Contents tagged with WinRT
Metro Friday Hackathons in the DC Area
If you’re a developer in the DC metro area working on a Metro style app for Windows 8, then you don’t want to miss these special events. Metro Friday Hackathons Join us on three Fridays in May for Metro Friday Hackathons. We simply want to provide you with an event where you can sit …
Adventures in Windows 8: Writing WinRT Components
Earlier today, I opined the finer points of JavaScript/HTML development after earlier on the same day pointed out something that couldn’t be done in JavaScript and I added a WinRT component written in C#.
This is one of the best parts of Metro style app development: WinRT components.
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Adventures in Windows 8 June Round Up Post
Here’s a round up of all my “Adventures in Windows 8” blog posts for handy reference. Adventures in Windows 8: Taking a Closer Look at WinJS.xhr Adventures in Windows 8: Writing WinRT Components Adventures in Windows 8: Wait, Did You Say JavaScript? Adventures in Windows 8: Handling HTTP 302 …
Two Useful Toolkit Projects in the Works
Based on the positive reception of the Screen Scraper Utility Kit for Windows Phone, I’ve decided to port it over to WinRT.
The Windows Runtime version add the ability to read in Definition files written in JSON.
But Wait! There’s More!
At recent Windows 8 Hack-a-thons and …
Parsing CSV Files in WinRT
I am proud to announce that my CSV Parser for Windows RT is now available on MSDN Code Samples. Creating a CSV parser sounds like an easy task, but it’s the developer equivalent to quick sand. CSV stands for Comma Separted Values and, despite the name, the files in this "format" are often not fields …
Screen Scraper Utility Kit for WinRT
Based on the success of the Screen Scraper Utility Kit for WP7, I decided to port the library over to Windows RT. It’s now available on MSDN Code Samples for download. Technically, speaking this Utility Kit is an example of “Web Scraping, ” but the FindElement and FindElements extension …
Building a Better CSV Parser Engine
Yesterday, I posted the CSV Parse Engine for WinRT to help developers write Windows 8 apps more quickly. [download | blog post] If you’ve had the chance to download the bits, you may have noticed a few things about the code and had some questions. This post should answer questions the intro …
Introducing Surface Video
The Microsoft Surface team just posted a video explaining a little more about the Surface device. By the way, it’s now available for pre-order.
Bill Gates on Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 and Surface
In this YouTube video, Bill Gates talks to the Next at Microsoft team about Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface. The next two weeks are going to be incredible.
Deep Dive into Native Windows 8 Apps
The last time I did anything meaningful with C++, I was in college and Kurt Cobain was still alive. So, I appreciate any training materials I can get to brush up on this skill set. C/C++ is a bit like Latin: everyone agrees it’s important, but very few people speak it anymore. In this session from …
How to Change Style Resources at Runtime in WinRT
This great article by Iris Classon shows you how to dynamically change Style resources at runtime in WindowsRT and it’s too good not to share.