Windows 8

Abstract: In today’s episode Developer Evangelists Andrew Duthie, Brian Hitney and Peter Laudati recap the “Rock, Paper, Azure” – (#BeatTheGu) challenge from this year’s TechEd as well as how they built a Windows 8 Appfor the competition. Tune in for this lessons learned session on what…

Finally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items allowing us to use a "freemium" business model.  Download the entire series' source code

In a Windows Store app, FileRandomAccessStream can be used to create a file, load content from a file, or insert data into a specific position in the file. This video demonstrates FileRandomAccessStream methods to help you manipulate a file in a Windows Store app.  Your App Adventure Starts…

In this lesson, we learn how to respond to the user's request to search using the Search charm in Windows 8.  We see all of the changes to our app that are automated by including a search results page template.  We also demonstrate how to enable apps to provide spelling suggestions to…

This session talks about how to port Android apps to Windows Store apps with mapping relations between Android and Windows Store apps. We'll cover the programming architecture, UI control, application lifecycle, notification mechanism, and data storage. After this course, you'll know the difference…

In this lesson we add an AppBar, and using the Callisto controls from Tim Heuer to provide a Flyout menu that displays when the user selects an AppBar icon.  Bob demonstrates how to use NuGet to utilize the latest version of the open source toolkit in our app. ResourcesCallisto: A toolkit…

Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky's Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7 app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one. With Windows 8 and Metro a common question is, "How hard is it to re-use, re-purpose or port a Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows 8…

The Windows 8 charms can be tightly integrated into our app.  Here, we implement the Share Contract, allowing users to select a recipe and share the recipe text and images with other apps like email, etc. Download the entire series' source code 

In this lesson, we allow users to use the reverse-pinching motion to see a high-level overview of the different groups of recipes we offer, referred to as "Semantic Zooming".  This allows the user to get context and drill into those items on our start page that interest…

Continuing on from the previous lesson, now 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. Download the entire series' source code