How can you deal with one of the bigger problems in client development; the increasing fragmentation that is a result of multiple size, resolution and pixel density in the displays…
As I said in my last post I’m about to dig down into one of my favorite controls, the button. It may seem like something simple but in all it’s…
I have looked into how to use Google Analytics in a WinRT app and would like to share my findings.
Now your app is getting some style, we got the colors nailed down and now we also got a workflow for how fonts and text styles should be handled in…
Now when you have the basic colors in place it’s time to attack the next style issue - texts and fonts. By now it’s obvious that the colors for the…
When you start creating a Windows 8 store app, the platform will provide you with a basic useful theme. If you have no idea what you are doing when it…
This article will show you how we turned our progress spinner, that we use on all pages in the Reseguiden Sista-minuten app, into an even nicer reusable component than what…
The short story A high DPI screen is scaled so you can always ask for Bounds and get the normal DPI (dots per inch) result for a screen of that…
One thing I miss in the tools and templates around HTML5/Javascript development for Windows 8 is a test strategy, or at least some encouragement in the templates to send you…
Microsoft has launched a Team Foundation Service (http://tfspreview.com/). It is Team Foundation Server in the cloud. There is source control, continuous builds, test running and agile planning functions. All this…
In Windows 8 Metro apps, the navigation model has been improved over the previous one found on Windows Phone. One difference is that page caching has to be manually enabled…
Purpose of this post The Metro design principles for Windows Phone are: Light, Clean, Open, Fast (also referred to as Fierce Reduction by Arturo Toledo) Content, not Chrome Typography Motion…
In this post, we'll perform a refactoring that moves some code that controls the AppBar in a Metro application written in HTML5. The code is currently placed in each page…
Live tiles was introduced with Windows Phone. Compared to an icon, which only used to start an application, a live tile is more like a window into your application. A…
Yesterday we had the pleasure to present at TechDays 2012, with a session named "Windows 8 for Web Developers". The topic of the presentation was how to develop Win8 Metro…