Windows Store App

Today's Fun Wednesday project is one that's going to help you great cool games, free! These HTML5 games can be exported to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and other platforms as well. Construct 2 PhysicsAdd realistic physics effects to your games in a few easy clicks. Special EffectsOver 70 visual…

Jonathan Peppers, Lead Developer at Hitcents for the Draw a Stickman Epic app for Windows 8, describes how his team developed and launched their app using C# and the cross-platform framework MonoGame. Check it out in the Windows Store.   Download “Draw a Stickman EPIC” for Windows 8 Your…

Chris Mills, President of Hitcents walks us through their latest app “Draw a Stickman EPIC” for Windows 8.   Draw a stickman, then guide him through a fantastic world of adventure! Using an assortment of pencils, draw elements, tools, and weapons to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles.…

This video will demonstrate how to get all classes that inherit from a base class or implement an interface in a C#/VB.NET Windows Store app. Download C# sample code   |  Download VB sample code  Your App Adventure Starts here. Build your Windows Store and Windows Phone Apps and games…

This video will demonstrate how to add an item dynamically to a grouped GridView in Windows Store app.Download C# sample code   |  Download VB sample code  Your App Adventure Starts here. Build your Windows Store and Windows Phone Apps and games here. Try Windows Azure for free with…

Abstract: Jerry Nixon welcomes Janet Schneider, Mark Inderhees and Frank Chen to the show as they discuss the Geolocation API for Windows 8 app developers. Tune in as they discuss its benefits, features and how to implement it in your app. Next Steps:Step #1 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling) [2:07] Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar) [3:33] Visual Studio…

This session will provide some pointers to help you write a test plan with Microsoft Test Manager so you do not test in production. The instructors will provide an overview of adding trial functionality, handling errors, implementing a test strategy and designing a diagnostic and monitoring…

The key message of this module is file access and what Windows 8 can do to protect data. The demos will go over designing and implementing data caching, saving and retrieving files from the file system, and securing application data. [01:27] - Data caching [12:00] - Data storage [31:56] - Secure…

Learn more about the 5 "y"s of good UI responsiveness. This session will review how to facilitate good UI responsiveness for a fast and fluid experience, how to implement animations and transitions, and how to create custom WinJS controls while building in globalization/localization for…