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…
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WinJS – Navigate in a ListView using mouse wheel is easy !
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…
Windows 8 Metro apps – a lot of icons are available out of the box !
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…
WinJS – how to cancel the navigation from a page ?
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…
Windows 8, Larousse and “proud to be a developer” !
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…
The Techdays’ code is here !
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…
The Techdays 2012 are coming !
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 !
Coded UI Tests : WPF Utilities
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…
Coded UI Tests : Property “ReadOnly” cannot be retrieved due to the current state of Edit
Did you ever encounter this error while trying to retrieve a property value from an AutomationElement ? I did ! Don’t worry, there is always a work-around, and I’ve found one. In this post, we’ll…
[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app.
Something new which came with Mango is the ability for the developers to set the number of bits per pixel our app use. By doing this, your app will have shiny graphics! This increase the…