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W8WIL #5: Bringing the Awesome in Search
In this, the 5th, installment of Windows 8, What I've learned, I'm going to share a single line of code that can make your search-enabled Windows Store app absolutely awesome! Start by enabling … more
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Upcoming Events for September 26th, 2012
NOTE: My talk, "Windows 8, HTML5, and JavaScript: Happy Together," at the DC .NET User Group was rescheduled last week, due to the local tornado warnings, the rescheduled talk is TONIGHT. Details … more
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Friday App Shout-Out: Taxsoftware.com and National Zoo
Welcome to another installment of the Friday App Shout-Out! This week's new apps from the Mid-Atlantic Community are: Taxsoftware.com Prepare your taxes, view your returns, and get help with this app … more
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Windows Store and Security Proofs
So, you have your great idea for a Windows 8 app, you've registered for Generation App, and you've created your Windows Store account. You go to sign into your account later, and you see the … more
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Windows 8 Game Development...
...but didn't know to ask. OK, perhaps not everything...but certainly all the options for developing great games on Windows 8. Bob Familiar, who manages some of my fellow Technical Evangelists on our … more
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W8WIL #4: Pinch-to-Zoom and Rotate in the Simulator
As most of you may have figured out, I've been doing a fair amount of Windows 8 development over the last year or so, much of it focused on HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript apps. In this 3rd (whoops! It's … more
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Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 7 - Optimizing Animations
[This is part 7 of an ongoing series of posts examining the HTML5 Canvas element. In Part 1 of this series, I introduced Canvas and prepared a template to make further explorations a bit simpler, and … more
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Now Available...Windows 8 Camp In a Box for RTM
Great news! If you attended one of our Windows 8 Developer Camps and wanted a copy of the slides and hands-on labs (or weren't able to attend, but still wanted the materials), you're in luck. Simply … more
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Upcoming Events for September 17th, 2012
Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next couple of weeks for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event … more
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Building Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps
Introduction In this post, I'm going to kick off a series in which I'll walk through the creation of a back-end service for a Windows 8 app. This first post will provide an overview of the series, … more
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Want to Match Windows 8 Colors in Your HTML?
My fellow evangelist Ed Donahue shows you the hex color codes: In my own projects I really like to have correct colors. With Windows 8 coming out, more and more of my projects are around Windows 8. … more
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Windows Store is Now Open to All!
Windows Store Open to Developers in 120 Markets Here's the official word from the Windows Store blog: Today’s an especially great day to be a developer. We’re very excited to announce the last … more
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Upcoming Events for September 11th, 2012
Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next couple of weeks for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event … more
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Friday App Shout-Out: White Noise
As part of my ongoing privilege of helping local developers in Mid-Atlantic bring their Windows 8 apps to the Windows Store, I'd like to give a shout-out to the latest developer to get their app into … more
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Microsoft DevRadio: Reasons Why You Should Develop a Windows 8 App
I'm pleased to announce the availability of my next episode of Microsoft DevRadio, in which I talk to my fellow Technical Evangelist Jennifer Marsman about the top reasons for developing … more
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Upcoming Events for September 3rd, 2012
Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next couple of weeks for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event … more
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