Tag: Metro App
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Difference between Application created using Metro UI guidelines and Real Windows 8 Metro Application
Windows 8 Metro Application runs in AppContainer, whereas any application (web or desktop) created with the Metro UI design guidelines does not run on AppContainer. They may be running in browser or directly as exe on System32 under the logged in user credential. I have been seen people are bit confused in between “An Application…
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Live Tiles in XAML based Windows 8 Metro Application
In this post we will discuss Live Tiles in XAML based Windows 8 Metro Application. We will see Updating Live Tiles Creating queue of information to update Live Tiles What is Live Tile? Tiles are the entry point for the application. You will find TILES for all applications installed on your machine at the start…
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Setting up Visual Studio11 Beta for Metro Application Creation
Just after next day of launching I installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview and VS1 Beta. And yes exactly like you, I were excited. After installation VS11 Beta looks like below, After installation I was tempted to create Metro Application. So I browsed to create new project and found below installed project templates. So essentially it…
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Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application
In this post, I will discuss how to work with Message Dialog in Windows 8 Metro application. I will use WinJS to create message dialog. Message dialog look like below, Message Dialog is part of UI surfaces in Windows 8. There are four types of UI surfaces in Windows 8. App Bar Context Menu Message…
Dhananjay Kumar 