I can hardly imagine any serious web development without
JQuery so I did a quick test to check if it can be used inside a WinJS project and answer is:
yes! even if not in its total completeness.
You can’t use any CDN to get JQuery library, it must be included in your project (quite obvious since application must load even without any network connection) so I’ve grabbed latest version and added it to my WinJS project
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In about 2 weeks now, I’ll have the chance to be part of the French TechDays in Paris as a speaker. This year, I’ll own a session called “Windows Phone performance analysis & optimisation” with my colleague Charlotte.
The agenda looks like the following:
- why performance analysis ?
- device vs emulator
- leveraging WP7 threads
- using the VS profiler for WP7
- tips and tricks
During the session we will use a “real” app we’re working on for a few months now (I’ll share more details after the session). We have some cool tips that haven’t been shared anywhere before, so if performance is a topic of interest for you, stat tuned !
Click on the following image for a link to the TechDays website:
I’m planning to share the most of the content of this session on my blog soon after the event.
Don’t hesitate to stop by and say hi…
So if you have been following my blog lately you would have noticed I am doing some
adventures in HTML lately… No I am not leaving my XAML love behind I just feel that I should look at other stuff and get ideas from different technology stacks.
Introduction
In todays article I want to show how layout specifically one nicknamed as the “Traditional Box Model” comes in handy to know for those that like me come form a XAML background, a background which has a rich layout system, a background where panels are the kings of the realm. We’ll see how in HTML, yes this is a bit harder, but very achievable. We will also see how HTML5 and CSS3 introduces some really cool concepts and how layout becomes comparable to XAML layout and panels.
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Intro
The
Technical Certification Requirements for Windows Phone 7 applications state the following:
5.5.2 – Content and Themes
Application content, such as text and visual elements, must be visible and legible regardless of the phone theme. For example, if the phone theme changes from black background to white background, the text and visual elements of your application must be visible or legible.
This means that everything in you application, including images, should be well visible in the dark and light theming of the phone. Handling dark/light support is very easy.
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Live near the Geneva area of Switzerland? Feel like meeting up with other developers to discuss Microsoft software development, in particular Windows Phone, XAML, WinRT, Silverlight , WPF and ASP.NET? Come join us at the Microsoft building in Geneva on the 7th of February 2012.
Please let us know if you'll attend by adding your name to this
poll.
The location of the meeting is:
Microsoft Sàrl
MBC 12 ave. des Morgines 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva
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Let’s give some love to Silverlight and in particular Silverlight 5’s 3DApi, which happens to be XNA. I want to draw something cool on this XNA DrawingSurface BUT then also replicate it in DirectX. I’ve honestly never done a DirectX/C++ …
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Introduction >> The clash of the Titans is on
Developers right this second are at some bar / restaurant / lounge / god knows where else being “social” i.e. having geeky discussions about technology, what language/platform is best to use or even better “what’s coolest right now”
I am one of those developers and I must say, when it comes to such discussions I am always biased towards XAML technologies. Yet recently I started diving in what I used to call the “darker side” i.e. HTML5, JS and CSS3 (the “dark side” is reserved for things like Java
). It’s been years (6 to be exact) since I was doing some HTML and Co and I must say; I am really impressed. HTML5 just takes everything to a whole new level BUT what impresses me most is JS and CSS3.
JS because the browsers are natively exposing APIs such as GeoLocation, Canvas drawing, local storage and also indexed DB (and more APIs). BESIDES THAT, what sells JS for me, is the new libraries developers are building such as JQuery and Knockout.js. Working with javascript today is just loads and loads of fun !!
CSS3 because WOW its frekin cool!! The new box modelling with the Flexible box model, the gardients, the transforms, the transitions and I can go on and on…
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At the
//build/ conference, Christian Schormann presented
A deep dive into Expression Blend for designing Metro style Apps with HTML that showed step-by-step how you can use Blend to create a UI from scratch in less than an hour.
The game he created is the basis for the nine-part end-to-end tutorial just we’ve just published. When you’re ready to try your hand at creating the UI for yourself, check out our step-by-step instructions. You’ll get to practice layout and styling for Windows 8 Metro style apps.
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This tutorial provides a walkthrough for building and running your app.
About this series: this tutorial series can help you get started with basic design tasks in Blend 5 for Windows Developer Preview. When you complete all the steps of this tutorial series, you will have created a lightweight, dynamic version of the memory game commonly referred to as “Concentration.” In the game, a number of cards are laid face down. The objective of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards until all of the matching pairs have been revealed.
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This tutorial provides a walkthrough for adding CSS transitions to the game cards for your app.
About this series: this tutorial series can help you get started with basic design tasks in Blend 5 for Windows Developer Preview. When you complete all the steps of this tutorial series, you will have created a lightweight, dynamic version of the memory game commonly referred to as “Concentration.” In the game, a number of cards are laid face down. The objective of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards until all of the matching pairs have been revealed.
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