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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...
    September 22, 2012
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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.  ...
    September 20, 2012
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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...
    September 20, 2012
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    Windows 8–Who Cares?

    I am in Europe this week and for the next three weeks, traveling from city to city and giving presentations on Windows 8.  Along the way I will be distilling these presentations into blog posts, adding in commentary about what I’m learning as I give the presentations.There are four presentations that I’m giving in total:Crash Course In Windows 8 ProgrammingWindows 8 Programming for .NET DevelopersTo 10 Things You’ll Love About Windows 8 ProgrammingCrash Course II – Beyond the Basics of Windows 8 ProgrammingLast evening I gave the second of these,  and as I often do, I begin with a core...
    September 19, 2012
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    Pizza Ordering Made Easy with Telerik RadControls for Metro - HTML

    IntroductionWe all love pizza. I know that I do and several have speculated how it will be ordered in the future. Don’t take my word for it, check out the video below:Ordering Pizza in the Future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJl9EEcsoEWhile it may seem strange that in the year 2015 people are using Windows 98 to order pizza, it may be more realistic to say they will be using Windows 8 instead. So, let’s build a Windows 8 HTML app using several new controls that are part of Telerik’s Windows 8 UI Controls that we have not seen yet. They include: RadDropDownList, RadSlider and RadGauge. Before We...
    September 19, 2012