Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI.
My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...
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Hi everyone I'm a newbie to windows 8 apps development and just finish my very first app it's Wowzic
Wowzic is an metro application that enable you to search, play, sharing songs not only on your local computer but also online songs for free. You can also create your very personal playlist with...
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In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon reboot their windows phone client project using Test Driven Development (TDD) and the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.
Previous episodes focused on getting different technologies such as Windows Phone, WCF, and OData, connected. With a better...
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New Windows Phone 7 applications are being uploaded to the marketplace all the time. But is your application standing out? This week, John and Corrina Black kick off a new Silverlight TV mini series called "Windows Phone 7 Design Tips with Corrina" to highlight ways you can improve the design of...
Sean McKenna and Talon Ireland came down to discuss a few things they learned from building Unite in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7. They go over:
- Pros/cons of silverlight vs. xna for building simple games
- Dealing with the back button and tombstoning in games
Link...
Creating prototypes that convey what the application should present, how it should respond to suer events, and the general flow of an application is made a whole lot easier with Sketchflow. Janet Perez joins John for a 2 part series on using Sketchflow to creat rich interactive protttypes using...
Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.0. This framework supports new Windows XP, Vista and 7 applications based on .NET 4.0.
Download here:
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Note to Microsoft Developers
Why on Earth do you have to make such a dogs dinner of essentially a decent application.
I'm talking about the Windows Media Center.
Most TV tuner cards sold these days have a Composite Video input as well as Antenna / cable input.
However when you set up the...
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