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Annotating PDF Documents in a Windows 8 Store App

There’s a Windows 8 app that I have a minor involvement with that needs to be able to display PDF documents and also capture annotations (ideally ink) on those documents. I haven’t looked in great detail at how to display PDF documents (other than to launch...

Published Tue, Apr 23 2013 8:51 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VisualStudio, Windows8, XAML
Windows 8 (or XAML generally): Loading Images with Progress/Fallback Content

I think I may have written something similar to this before but I got asked about loading images from the web and so I thought I’d write something down. It’s a pretty common scenario that you have an image control and you want that image control to display...

Published Wed, Mar 20 2013 12:35 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VisualStudio, Windows8, XAML
Windows 8–Connecting to SkyDrive

I wrote my first Windows 8 code which connected to SkyDrive the other day so I thought I’d share in case it helps anyone who’s doing a similar thing. The main documentation set for Live is on the web so drop that into your favourites if you’re going to be working...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 1:01 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WindowsLive, VisualStudio, Windows8, XAML
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/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
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
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

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