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72 design templates for Windows Store apps
I recently tweeted about some upcoming new design templates. At that time these templates were not released yet. Today I stumbled on them again. And it turns out that they are available for free on...
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storyboarding apps in PowerPoint
I recently gave a workshop about developing and designing Windows Store and Windows Phone applications. A small part of that was about storyboarding applications in Microsoft PowerPoint. The Storyboard...
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Settings Flyout from Blend
Adding a settings flyout to your application has become much simpler with the release of the Windows 8.1 preview and the preview of Blend for Visual Studio 2013. The settings flyout is now supported...
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Behaviors SDK
When the release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 came available, so did the Behaviors SDK. The Behaviors SDK is somewhat similar to the Expression Blend SDK you might have used before when using...
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About Orbizoid
Intro A few weeks ago my first Windows Store app was certified and it’s available for download now. The game is a rebuild of the game I build for the Js13k contest a while back. Because I wasn’t...
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Using Grunt to compile .less in Windows Store apps
I was playing with Grunt. Grunt is a JavaScript task runner. It automates a lot of repetitive tasks like minification, unittesting, linting and more. I’ve used it to compile templates and compile .less...
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Enabling TypeScript Compilation in Windows Store apps
TypeScript compiles to JavaScript, thus it can be used in Windows Store apps. Other than with Web applications, where you can configure the way typescript compiles on the project’s property page, with...
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Windows Store app with TypeScript and Knockout
In this tutorial we’re going to make a very simple Windows Store app that uses TypeScript. The app is going to use Knockout to handle user input to search patterns on http://colourlovers.com. I assume...
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I’m my previous post I showed how you can add a website to a universal project and share some JavaScript between all three. This is nice, but I will run into a situation where you’ll have some code...
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