Monthly Archives: November 2012

Windows Store App Development 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #13: Navigation (Jeff Blankenburg) “In fact, in the first 12 days of this series, we’ve spent very little time talking about how to do one of the most common activities we’ll encounter in Windows 8 development: navigating between XAML pages…” Windows 8 Store Apps [...]

Windows Store App Development 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #12: Background Tasks (Jeff Blankenburg) “Today, we are talking about Background Tasks. The short way to describe Background Tasks is this: A Background Task is the code that runs when your app doesn’t…” Building quality Windows 8 apps: Important pre-submission checks for your Windows [...]

Windows Store App Development 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day 9#: Live Tiles (Jeff Blankenburg) “Today, we’re covering a very important topic: Live Tiles. As we’ve mentioned in previous articles, your tile is one of the most important parts of your application’s success, and it’s one of the most overlooked…” 31 Days of Windows [...]

Windows Store App Development A non-traditional “Hello World” app with Windows 8 (Amar Nityananda) “As developers, we start exploring any new platform/framework/language with a traditional “Hello World” program. Windows 8 is a re-imagined new OS, and so I thought let’s re-imagine the “Hello World” too. Consultant Jargon is my non-traditional version of “Hello World”…” 31 [...]

Windows 8 Reimagining Windows.com (Blogging Windows) “This blog post outlines some of the exciting new features of the site, how our redesign addresses what we’ve learned from our customers, and gives you a little peek behind the scenes of the team that created the new Windows.com experience…” Windows Store App Development The Microsoft Build 2012 [...]