Windows Store App

Today's post goes into a little more depth on the Kinect for Windows v2 Windows Store App future Windows Store app development is coming to Kinect for WindowsToday at Microsoft BUILD 2014, Microsoft made it official: the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and SDK are coming this summer (northern…

This is the last of a four part series on building cross platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses how to mobilize an existing .NET Silverlight app by reusing the existing C# code on Android, iOS,…

Larry Larsen and Andrew Richards do a live version of Defrag Tools. We look at the common reasons why Windows Store applications experience crashes and hangs. We do a quick debug of a Windows Store application crash using the !pde.dse debugger extension (available on the show's OneDrive).…

What happens when .NET code is statically compiled to machine code (versus runtime compiled via JIT) by the VC++ back end compiler? You get highly optimized binaries that load and run faster than .NET code ever has before. Yes, my friends, .NET has gone native! :) Today, the .NET…

This is the third of a four part series on building cross platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses how to leverage Azure Mobile Services and Xamarin to transform an offline 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…