XAML

In this video, we'll adapt all of the pages in the Blog Reader app to work in full screen, filled, portrait, and snapped layouts. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Blog Reader complete code

In this video, we'll build a custom data template using XAML to format how we display the month, date, and year to match the styling of the Windows blog. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Blog Reader complete code

In this video, you'll add an AppBar, learn how to use the Segoe UI Symbol font for app icons, and how to add basic animations and transitions. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Blog Reader complete code

In this video, we'll add all of the pages to the Blog Reader, including the ItemsPage which lists all of the blogs, the SplitPage which lists all of the blogs posts for the selected blog, and the Detail page which shows the select blog post in a WebView control. Step-by-Step tutorial from…

In this video, we'll review the asynchronous programming model for Windows 8 apps, and how to use the async/await keywords to download RSS feeds asynchronously. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Blog Reader complete code

In this video we'll build a set of classes to represent a blog post, a blog, and a collection of blogs that download RSS or Atom feeds from the Web using the SyndicationClient class. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Blog Reader complete code Changes in the video as of 3/25/2013…

Today's Mobile Monday post is a Windows Phone 7.x app WinSource reader app by Sébastien Lachance. "A Windows Phone 7.x App! What are you thinking, Greg? Windows Phone 8 should be in days! Why highlight a 7.x app? Are you smoking dope?" No, no... The point I'm trying to make is that Windows…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Mark discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:35] Bill Hill: Homo sapiens 1.0 - The world's most important operating system (Bill Hill) [2:16] Windows 8 Pro Pre-order [2:25] Windows Surface RT Pre-order [2:53] Windows Azure Mobile…

Fresh Paint is an excellent Windows Store App (for Windows 8). It's fun to use, realistic and beautiful ( yes, we really like this app ). In this episode we will meet the developers behind Fresh Paint, Subha Bhattacharyay, Adam Szofran, and  Kaushik Barat. Being native developers,…

Christian Schormann talks about Expression Blend’s support for building Windows Store apps using XAML and HTML.  With HTML being the new offering, Christian dives deep into the HTML and CSS features.  Download the free VS Express for Windows 8 (which now includes Expression Blend) and…