Windows 8

Get:   professional & hobbyist developers Who:  want to develop Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 apps To:   develop apps for social good By:  giving them the necessary resources to develop and publish apps (i.e.   Generation App), incentives, and prizes Because: …

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Nisha discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:56] CTP for Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) is available (Brian Harry), February CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 (Charles Sterling) [1:47] Embracing Semantic Logging, Introducing Semantic…

Windows Store Weekly highlights 5 of the coolest apps in the Windows Store each week. In just 5 minutes you'll get to know what's new, what's hot and what you should be checking out in every app category out there. Please add your suggestions for awesome Windows 8 apps in the comments section. This…

This week on Channel 9, Mark and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [01:07] Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience, Windows Dev Center [02:25] Windows 8.1 at //build (Windows Keeps Getting Better) (Brandon LeBlanc) [03:25] Channel 9 Highlight: Programming Windows with…

File Picker contract, allows you to increase your app's visibility by allowing users to open files from your app from any other app. Watch this video to learn more about the File Picker Contract. See also: App contracts and extensions (Windows Store apps) See also related videos here:…

Joe Stegman talks about creating XAML UI for Windows Store apps.    He mentions the flexibility of XAML being accessible from C++, VB and C#, and the great performance you will get out of the engine (which is written in native code).  Learn more about the new XAML UI…

In this video we'll cover how to take your Line of Business (LOB) apps and deploy them with your Enterprise. We'll talk through your options that you have for getting your app directly to your users. And the implication of those options to both you as the developer, the IT administrator in the…

This week on Channel 9, Clint and Rick discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:27] Windows 8 Release Preview [1:28] Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is here [3:04] Welcome to the Developer Tools Blog Network (Lisa Feigenbaum) [4:59] My Favorite Features: Creating…

This video showcases how Windows 8 will allow a user's settings to persist from one computer to another by logging in using your Windows Live ID. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/26/signing-in-to-windows-8-with-a-windows-live-id.aspx

In a typical .NET WPF application, we can use the System.Windows.Media.Imaging.CroppedBitmap class to crop a bitmap, but in a Windows Store app, this class is not available. In Windows Store app, you can crop a bitmap by using a BitmapTransform class while reading the bitmap in a BitmapDecoder. In…