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- Physamajig is a First Apps Contest Winner!
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Process Lifetime Management (Part 11/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Live tiles, toasts, badges and Push Notifications (Part 10/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Show Message Dialogs and Popup Menus (Part 9/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Quick tip: using location services (Part 8/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Licensing and In-app purchases (Part 7/11)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta in Context
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Quick tip: using sensors (Part 6/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Local and Roaming application data storage (Part 5/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Customizing Settings Charm (Part 4/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Data Sharing (Part 3/11)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Working with Proximity Device (Part 2/11)
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update CTP
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – What’s New (Part 1/11)
- New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Beta
- What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta for C++ Developers
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) | ||||||
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) | ||||||
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) | ||||||
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) | ||||||
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) | ||||||
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
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:
Links of interest:
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