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Creating A Live Tile In Windows 8
Continuing my series of Blog posts that distill the presentations I’m giving this month in Europe and the UK, today I’ll take a look at creating a Live Tile. Live tiles tell the user that something interesting is happening in your application, or that you have new information for them. Live tiles are an essential and exciting part of Windows 8 and creating a Live tile is not very difficult. In fact, creating a simple Life tile is, well, simple. To start, create a new blank application and name it LiveTile. The very first thing to do is to add the NotificationsExtensions project... -
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Windows 8–Search Suggestions
I recently started a series of postings from my tour of presentations in Europe and the UK. Today I’d like to return to Searching (which I started to cover here), and this time take a look at what it takes to have your application offer Search suggestions as the user types into the Search box. To examine this, we’ll create a Windows 8 application with the suggestions hard coded, but you can just as easily obtain the suggestions from a web service, or database, etc.Once again what I’m going to do is strip down one of the Microsoft SDK examples and then... -
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Windows 8 App Bars
In my previous posting I said that I’d be distilling parts of my presentations into blog posts. This post continues that idea, focusing on the App Bar. If we are going to place Content Before Chrome and remove as much of the navigation from the content as possible, we need a way to make the chrome (e.g., navigation and command buttons) available to the user on demand. That is the role of the appbar.You retrieve the appbar by swiping up from the bottom or down from the top of the screen. The appbar can appear on the bottom, the top or both. ... -
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How to Build a Picture Gallery app for Windows Phone - Part 2
In this second part of the picture gallery blog series we'll discuss how information is being passed between pages and how favorites are persisted to the phone's flash memory. If you haven't read the first part of this blog series, be sure to also check out the first part as well. Passing state When navigating between pages we need a mechanism to tell the new page what it will be visualizing. There are two ways to achieve this. One is to pass information between pages as parts of the query string in the page’s Uri. This is a rather limited approach and in...
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