Windows Store App

This video tutorial gives you a quick overview of using and debugging Background Transfer API issues in your Windows Store app. This video tutorial is a lead to the Chalk talk on the same topic which you can sign up by visiting here: http://aka.ms/P8zg0f To setup WinINet tracing open an elevated…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and guest host Sara Ford discuss the week's top developer news, including; [01:14] Microsoft contributes cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project (Bill Laing)[02:29] Captions now available on many Channel 9 videos (Duncan Mackenzie)[03:26] WAT? Website to App —…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through a common issue in Windows Store applications that use Files. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the stability of the process. Resources:Understanding and…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issue in Windows Store applications that use Frame.GetNavigationState. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how using complex objects as a parameter in navigation can cause…

Today's Mobile Monday is as much a Hardware Friday post as anything, but I already had a post for this coming Friday and I didn't want to push this out, so...yeah. Mobile Monday Project it is! Jimmy Engström, in the sprit of a coding4fun dev, had a cool toy and wanted to write an app for his…

In today's Windows Wednesday project, we're highlighting a project from Thomas Petchel (and team)  that is showing off how you can use DirectX, XAML and C++ to build a cool Windows Store App... Weathr (C++, DirectX, and XAML) Weathr is a 3D weather app for Windows 8.1 using…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Windows Store applications that use Interop. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the stability of the process. Resources:Improving apps with Quality…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Windows Store applications that use XML. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the stability of the process. Resources:Improving apps with Quality…

Last Monday I highlighted a cool Bing related project, BabylonJS + WebGL + Bing + Maps + 3D = BabylonBing, today I'm going to highlight another cool Bing related app... How to Extend Your App with Talking MapsIn a previous blog post we had a lap around the new support for Custom…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Windows Store applications that use HTTP. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how a missing exception handler affects the stability of the process. Resources:Improving apps…