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While the goal of these quickstarts is to discuss the issues and solutions involved in porting our Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows Store app, there are some features and requirements in Windows 8 we wanted to address: snapping and appcontracts. Windows 8 Contracts provide OS level functionality…

Now that we have the data properly formatted and bound to the controls, this video will focus on custom styling and interface elements in our app. Setting up Custom StylesAs we've discussed in the previous Quickstarts, by basing our migration effort on one of the Windows 8 Templates in Visual…

In the previous Quickstarts, we have introduced the app and looked at handling data requests and formatting. In this next video, we will look at binding that data to the interface. Binding and Windows 8 TemplatesData binding plays a central role in the Windows Store project templates available in…

This video covers the basics of working with data in the Windows 8 Khan Academy app. We go over the new asynchronous pattern in WinRT for handling requests to and from the server, as well as putting together the Data Model for our app. If you have never worked with async patterns before, the…

This video covers the basics of setting up a Windows Store app project in Visual Studio 2012 for the Windows Phone 7 app we are going to migrate. We also discuss the migration strategy, scoping the features within the port, and the advantages of using a Windows Store project template as our…

Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news: Announced today: Windows 8 officially RTM'd Save the date: Windows 8 General Availability - October 26, 2012 Windows 8 Upgrade offer Announcing //build 2012 - Registration opens 8.8.2012 at 8AM PDT (stay tuned to buildwindows.com)…

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…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:54] Announcing BUILD 2012 (Tim O'Brien) [1:58] Creating beautiful views for local files (Marc Wautier) [3:50] MetroGridHelper for WinRT, a helper to get the alignment right (Mark Monster) [4:28] Debugging…

This week on Channel 9, Nic and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [1:04] Windows 8 gets a date, Windows 8 will be available on… (Brandon LeBlanc) [2:05] Entity Framework and Open Source (Scott Guthrie) [3:48] Office 2013 Preview [4:28] Microsoft Office 2013 Links, Guides and…

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…