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Windows 8 Apps With HTML5 Published in Visual Studio Magazine (September 2012)
I have a new cover story article published in print and online in Visual Studio Magazine today called, “Windows 8 Apps With HTML5”. If you're an experienced Web developer, you'll love the new Windows Store options to use HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 to build an application that works in the Windows 8 UI. Here's a step-by-step guide to getting started. See below for more information and a link to the online article in case you don’t get a print copy. Article Introduction We now know that Windows 8 is coming on Oct. 26. That presents developers with a decision to make for building new Metro-style...September 04, 2012 -
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Pie Chart: Taking Control of the Label
It is pretty straight-forward to create a pie chart with a simple label that identifies the “category” for each slice. What is a bit trickier is to modify that label so that it shows not only the category, but the percentage each slice represents. Let’s build the pie chart both ways to see the difference. In either case, we begin with data. Our pie chart will reflect a municipal budget, and so our first class is BudgetData, 1: public class BudgetData : INotifyPropertyChanged 2: { 3: private double millions; 4: public double Millions ...September 04, 2012 -
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Custom paging with Telerik RadGridView and RadDataPager for Silverlight and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch
With this post I would like to show you how you can customize easily paging behavior in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch using Telerik RadDataPager for Silverlight .August 29, 2012 -
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The JavaScript Bat Belt
The Dark Knight This weekend, I finally did what so many developers have already done several times in the past month. I saw the new Batman movie. I decided for this post, that I would do a complete character and plot breakdown while dissecting the...August 29, 2012 -
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RadControls for Metro (XAML)–Date and Time Pickers
Surprisingly, Visual Studio for Windows 8 XAML does not come with either a date or a time picker. Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. The RadControls For Metro suite of controls includes a very flexible DatePicker and TimePicker control that I’ll illustrate in this posting. To get started, be sure to add a reference to the RadControls for Metro to your application. As usual, we’ll begin with the data. This time the data is very simple. We start by creating a class representing a hotel or conference reservation, public class Reservation { public DateTime ArriveDate { get; set; } public DateTime DepartDate { get; set; } } Notice that the two properties are of...August 27, 2012
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