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    Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1

    A lot of the Windows Phone developers out there are already considering porting their Windows Phone apps to Windows 8. May be you are thinking: from Metro to Metro - it has to be pretty easy and straightforward, doesn’t it? Let’s see if this is true. This case study gives insights into porting the design of an existing Windows Phone app to a Windows 8 Metro app. It discusses the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the two platforms, what can and cannot be reused. User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows 8 For...
    May 27, 2021 7 min read
  • Mobile

    GDI+ in a Windows 8 C# Metro Application – Experimenting for Fun

    It’s been about two months since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out and we, at Telerik, have been enjoying the new framework and all the features it offers. One of the aspects we've been exploring is the immediate mode rendering and what options the new runtime offers. XAML is in the core of WinRT (Windows Runtime) and it offers rich presentation capabilities but sometimes, especially on devices with limited hardware resources, we need to achieve even better performance to get up to the “fast and fluid” Metro applications' standard. As I explained in this blog post, Direct2D is undoubtedly the best choice...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Mobile

    Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code

    Everyone in the mobile apps business needs real-time feedback about their app’s crashes. These have to be quickly fixed, so that you are not losing converted leads. Instead, these users need to be treated with the utmost attention. To get the feedback you have three ways to go: 1)    Use the error reporting procedure on App Hub, but you’ll have to wait for 3 to 4 days for the crash reports to be ready, which may result in losing some of  your users. 2)    Put some time and efforts and write the functionality yourself. 3)    Use Telerik ready-to-use Error Diagnostics control that allows...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    XAMLflix Introduces RadTreeView

    Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadTreeView for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadZipLibrary and RadTileView. What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Mobile

    10 New Apps Join the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery

    I’ve just added 10 great customers’ apps to the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery.    Some of them are already doing great on the Marketplace, such as for example: Free Music Cloud at # 9 in the music + video / free category Private Photobox at # 94 in the photo / free category Don’t forget to send us your apps built with RadControls for Windows Phone at [windowsphoneapps at Telerik dot com]. ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read