Let me introduce you a new feature of Internet Explorer 11 which is available in your Windows 8.1 apps too : the MutationObserver. This object lets you observe the changes on any HTML element of…
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#WinRT : how to easily get the dominant color of a picture
“Content before Chrome” is the Leitmotif of Windows Store Apps. You’ll usually end up using a lot of images in your app and getting the dominant color of a picture may actually be useful. My…
Windows 8.1 : let’s discover the Scheduler of #WinJS
Windows 8.1 comes with a new feature in the WinJS SDK : a scheduler. Let’s see what it is and how to use it! In Windows 8, every job is nearly done as soon as…
Windows 8.1 #XAML new theme management in your Windows Store Apps
Did you remember Windows 8 ? The theme of your app was set once at the launch and you could’nt change it dyamically or set once by control. This was really annoying in some case…
Win8/XAML : how to create a TextBlock with clickables hyperlinks in it
Xaml is really powerful and you can build nearly any user interface you want with it. However it can be hard sometimes and in this post I will describe how you can create something I…
WinJS : use the same data in the zoomed out and zoomed in view.
The Semantic zoom let you display your data in a zoomed out and zoomed in way. It’s really fine when your data is grouped but sometimes you need to display a non-grouped data just in…
[Win8] The cached file updater contract or how to make more useful the File Save Picker contract
As you can read on MSDN, there is in fact a lot of contracts available for a Windows 8 app. Today, I want to describe one which is very useful for the Dropbox client I…
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…
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