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Windows 8–Updated flickR Search Demo in HTML/JS

In a lot of the Windows 8 sessions that I’ve given around the UK I’ve been building out a simple demo app that searches on flickR for some photos. Over time I’ve come to build that app usually with some combination of the following; Build out the basics of...

Published Mon, Dec 3 2012 12:44 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: WindowsAzure, Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript

Windows 8–Updated flickR Search Demo in C#

In a lot of the Windows 8 sessions that I’ve given around the UK I’ve been building out a simple demo app that searches on flickR for some photos. Over time I’ve come to build that app usually with some combination of the following; Build out the basics of...

Published Fri, Oct 5 2012 9:59 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WindowsAzure, VisualStudio, Blend, Windows8

AppsWorld Demo– Windows 8 Music Player in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

I’ve posted a demo similar to this on the site before but I was at the AppsWorld conference yesterday and gave a short example of putting together a native Windows 8 Store app in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript and someone asked me to record it and put it online...

Published Thu, Oct 4 2012 4:32 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript, CSS

Windows 8, XAML and Displaying Multiple Sized Items

One of the common layouts that you see in Windows Store applications is one that looks a little like the one below; If I’m data-binding to a set of items that I’ve slotted into my DataContext with something like; this.DataContext = from i in Enumerable.Range...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2012 11:41 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VisualStudio, Blend, 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

Windows 8, Stacked Conference, August, Liverpool

I’m excited to say that I’ll be speaking at the free “Stacked” Conference in Liverpool on August 7th on Windows 8 related topics. alongside me will be my good friends and colleagues Gill Cleeren and Giles Davis – should be an excellent day and I look forward...

Published Fri, Jun 29 2012 4:22 PM by mtaulty

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

HTML Authoring Features for Metro style apps in Blend

Nice video over on BlendInsiders giving an overview of using Blend for Windows 8 Metro style apps. Watch over here . Don't give up on it at the "Hello World" point - it goes quite a way beyond that.

Published Thu, Apr 26 2012 9:41 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript

Windows 8 Metro style simple music app example

It was a long weekend here in the UK and it rained a little and so I had a bit of spare time to put together a make-it-up-as-you-go-along screencasts around a simplistic Windows 8 metro style app that lets me play music from albums found in my music library...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2012 9:19 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: VisualStudio, Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript, CSS

Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS

At last week’s Windows 8 developer events in London , I did a simple demo of putting together a flickR search for photographs using the Windows 8 Metro style app search contract. I didn’t implement all of the search contract, just a little of it and we didn...

Published Sun, Apr 1 2012 5:47 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript, XAML

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta

An additional resource I should definitely have added to the list that I published the other day around Windows 8 and Metro style app development; I’ve been a big Blend user for quite a number of years and while I thought that the preview that came out back...

Published Sun, Mar 4 2012 9:45 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, Windows8

Silverlight 5 Released

Silverlight 5 has been released today – you can find the official announcement over on the Silverlight site along with a link to the download and a list of the improvements in Silverlight 5 up on MSDN including features like; platform invocation integration...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 12:13 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

If you moved to the Silverlight 5 RC then you’d probably be wanting the companion version of Expression Blend. Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 Enjoy

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 10:21 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Windows Phone App–ContactShare Updated for ‘Mango’

I’d managed to get my Windows Phone upgraded to the ‘Mango’ developer beta 2 release and so I thought I’d revisit my amazing ContactShare application that I’d built against the RTM version of Windows Phone. Firstly, I thought it’d be good to do a quick...

Published Thu, Sep 1 2011 7:13 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, WindowsPhone

Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference

I’ve been asked about what will happen at the BUILD conference ( http://www.buildwindows.com ) many times over the past few weeks and how it will or won’t affect existing client technologies like Silverlight, WPF and so on. There’s very little that I can say...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 9:54 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, Windows

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