Tag Archives: Using
Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps
By tying together a user’s location to the business logic of your app, you can easily provide app users with weather, coupons, sporting events, or concert listings for their current location. You can use the geolocation capabilities of Windows 8, along with the Bing Maps SDK, to create great location ...
Using Windows 8 features to drive customer engagement: the Box app
Box is all about content, according to Box VP of Platform Technology Matthew Self. "Content is at the heart of every successful organization. Customers need to access their content wherever they are. They need to share, they need to collaborate, they need to move their business forward. Box provides ...
Building a custom control using XAML and C#
You may already know that one of the most powerful features of the Windows 8 XAML platform is the flexibility the platform provides to create custom controls. XAML provides features like Dependency Properties and Control Templates that make it easy to create feature-rich and customizable controls. In the last ...
Building a custom control using the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS)
If you have developed Windows Store apps using JavaScript, you most likely have encountered the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS). This library provides you with a set of CSS styles, JavaScript controls and utilities to help you quickly build apps that meet the UX guidelines for the Windows Store. Among ...
Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012
Windows 8 was designed to work better in more locales all over the world. Working with developers like you, we can complete these globalized experiences by releasing apps that are relevant in more locations around the world. By translating using machine translation or localizing using a human translator, you can ...
Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012
As we continue to innovate on the operating system platform with Windows 8, we also enhanced the toolset available in Visual Studio to increase your productivity in testing your Windows 8 apps. Ensuring a top notch quality of your app in this new modern OS environment through thoughtful design and ...
Using HTML controls to create great Metro style apps
With Windows 8, you can use HTML to build Metro style apps. What you might not realize is that by using HTML controls directly, you automatically get the new Windows 8 experience. We have done work in HTML so that you can build industrial strength apps that have touch capability ...
Using your feedback to make Narrator work better with touch
Shortly before we released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in February, we blogged about our work to make Windows 8 more accessible to people with disabilities. This included our work on Narrator to enable customers who are blind to use Windows 8 on touch screens. This work ...
Using the Microsoft Azure Cloud Service
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesIf a business wishes to purse the Microsoft Azure Cloud technology, what features will the get for the service? Here is a summary of those accounts. Licensing of the Microsoft private cloud solutions occur on a per processor basis ...
3 Examples of Company Growth by using Azure Cloud Services
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesThe Microsoft Azure Cloud is making an impact on a lot of companies. Here is how three companies found that the Azure cloud technology was just the right system for them to use.
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