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…
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Windows 8 : the sharing contract in Metro / WinRT applications
Metro applications introduce the use of contracts in your applications. You can think of them as “system interfaces” telling Windows: “my app is able to perform this operation“. One of them, and I think the…
Windows 8 : display an image stored in the sharing data.
Just a quick snippet to remember it someday 🙂 ! It gets the bytes of a screenshot from a sharing operation and display it in an image control named “image”. [csharp]var bitmapStream = args.ShareOperation.Data.GetBitmap(); if…
Windows 8 : how to detect the orientation and the layout state of a metro app ?
Metro applications and windows 8 is designed to be runned on a PC. This is even better if this PC is a tablet 🙂 (but an eeepc is too small)! If the tablet has the…
Windows 8 tips: fast access to an app.
Today I was talking with my friend Etienne Margraff – also know as Emmanuel – (blog and twitter)and I told him how boring and time-consuming it was to press Win+F to access the search screen…
Windows 8 : Metro’s Grid Application – what, how and when ? – EDITED
Windows 8 is here and Visual Studio 2011 comes with it hand in hand. As you may already have read/seen/watch, there is a new set of applications coming named as ‘metro’. Visual Studio 2011 then…