Windows User Interface

Great apps have a special ingredient to them that make them great – the experience of the app itself. Paul Laberge comes back to D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE for a chat on what it takes to create great, but more importantly, consistent, app experiences. Watch the new from this episode >> D³:…

Today's wild Wednesday post is an interesting mix of languages and things, all thrown together as a Metro game (Yeah, I know it's not Metro Monday, but still...) Today's project mixes Metro style app development, Portable Libraries, C#, F# and the always fun to play PacMan! Pacman TilesBack in…

ZDNet's All About Microsoft blog editor and frequent commentator on all things Microsoft, Mary Jo Foley, gives an industry take on the Developer Opportunity made possible with the recent announcements for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and Visual Studio 2012. Plus: Mary Jo answers questions…

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…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've started seeing it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:41] Announcing MSDN Profile Integration (Geoffrey, karstenj, Mike Sampson) [1:26] .NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications (Soma Somasegar) [2:27] My Favorite Features: Improved…

Live Q&A with Bruce Johnson and Atley Hunter. WIN280 - Metro in Windows 8 and Windows Phone (Part 1)The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

This webcast presents a description of the process in integrating the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) into an existing Apache Cordova application. Additional pointers are provided to aid developers in their task. To learn more about the theme and download it, read the blog…

I could/should have saved this project for a Metro Monday post, but, well, I couldn't wait on this any longer. This project had me at "... includes binaries of Ogre, FreeImage, Hydrax and SkyX for x64, x86 and ARM in both Debug and Release flavors and is configured to automatically link the…