Microsoft Design Style

Writing a RSS reader used to be the new Hello World app (now I think it's writing a Twitter app, but anyway...) so when saw this great walk-through for creating a Metro Style App that consumes an RSS feed I thought it would make for a perfect Metro Monday post. Then when I saw the author was using…

HTML5 can be used in Windows Phone application development. Leveraging HTML5 allows publishing a same application on several platforms reusing a maximum of code. Tools and frameworks such as Apache Cordova (previously known as PhoneGap) allow to "wrap" the HTML5 and JavaScript code into a…

With last week's release of Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC, the Metro style app building cycle is going to pick up serious steam. To help you all with that, in the coming week's I'm going to focus the Metro Monday posts on frameworks, toolkits and tools that will help you build…

Thanks to all of you who attended on premise and in the cloud. All sessions are available for on demand viewing. Whether you are a new C++ developer ready to learn about writing Metro style apps, an intermediate developer who wants to honeyour code and skills, or an experienced…

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF to compose a navigable application.…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:34] Announcing Windows Azure Media Services (Scott Guthrie), windowsazure.com Media Dev Center [1:51] Channel 9 Windows 8 Application (Lee Stott) [2:29] Microsoft’s MAVIS audio and video…

We're trying a new format for the show notes for this week, let us know what you think!: [0:24] WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM Release (WCF Data Services Team Blog), WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM[1:32] Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK, pt. 2 (Larry Lieberman)[2:40] Tackling performance killers: Common…

I've been keeping on eye on the SharpDX project for a while, waiting on a killer demo. I think I've found it, and in a way I wasn't really expecting. These post details not only how to use SharpDX, but how to use them in a Windows 8 Metro Style app too! First a snip about SharpDX; SharpDXSharpDX is…

Windows 8 will change the way users interact with it, and it will change the way we developers think about it. In this session we'll talk about the key concepts and the business opportunities that Windows 8 provides! Join us on this special event with our guest speaker: Michael Platt,…

Windows 8 will change the way users interact with it, and it will change the way we developers think about it. In this session we'll talk about the key concepts and the business opportunities that Windows 8 provides! Join us on this special event with our guest speaker: Michael Platt,…