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    RadControls for Windows 8 - Q3 Service Pack update

    Before the end of the year we release an important update to RadControls for Windows 8. This Service Pack release brings tons of improvements as well as new important features that have been requested by our customers. Such features are Financial Charts (HTML) and Numeric Input in the Date/Time Pickers.
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Using the Performance Analyzer for HTML5 Apps in Windows 8

    If you have built a Windows 8 app, you are probably familiar with the WACK (Windows App Certification Kit). This small utility allows a developer to make sure that their app passes the basic tests performed during the Windows Store certification process. Visual Studio 2012 advises you to run the WACK each time you create an app package. This tool is great for small and simple apps, but for more complex ones you will need a better way to evaluate their performance. That is why you should also test using the Performance Analyzer for HTML5 Apps.
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Creating A Win8 App From Scratch–A Scrolling Home Page

    In a previous article I discussed the project that I’ll be building in Windows 8.  We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs.  While these designs were not ready for Prime Time, they were enough to get me started coding (okay, I would have started coding without them, who can wait?) 
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Windows 8: Longitude, Latitude, Altitude and Scatter Diagrams

    In this posting, we’ll look at how to track location coordinates in Windows 8 and how to plot changes in position using Telerik chart controls.  Specifically, we’ll chart changes in altitude (e.g., of a toy helicopter) over time, as shown in figure 1. Figure 1 In Figure 1 we see the current altitude (at 12 minutes) is 15 meters. This is reflected in the scatter diagram and is also reflected in the simulated location information that we’re using to simulate the flight of our simulated helicopter. Setting Up In order to get this to work, we need to be able to obtain the values...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read