Windows 8 | SRT Solutions

Windows 8 Unleashed Developer Event coming to Ann Arbor

By: Bill Wagner

We’ve partnered with Microsoft to host “Windows 8 Unleashed” in Ann Arbor on Thursday January 24th. This is a free event, sponsored by Microsoft, and

By: Bill Wagner

I’ve now spent two full weeks with my WinRT Surface. I’ve tried to spend as much time as possible with this device while I’m forming

By: Bill Wagner

I’m finishing up my calendar and planning for next week. It’s a big week for developers here in Southeast Michigan. There are three big events

By: Bill Wagner

Thanks again to Carl and Richard for inviting me to come along to Omaha to join the awesome community in Omaha. I continue to believe

By: Bill Wagner

We released our first Windows Store app earlier this week: A calculator app that supports multiple skins.

We’re concentrating on adding the art and

By: Bill Wagner

Yes, this is yet another of those notes about one of the Metro samples. This one discusses grouped views and semantic zoom. As was true

By: Bill Wagner

This post doesn’t have much code, but there’s a few important points to remember for working with WinRT apps and application suspend and activation.

When

By: Bill Wagner

This is another in my post series on WinRT programming for C# developers. For review, I’m blogging my notes on running and modifying each of

By: Bill Wagner

The next Win8 sample shows the general form of the background task contract for Windows 8 Metro applications.

There are two parts to implementing

By: Bill Wagner

This post is part of my Windows 8 / WInRT exploration and notes. This time, I’m digesting the WinRT Controls sample.

This sample has quite