 at 8:58 AM@Naqash Ahmed: A good place to start is the Windows Developer Center. In addition, there are some very good series on Channel 9. Check out Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with C# and Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with JavaScript.
Robert
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps
Feb 11, 2013 at 8:17 AM@jibyz: If you add a new XAML page using the Basic Page item template, you should see that dialog. If you add a new XAML page using the Blank Page item template, you won't see that. So make sure you use the Basic Page template. And let me know if that doesn't work.
Robert
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps
Feb 05, 2013 at 9:21 AM@jibyz: You can look at my blog post, where I show how to build this app from scratch. You can also look at Create your first Windows Store app walkthroughs on MSDN. They have them for XAML and for JavaScript apps.
Robert
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps
Feb 04, 2013 at 12:27 PM@Devendra: Did you follow the Building the Sample instructions? You need to download the SQLite for Windows Runtime extension for Visual Studio.
And you can safely ignore the prompt for Team Foundation Server.
Robert
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps
Jan 21, 2013 at 10:07 AM@Mustansir: I just uploaded a new version of this. Download that and follow the Building the Sample instructions. Let me know if that doesn't work.
Robert
Using Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 App
Dec 19, 2012 at 1:42 PMDid you create a new Azure Mobile Service first? Did you add a Customer table and a Project table on the Azure portal? Did you replace the code in App.xaml.cs that connects to the service? Is the call to ResetData uncommented in the OnLaunched method in App.xaml.cs?
If the answer to those is yes, comment out ResetData and run the app again. Does data appear this time?
Robert
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps
Nov 28, 2012 at 11:59 AMI just uploaded the sample to the MSDN Code Samples. You will have to add the references and get the SQLite-net package, but you won't have to write any of the code.
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