Tag Archives: Win8Dev

Windows 8 Dev Tip: Nullable<T> Dependency Properties and Binding

Author’s Note: If you’re here just for a solution and are not interested in the extraneous bits, click here to jump to the workaround details. First, some background… Let’s say you’re building a user control and one of your control’s properties needs to be a three state boolean (true, false, null). No sweat, we’ll just [...]

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Windows 8 Dev Tip: Animating Attached Properties

When you’re working with Metro Style apps, eventually you’ll want to animate an attached property. A common example is changing which grid row or column an element is in when reacting to a layout change. Let’s give it a try: <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>     <VisualStateGroup x:Name="ApplicationViewStates">         <VisualState x:Name="FullScreenLandscape" />       [...]

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Windows 8 Customer Preview / Visual Studio 11 Beta / .NET 4.5 Beta Download Links

The Windows 8 Customer Preview is upon us! Joining the party are the Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 Betas along with the Windows Server 8 Beta. Links: Windows 8 Customer Preview – Main Site Windows 8 Customer Preview – Setup Windows 8 Customer Preview – ISOs Visual Studio 11 Beta – Main Site Visual [...]

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