Live tiles and notifications are a key part of a Windows 8 nice app. Today I struggled with this feature : I (just) wanted to hide the logo of the app on my notifications. The…
WinRT
Win8 XAML video player : easy globalization / translations
Now that you can easily stream videos from Azure’s blobs, you may want to translate the strings used in the player Framework. Today, I struggled a lot doing something basic : translating in french the…
Win8 App : stream videos from a Windows Azure Blob storage
Videos are everywhere and specially in Windows 8 app. Using a Windows Azure’s blob to store them is a good solution and this what we choose in on of the app we build in my…
Store the access to files/folders instead of using a picker each time !
In a Metro Win8’s style app you have full access to the local, roaming and temp folder of the app. The app can also access the libraries(documents, videos, pictures, …) if the correct capabilities are…