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.
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.
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?)