Icons for Windows 8 Metro Application Buttons
To make it easier to use standard button icons, a new Segoe UI Symbol font has been added to Windows 8 that currently includes 25 icons. The available icons are listed below with their hex and base 10...
View ArticleWindows 8 Development–First Impressions
Along with 5000 other developers, I attended //BUILD/ in September and came home with the Samsung pre-release hardware loaded with Visual Studio 11 and the Win8 bits. Since then, I’ve been writing a...
View ArticleWindows 8 WinRT Development 101
Let there be no mistake made that it’s pretty exciting that Microsoft is starting to release early bits for some of its products for us to test out. Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), VS2010, VS11,...
View ArticleUsing Kinect in a Windows 8 / Metro App
We have been working with the Kinect for a while now, writing various apps that let you manipulate the UI of a Windows app while standing a few feet away from the computer – the “10 foot interface” as...
View ArticlePresentation Materials for NE Code Camp 16
Thanks to everyone for coming! To try out the code we looked at: Download the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/hh127353 Or get the CTP for 4.0 and Visual...
View ArticlePresentation Materials for Fullerton Code Camp 2012
Additional downloads to try out the demo code: Download the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/hh127353 Or get the Async CTP for 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010:...
View ArticleMake Portable Libraries Your Go-To Project Template
With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2012, Portable Libraries will finally be built into the product. The 2012 iteration of Portable Libraries is much improved from the prior versions, adding not...
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