Category: Windows Store Apps

• How to work with Navigation App Template in Windows Store App with JavaScript

  Recently I was attending a user group event and one young developer came to me with question, could you help me in finding out how to work with Navigation App Template in Windows Store App? So in this post I am trying to explain step by step working with Navigation App Template. Very first start […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  January 16, 2013

  Windows Store Apps

  Javascript, Navigation Application Template, Windows Store, WinJS

• OSMinVersion must have value 6.2.1 or higher in Windows Store Application

  I was busy working with other stuff and after long time today I resumed my working with Windows 8 development. I opened an old project and directly press F5 to run the application on local machine. While I tried to run the application, I encountered with following run time error. Error message was as following, […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  December 13, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  Windows 8 Development, Windows Store, Windows Store Application

• What is Namespace in WinJS

  Let us first try to understand, why we need Namespace? I will try to explain you with an example, let us suppose you have a function named GreetingMessage in JS file named Library.js Now you need to use this function on default.js. When you try to call that function from other js file , you […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  November 16, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  Namespce, Windows 8, Windows Store, WinJS

• Create App Package for Windows Store

      In this post we will follow step by step procedure to create app package for Windows Store. Let us suppose you have created a “Hello World “application for Windows Store and want to create an App Package for the same. To create that from menu select PROJECT     From the POROJECT menu, […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  September 1, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  App Pacakage, application for Windows Store, Windows 8, Windows 8 app

• Dilemma in choosing technology to create App for Windows Store?

      When one start creating Applications for Windows Store, the first question come to mind is what technology should be used to create applications. In this post, I am trying to ease that decision to some extent. If you creating application form scratch then as of me you should rely on your existing skills. […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  August 26, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  Metro App, Metro Application, Windows 8, winRT, WinRT App

• Share Text in between Windows 8 Metro Application using Share Contract

  Two Metro applications can shared the content between them using Share Charm. Content can be as simple as text or may be image or a file. In content sharing, the application that shares content is called as Source Application and the application that receives content is called as Target Application. Source Application and Target Application […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  August 9, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  Metro, Metro App, Metro Application, Share Contract, Windows 8

• Netflix Movie Explorer a Metro Application: Creating Step by Step

  Download source code of this article from here In this article we will follow step by step approach to create Netflix Movie Explorer Metro Application. We will use HTML and WinJS to create this application. See the video to understand expected behavior of the application. Some of the features of application are as following Browse […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  July 29, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  JSON, Metro, Metro App, Metro Application, Netflix, ODATA, Windows 8 app

• Working with OData and WinJS ListView in Metro Application

  In this post we will see how to consume Netflix OData feed in HTML based Metro Application. Movies information will be displayed as following. At the end of this post, we should have output as below, Netflix exposed all movies information as OData and that is publicly available to use. Netflix OData feed of movies […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  July 27, 2012

  WCF Data Service, Windows Store Apps

  Binding, JSON, ListView, Netflix, ODATA, Windows 8, WinJS

• Consuming WCF SOAP Service in Windows 8 Metro Application

  In this post we will consume WCF SOAP Service in C#/XAML based Metro Application. This is level 100 post showing basic steps to create simple WCF Service and consume that in Metro Application. Very first let us create a WCF Service using VS2012. Form File menu create a new project by choosing WCF Service Application […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  June 27, 2012

  WCF, Windows Store Apps

  Metro, Metro App, Metro Application, WCF, Windows 8

• Migrate HTML5 WinJS Metro Application project to VS2012

  In this post we will migrate a Metro Project created in HTML5 and WinJS from VS11 to VS2012 RC. Recently I upgraded my system to Windows 8 Release Preview. After upgrading Windows, I migrated VS to VS2012 RC. After successful installation of VS2012, I tried opening a HTML5 + WinJS project created in VS11. When […]

  Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant

  June 15, 2012

  Windows Store Apps

  Metro, Metro App, Metro Application, VS2012, Windows 8