Visual Authoring for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Blend and Visual Studio
Published by on 29.02.2012 at 16:09

If you are ready to begin developing apps for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released this week, we have the tools for you: Beta versions of both Visual Studio 11 and Blend are now available.
As in the Windows 8 Developer Preview released in September, Blend is part of Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8. In addition, starting with the Visual Studio 11 Beta, Blend is now also included in Visual Studio 11 Ultimate, Premium and Professional. If you install any of these editions of Visual Studio 11 Beta on Windows 8, you will have the Blend and Visual Studio capabilities that this post describes.
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Blend Beta Known Issue: Menus do not render correctly when Windows 8 Basic theme is applied
Published by on 29.02.2012 at 16:05

Summary:  When the Windows 8 Basic theme is applied, menus do not render correctly in the XAML Designer in Visual Studio 11 Beta and in Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta If the Windows 8 Basic theme (the default theme for the Windows 8 platform) is applied, you can’t read the following items unless you hover the pointer over them:
  • The context menus and property marker menus in XAML Designer.
  • The main menus, context menus, and property marker menus in Blend.
To work around this issue, change the default theme to a theme that is not Windows 8 Basic by doing one of the following:     Read the full post

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Comparing Windows 8 Consumer to Developer Preview
Published by on 29.02.2012 at 15:36

 
As you probably know by now Windows 8 Consumer Preview is available for download at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
I'm personally most interested in what changed since the Developer Preview for us developers. I've compiled a diff list of the WinRT API showing all differing between the two previews.

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Windows Phone Tango (7.1.1)
Published by on 27.02.2012 at 18:34

Day 1 of Mobile World Congress has been the occasion for Microsoft to introduce officially the Windows Phone Tango, or Windows Phone 7.1.1 A CTP of the 7.1.1 SDK is now available. This CTP does NOT comes with a go-live license, it basically means you will NOT be able to publish apps to the marketplace with it. “The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update provides additional functionality to the existing Windows Phone SDK 7.1 software to enable mobile developers to better target applications for 256MB Windows Phone devices. This update includes an updated 512MB emulator, as well as a new 256MB emulator image, and Intellisense support to communicate device targeting preferences. Once installed, the WP SDK 7.1.1 update allows you to decide which emulator you would like to deploy your app to.”     Read the full post

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Video: Structuring JavaScript with the Revealing Module Pattern
Published by on 27.02.2012 at 07:16

This sample video from Pluralsight’s Structuring JavaScript Code course provides an introduction to the Revealing Module Pattern and demonstrates how it can be used to convert “function spaghetti code” to more structured code that’s re-useable and easier to maintain. If you’d like additional details about using the Revealing Module Pattern as well as other patterns that can be used to structure your JavaScript code view my post here. Read the full post

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jQuery Tip #5: Using jQuery’s end() Function to Work with Sets
Published by on 26.02.2012 at 21:45

Previous Tips: jQuery's selector functionality makes it easy to add new nodes into the DOM without making a lot of calls to document.createElement(). For example, the following code adds <div> and <span> nodes into the DOM and appends them to a divContainer node:   
$('<div class="cust"><span /></div>').appendTo('#divContainer');
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jQuery Tip #4 – Use the on() Function for Event Handling
Published by on 26.02.2012 at 19:26

Previous Tips: jQuery provides several different functions that can be used to handle events. Choices include shortcut functions such as click() and hover(), the live() function, the delegate() function, and the bind() function. The live() and delegate() functions can be used to handle event bubbling scenarios such as rows in a table being clicked, while the shortcut functions act as wrappers around the bind() function.   Read the full post

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Windows Phone vNext & Windows 8 next week
Published by on 26.02.2012 at 13:49

Update 26th 7:37PM: Nokia keynote live tomorrow morning at 8:30 CET. Live webcast here: http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/webcast-mwc/webcast/ The coming week should be pretty interesting for any folks interested in Microsoft technologies. The Mobile World Congress will take place in Barcelona from Monday to Friday. Windows Phone On the mobile space, we can expect first official information about Windows Phone Tango. Tango is expected to be a version of the OS dedicated to low-end devices. From the various leaks that occurred in the last weeks we already have some ideas of what Tango might look likes:
  • ability to import and export contacts directly from the SIM card
  • ability to send multiple images in a single MMS
  • more languages supported (120, whereas Mango supports “only” 35)
  • ability to run on devices with only 256MB or RAM
None of those information have been confirmed yet but it’s only a matter of hours now :-)
Of course in the Windows Phone world, the next big step will be Apollo. Apollo is expected to be the next major version of the Windows Phone platform. At this point, we don’t know if Microsoft is going to talk about Apollo during MWC.

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Design Guidelines for Windows 8 Metro apps
Published by on 25.02.2012 at 03:02

Question I start to hear often: where to find good online resource for Metro UX design guidelines ?   1. Well, when first going to MSDN you’ll find this page “Designing Metro style apps” which I find a bit harsh (hello pictures?): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465427 2. Far better is the “UX guidelines for Metro style app development” article on the Blend Insider blog, which in fact is a well organized list of MSDN links grouped by topics: http://blendinsider.com/technical/ux-guidelines-for-metro-style-app-development-2011-10-21/ 3. And then, this awesome “Windows 8 Touch Guidance” document by Microsoft: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20120223/microsoft-offers-touch-guidance-to-windows-8-metro-app-developers/

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What’s new with .NET, Windows 8, Metro, WinRT ?
Published by on 24.02.2012 at 16:52

   Still trying to figure out what’s changing in the Microsoft development platform ? How to deal with .NET, Silverlight, Windows 8, WinRT and Metro style apps in 2012…? I strongly recommend reading those documents for clear recommendations: White Paper by Magenic: Assessing the Windows 8 Development Platform http://magenic.com/Portfolio/WhitePaperWindows8DevelopmentPlatform.aspx The Microsoft Platform Guide byTelerik: http://www.telerik.com/platformguidance.aspx This interesting article tries to answer the question: which technology to choose right now depending on my project? It will be updated later for Windows 8…

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