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May 25, 2013 |

Getting started with free Metro (Modern UI) charts for Windows 8

Charts are a part of (probably) all the commercial controls that are being sold for different platforms (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows 8 etc.). Those commercial controls often bring a lot more than just charts and sometimes they cost a lot more than a single, hobby developer can afford. What if you need only to visualize your data using charts and you’re low on budget? Try the free Metro (Modern UI) charts.

May 6, 2013 |

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Nokia Music API for Windows 8

Nokia Music API is a set of services that allow you to offer parts of Nokia Music services in your application, which is especially interesting on Windows Phone 8 and (more recently) Windows 8 platform. The Windows 8 support is available for around 2 weeks. How to use it in your app?

nokia music Windows 8

May 3, 2013 |

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This is not another WinDays 13 goodbye post

This is not another WinDays 13 goodbye post. It’s actually a ‘see you again soon WinDays’ post, with a few of my own impressions and thoughts about the Microsoft WinDays 13 conference held in Umag, Croatia last week. I had a session there about Live services and I wrote for the official WinDays 13 blog with a couple of colleagues.

Apr 28, 2013 |

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Transferring blog to Azure Web Sites – fresh start

After quite some time, I am transferring blog to Azure Web Sites to have more and better control over it. This means better insight into what’s happening regarding the traffic, better customization possibilities etc. Where are we now? What’s next? How do you like the new theme?

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Mar 31, 2013 |

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Character ellipsis trimming in Windows Store apps

As a relatively new platform, WinRT is missing some of the features that WPF and even Silverlight developers are used to. One of those features is definitely the character ellipsis trimming feature for TextBlocks. I did a little research on that matter for one of my recent projects, and here’s what I’ve come up with.

trimming Windows 8 WinRT

Mar 26, 2013 |

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Advanced data caching in Windows Store apps

In this post we’ll be working with data caching in Windows Store apps using Q42.WinRT library and Flickr API, continuing from the last post “Data caching in Windows 8 apps”. Using the library, it’s very simple to do a lot more than just storing the data to local storage.

cache q42 WinRT

Mar 3, 2013 |

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Data caching in Windows 8 apps

When working with a lot of data in apps based on web services (JSON return format being quite common), you’d normally want to cache it in order to make your apps faster and make your users spend less Internet traffic on refreshing which actually isn’t necessary. Also, if the users opens your app while having no Internet connectivity, it’s nice to show him something, even though it’s cached data. It’s always possible to implement your own caching framework, but there’s a nice library already out there called Q42.WinRT which makes it very easy to do the caching.

cache q42 WinRT

Dec 12, 2012 |

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Modern UI PowerPoint template

Modern UI, Microsoft Design Style, Metro… Doesn’t matter really in this case. I was looking for a PowerPoint template to use in my presentations and didn’t find many clean and nice online. I didn’t want Windows 8 start screen in my presentations, but clean interface with Segoe font and maybe some solid fill rectangles in great looking colors. I found one which was looking OK and working great, so I modified it to fit my needs, created dark and light versions and now I’m sharing it.

metro microsoft design style modern ui powerpoint template

Dec 11, 2012 |

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Live Connect SDK for Windows Phone 8–authenticating and basic info

Live SDK makes it easy for you as a developer to use Live services from inside your Windows Phone 8 app. More than 500 million people use services like SkyDrive, Hotmail, Messenger etc. There are some things which you don’t want to store locally when building apps, such as data that needs to be used from any device that a person has, calendars and events, people etc. When you use Live SDK, it synchronizes beautifully in the Cloud and becomes available on all the devices. I’ll try to cover some basic Windows Phone 8 Live Connect stuff in 3 days. This is day 1.

Live SDK Windows Phone

Nov 2, 2012 |

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How to set vertical title in Windows 8 GridView items

One of the issues when it comes to space and properly designing a GridView on devices with 768 pixels of height is the fact that the title of each GridView item can often take just the amount of space on the top that you need to fit all your data. Considering the fact that the GridView is predefined to scroll horizontally and that in landscape orientation you get more space horizontally, why not put the title of each item vertically next to the item and get those approx. 60-100 pixels back. Plus, it looks really cool. Read more to find out how to do it!

GridView gridviewitem layout transform WinRT

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