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Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013–Blank Template Explorations 26 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
In order to start getting myself feeling “comfortable” with Visual Studio 2013 from the point of view of developing Windows Store apps, I thought I’d make a quick blank project. Where better to start ...
Windows 8.1 Store Apps and Visual Studio 2013 Preview (#1 of Many, Many, Many) 23 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
It’s taken me a little while to start to catch up but I wanted to begin adding a few posts about new features and changes to existing functionality coming with Windows 8.1 for the Windows Store app de...
Installing Windows 8.1 on a Dell XPS 12 with UEFI and a GPT Disk 22 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
I picked up a Dell XPS 12 yesterday and was momentarily stumped by trying to install Windows 8.1 onto it by booting from a USB key. I made a bootable USB key from the Windows 8.1 ISO image, stuck it i...
Windows 8, Windows Phone 8: Building for Both 15 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
Earlier in the week, I made a little video for Channel 9 with my colleague Andy about a particular aspect of building code with portable class libraries to span across both Windows Phone and Windows 8...
HttpClient, Parsing Content, Awaiting and Showering :-) 13 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Background I’m making a short video with my colleague Andy about the HttpClient class that got introduced in .NET Framework 4.5 (the Windows 8 .NET Framework version) and specifically around how it’s ...
Windows 8: Live Tiles, Services, Authentication 8 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
I’ve been working with an application builder who’s looking to move an existing application that exists on a “Non Microsoft Platform” over to Windows 8. Like a lot of applications, the data displayed ...
Azure Mobile Services–Custom APIs and URI Paths 12 Jul 2013 | 05:51 pm
In the previous post where I was taking a look at Custom URIs in Azure Mobile Services I’d got to the point where I was defining server-side handlers in JavaScript for specific HTTP verbs. For instanc...
Azure Mobile Services Update–Custom APIs 5 Jul 2013 | 07:43 pm
Three weeks ago, Scott Guthrie posted about updates to Azure Mobile Services – I’ve written a little about Mobile Services here in the past and which I’ve also demo’d at various conferences, user grou...
await Task, Task.Wait and Friends 3 Jul 2013 | 01:42 pm
I was in one of the threading talks at Build and one of the questions that got raised highlighted that there’s still a lot of confusion around both Task and await in .NET 4.5 which is where you’d be w...
Windows 8 and Prism: Migrating a Simple Example 19 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
In some of our recent Windows Phone events, I’ve been using an example “application” (i.e. it’s a demo, not a whole app) to try and talk about an approach to structure code such that a reasonable perc...
