Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Physamajig is a First Apps Contest Winner!

Physamajig is a First Apps Contest Winner!

Physamajig is a First Apps Contest Winner!

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:02 PM PST

Physamajig was selected as one of the Winning entries of the Windows 8 First Apps Contest ! Microsoft unveiled the 8 Winners today in Barcelona while unveiling the Consumer Preview of Windows 8. [ read the Windows Store blog post ] [ see the video about...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Process Lifetime Management (Part 11/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:46 AM PST

Windows 8 Metro applications introduces new (for desktop version of Windows) philosophy behind application execution - when application runs and when it is terminated. In this post I will overview this process also known as Process Lifetime Management...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Live tiles, toasts, badges and Push Notifications (Part 10/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:39 AM PST

Windows 8 provides interesting way to "interact" with user even when application is not active anymore.   Push Notifications Windows Push Notifications (WNS) in Windows 8 is quite similar to the Windows Phone 7 Push Notification (MPNS) model. It...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Show Message Dialogs and Popup Menus (Part 9/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:31 AM PST

This post is about popups. Why popups? Who need them? Popups needed to present some important info to the user in modal way or to present some overlays above other screen elements. Lets start from Message Box . WinRT lacks MessageBox support in classic...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Quick tip: using location services (Part 8/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:12 AM PST

In this short post I will show how to use location services in you app. Working with location services requires declaring Location capability in application manifest: The location services provides access to location functionality, such as cell triangulations...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Licensing and In-app purchases (Part 7/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:11 AM PST

Windows 8 Metro applications are distributed by Windows Store. The store handles all installation tasks, updating to the new versions when published by developer. Also it handles purchasing the application, supporting trial mode (if application developer...( read more )...(read more)

Visual Studio 11 Beta in Context

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:25 PM PST

Today Visual Studio 11 Beta is released and available for download. Don't want to read a big blog post? Phooey on you then! ;) Visual Studio 11 Beta & .NET 4.5 Beta Announcement by Jason Zander + Downloads Windows 8 Consumer Preview Announcement by Steven Sinofsky + Download Made it this far? OK, cool. I wanted to do a post that would not only point you to a bunch of other resources, but more generally answer the obvious questions. The questions that I asked before I went to work for Microsoft four years ago. I always ask: What's changed, and why should I care? "One ASP.NET" One of the things that the fellows and I are working on that will be more obvious  after the beta and even a little after the final release is...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Quick tip: using sensors (Part 6/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:24 AM PST

Windows 8 supports multiple sensors. Some of them could be installed on your device, some of them not. When I planned this series, I had pretty hard choice to make about the sensor – which one to use. Accelerometer/Gyrometer/Compass/Inclinometer/Orientation...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Local and Roaming application data storage (Part 5/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:18 AM PST

In previous post (Settings – LINK) I explained how to create application's settings screed and customize it with application specific UI and data. In this post I will explain how to preserve application settings and other application data. Wind8 CP enables...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Customizing Settings Charm (Part 4/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST

Before Windows 8 every application invented its own way to present application settings. Here are very few of them: Some apps even provided standalone applications to manage settings. Also from settings storage perspective every developer had to decide...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Data Sharing (Part 3/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:56 AM PST

Windows 8 enables data exchange between applications. This was possible in the past, but to make it happen two applications must have knowledge about each other which was always not possible especially for applications developed by different companies...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Working with Proximity Device (Part 2/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:50 AM PST

This post is about proximity devices and scenarios enabled by using this functionality. WinRT supports Near Field Communication (NFC) scenarios by providing native support using Windows.Networking.Proximity namespace. This namespace enable working with...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update CTP

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:25 AM PST

We recently released an update to the Windows Phone SDK that provides extra tools and features for developing for 256-MB devices. Most importantly, this tools update contains a new 256-MB emulator to test your applications. Keep in mind however, that...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:27 AM PST

Today the Windows team announced the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview , coming on the heels of the Developer Preview we'd released last year. While the next best thing is still a work in progress we hope you will try it out and tell us what you...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – What’s New (Part 1/11)

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:30 AM PST

Long awaited Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Win8 CP) just released! It is not come alone, but accompanied with Visual Studio 11 Beta (VS11)! Both products available for download. The links are: Win8 CP download is available here . Visual Studio 11 Express...( read more )...(read more)

New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Beta

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:29 AM PST

Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available to download. Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features. We have many enhanced many features in the Beta. We'll discuss some of them in future blog posts. Here are a few web development tools features included in the Visual Studio 11 Beta compared to VS2010. Many of them have already been mentioned in our Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview blogs. Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web is now available. It includes support for TFS and unit testing tools. It's downloadable via Web PI. ASP.NET MVC4 Beta are included in the Visual Studio 11 Beta New MVC4 templates and Web Forms templates are provided with features such as HTML5 support and ASP.NET 4...(read more)

What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta for C++ Developers

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST

 

XAML <TextBox x:Name="textbox"/>
C++
textbox->Text = "Hello World!";
Output A Metro style HelloWorld.cpp

Snippets of the Metro style version for the most popular 101 application.

 

 

 

Download this Beta today:

 

 

 

As Jason Zander –CVP of Visual Studio- just confirmed, a Visual Studio 11 Beta was released earlier today.

What can C++ developers expect from this new version compared to Visual Studio 2010? Here's a summary:

  • Windows 8:
    • Support for Metro style apps using native C++ code.
    • C++ Metro style applications can create new UI using DirectX and/or the completely-new all-native XAML UI framework for Windows 8.
    • C++ developers can also create components that extend Windows 8 apps written in HTML5/JavaScript.
  • C++11:
    • New core language features: range-based for-loop, override/final, and strongly-typed/forward-declared enums.
    • More core language features to follow shortly after Visual Studio 11.
    • New Standard Library headers: <atomic>, <chrono>, <condition_variable>, <future>, <mutex>, <ratio>, <scoped_allocator>, and <thread>.  Also <filesystem>.
    • Emplacement methods have been implemented in all containers for "arbitrary" numbers of arguments.
    • Simulated variadic templates now accept a maximum of 5 arguments by default, down from 10.  To increase this limit, at the cost of compiler speed, define _VARIADIC_MAX project-wide between 5 and 10 inclusive.
    • Per-container and per-element memory consumption has been optimized.
  • Code Performance and Parallelism:
  • IDE Enhancements:
    • Code understanding enhancements like semantic colorization and reference highlighting.
    • Editing enhancements like proactive IntelliSense, member list filtering and code snippets.
  • Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) -not in Herb's post:
    • Comprehensive tools like dependency diagrams and the Architecture Explorer.
    • Testing tools like a new Unit Testing Framework and Code Coverage.
    • Static Analysis for a better diagnosis of coding errors even if the compilation is okay.

 

 

 

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