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Windows 8 Development–When Your UI Thread is not Your Main Thread

This is something that someone raised with me today and I thought I’d write it down because I noticed it when I first came to developing with .NET on Windows 8 and WinRT and it threw me for about an hour or so which perhaps lets me save you from spending an...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2012 9:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VisualStudio, Windows8
Windows 8 Evaluation Copy

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll know that Windows 8 has RTM’d and is available for download via MSDN. If you’re not an MSDN subscriber but you have been using Windows 8 to develop applications then you might well want to continue to do that on...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 11:51 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities, Windows8
From the Windows 8 Camps: GridViews/ListViews and Large Data Sets

One of the questions that got asked at a recent Windows 8 developer camp was around how a control like a XAML GridView/ListView can deal with a large amount of data or, even, an “infinite” amount of data. I thought that I’d write that up here with the essence...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 7:30 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VisualStudio, Windows8, XAML
From the Windows 8 Camps: GridViews with Inlined Group Headers

One of the questions that got asked at a recent Windows 8 developer camp was around how the XAML GridView control can be used to set up a view that looks something like the one used in the People app which is a bit like this; That is – a GridView that...

Published Tue, Aug 14 2012 1:04 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, Windows8, XAML
Windows 8 UK Developer Events

There have been a flood of Windows 8 announcements in the past few days… The RTM of Windows 8 has been announced and we know that from August 15th the RTM code will start to drop into the hands of developers and IT professionals who have MSDN and TechNet subscriptions...

Published Thu, Aug 2 2012 10:40 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, C++, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, Blend, HTML5, Microsoft UK, Windows, Windows8, JavaScript, XAML

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From the Windows 8 Camps: GridViews with Inlined Group Headers

Windows 8 UK Developer Events