When working with the WinRT SDK you somethimes get exceptions from it with only an hexadecimal code to help you understand what the error is. Often, when you look for it on Google/Bing, you end…
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WinJS 2.0 / IE 11 : the new and shiny MutationObserver object
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…
#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…
[WinRT] How to get the language code actually used to resolve a resource
I am working on an app with a lot of different languages. This is really great because there is a lot more chances that the user get the app in its spoken tongue. You can…
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…
C++/CX : How to expose/convert an existing concurrency::task to Windows::Foundation::IAsyncAction^ ?
😮 I am really writing a blog post on C++ ? Yest it seems so :). At this year MVP Summit I discovered how much fun I can have with C++ (and especially C++/Cx in…
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