Do you have a lot of windows phone apps ?
Are you always checking the AppHub when you release a new version, wondering if it’s ok to release it ?
Are you always asking yourself “do I have a bug and a bad review” ?
Do you need to know how much is downloaded your app several times a day ?
If yes, you are AppHub addict like me ! Let’s discover an app which will soon be your favorite one !
Resources are really useful when you want to globalize your app to distribute it to the whole world !
It also can be useful when you need to store a label used on a lot of place in your application.
The .Net resources system is described all around the web and today we are going to explore a little the WinJS one.
WinJS comes with several controls out of the box : Listview, FlipView, SemanticZoom, DatePicker, Flyout, etc…
Although they are really powerful and useful, they do not cover all needs and it’s time for us (the community) to provide some other controls.
In this post we’ll see how this can be done. Don’t worry it’s in fact really easy and straightforward.
The listview can be considered as the most powerful control of the WinJS UI controls.
It works very well in ‘touch mode’ and the user experience is just great !
When it comes to use the mouse & keyboard, the scrollbars appears and you can use them to navigate in the list.
Then, the first thing you may try is to use the mouse wheel : no result at all !
By default, you can’t navigate in the listview using the mouse wheel.
I think it can be really strange for user who are used to this behavior and in this post we’ll see how it’s easy to implement the mouse-wheel scroll !
In Metro apps, the Metro design is everywhere and that’s pretty cool !
When you start an application, you want and need it to be compliant with this theme and one main part of it are icons.
What you may not know is that there is already a lot of icons available for you out of the box in any Metro app.
Let’s discover them !
Did you use the WinJS navigation framework ? If not, you should really take a look at it because it’s can be really useful and powerful !
Today I needed to cancel the navigation from a page based on the current state of the page. It could be useful to zoom out of a semantic zoom instead of navigating back when the user tap the little arrow (windows phone habit 
).
I was wondering how I would be able to code this and it turned out that this is pretty easy.
The Windows 8 consumer preview is out !
You can find a lot of information and download links on this page : http://preview.windows.com.
I am not used to speak about the apps I work on but this time I have too!
It’s several weeks now that I work on the ‘Larousse illustré’ version for Windows 8. You can now find it on the windows store (french version only).
It was a really nice experience with great people involved and I am lucky that my company (Infinite Square) let me be a part of such a great project !
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Hi everyone,
The techdays are over and it was a very good year !
I was a speaker in two sessions, one with Thomas on WPF 4.5 and one another with Luc on WPF Memory Leaks.
A lot of people asked me to share the code of the demos and here it is !
Hello everyone,
The 2012 Techdays are coming, 7 more days and it’s here !
This year I am proud to be speaker on two sessions and I hope to see you there !
I played a lot with Coded UI Tests API on WPF applications these last weeks.
It turned out that this is a really powerful framework available to use but that we need to write a lot of code ourselves even for simple things.
You may already know the coded ui test utilities of Gautam Goenka available on his blog.
On this blog post, I want to introduce a set of complementary helper methods that you can use in your project. The links to the binaries/sources are at the end of the post.
Here is a list of the available features :
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