XAML

The first part of this short series showed how to create the base Windows Phone application and how to implement a Black & White and Sepia effect. The basic Windows Phone picture manipulation workflow was explained, and I showed how to load, resize, take, and save an image. The User Interface…

This is Part 3 of the four part series that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. This is the second video of Part 3: Navigation, layout, and views. In this second video, we'll add an app bar for navigation and we'll add a fluid layout for our page that works in…

At the MIX 2010 conference, Microsoft announced its new mobile strategy with the Windows Phone 7 platform. Windows Phone 7 is a completely new mobile OS, and the best part is that Silverlight is THE technology for Windows Phone 7 application development. Apps are written with a special version of…

In out WinRT Wednesday post we're featuring a toolkit to help you build your apps faster, letting you focus on adding cool features and not worrying about plumbing. We're talking one official boat load of cool features, controls and capabilities... Free! WinRT XAML ToolkitProject DescriptionA set of…

Legendary and renowned author Charles Petzold together with Principal Technical Evangelist Jaime Rodriguez led this fast-paced live Q&A session on Microsoft Windows programing.  They fielded one question after the other from the audience on how to use C# and XAML to build Windows 8 apps.…

Abstract: We're kicking off a new series today and in this inaugural episode we're talking all things Windows 8. Tune in as we cover the basics from what's new in this latest installment as well as what you need to know to build, publish and profit from developing your first application. Be the…

Today's Modern Monday post is kind of a repeat, but also kind of not. In the past we've highlighted building a "Hello RSS World" for Windows 8 series, Hello World... Building a simple RSS reader for Windows 8 Metro with HTML and JavaScript. Today's project takes so to a similar type of…

In this walkthrough, we will create a table shuffleboard style game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight. Many bars feature these long wooden table games, in which players slide metal pucks down the length of the table, attempting to get as close as possible to the far end without sliding off the…

Today's project by JP Duplessis, Scott Marison, Mohsen Agsen, Jacob Meyer, Justin Goshi and Roberto Sonnino was something Brian Peek suggested you all might find interesting, cool and fun. I mean what's more fun than a VS2012, C++ with XAML, DirectX, Direct3D, Windows Store... Update: This…

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…