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    Searching in Windows 8

    Windows 8 Store Applications can take advantage of the shared “Charms” that you see when you swipe in from the right edge of your Windows 8 device (or press Win-C).  The top charm is searching and it provides tremendous functionality at relatively little programming effort. When you click search Windows 8 assumes you want to search the current application if that application has registered a Search “contract.”  If it has not, Windows 8 will assume you want to search the applications, as shown in the figure (click on the figure for full size). In any case, every program that implements a search contract...
    September 12, 2012
  • Desktop

    Building Your First Win8 Enterprise App

    You are a business analyst charged with understanding the retail market. You’ve decided to create an application that will display the relative revenues for the key stores in your district.  Obtaining the data is easy, but you’d like a graphic representation of the revenue volume for each of the key stores.  Start by storyboarding your application.  It will be a single page for now, just a prompt and a graph, In examining this storyboard you notice that you have a linear scale on the y axis and a categorical scale on the x axis.  This will be important when  you are...
    September 10, 2012
  • Desktop WinForms

    Pick & Read with Bookshelf – Our New Modern Style App created with WinForms

    The fast approaching Microsoft’s much-anticipated launch of Windows 8 caused quite a stir in creating Modern UI style applications these days. That’s why we decided to present you Bookshelf - our new demo app created with RadControls for Winforms. This is a Modern UI style application coming with full touch support using the irreplaceable Windows Forms technology. Please welcome the Bookshelf demo application: The application downloads all the book details' data utilizing an Ebay web service and then displays all titles as tiles sorted in different categories with the help of RadPanorama. All screens have touch scrolling functionality that comes out of...
    September 06, 2012
  • Desktop

    Showing 4 Data Points At Once: Financial Chart

    Most charts show one point at a time on a Cartesian (x/y) coordinate. That is, a single point might indicate that July sales were $525MM while August sales (a second point) were $350MM. The chart might also show a line connecting the two points to show the change in value. But each individual entry is typically a single point on the coordinate system. With stocks, we’d like to show four bits of information for each entry: the opening price, the closing price, the high for the day, the low for the day. There is no good way to do this by drawing points on an...
    August 30, 2012
  • Desktop

    First Look at RadNumericBox for Windows 8–HTML

    Hello and welcome to the second part of our “Getting Started” with Telerik’s Windows 8 UI Controls. In this post, we are going to specifically target Windows 8 Applications built using HTM5/JS/CSS3 and our new control suite. We are going to look at RadNumericBox and the various ways of adding it to a page, binding the control declarative and even wiring up event handlers. Let’s get started. Setting up Your Development Environment. Before diving in, you will need to setup your development environment. I created a “From Soup to Nuts” post that contains this information here. After that is complete...
    August 21, 2012