Last week I attended DevLink conference in Chattanooga, TN. This was my third time there, and I always enjoy this event. For a fraction of a price of a large conference you get a very good selection of talks and speakers. In addition to listening to talks, I also had three of my own. I …
A long time ago I blogged about converting byte arrays to images in XAML applications. I was recently faced with the same problem in WinRT / Windows Store Applications. The converter code I had before did not work for one simple reason. Pretty much all IO operations in WinRT are asynchronous, which includes writing to …
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I blogged previously about securing services with forms authentication. In this blog post I would like to describe a shortcut to creating a secure service using membership provider infrastructure. To start with, we need to create a provider. It is pretty easy step, as you can inherit System.Web.Security.MembershipProvider and override any methods you need to. …
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I am working on and off on a personal application for Windows 8. I would like to protect the data via a login screen, but I would really hate for the user to remember yet one more login. Moreover, I would like to at some point generate email reminders for the users as well as …
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I have had a pet project for calendar control for Windows Phone 7 on CodePlex for quite sometime. I also have had this project on NuGet as well. I have been working for a while on porting this project to WinRT / Windows Store Applications. I am finally done with first revision and it is …
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In this post I will describe what I learned in creating my first Windows Store App projects using Azure Mobile Services. Windows Store app is the current name of the applications designed to run on Windows 8 using WinRT (Windows Run Time). These types of applications can be download and installed on any machine running …
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I spoke at the Microsoft Integration Architects Users Group on September 20th. Here is the summary of the talk. This talk will highlight new programming model for Windows 8. Application types that Windows 8 will support will be discussed. The discussion will concentrate on Metro style applications and various programming languages that developers can use …
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Yesterday I spoke at the Atlanta .NET Users Group. Here is the summary of the talk. This talk will highlight new programming model for Windows 8. Application types that Windows 8 will support will be discussed. The discussion will concentrate on Metro style applications and various programming languages that developers can use to write them. …
As I am continuing to learn WinRT and its component, I spent sometime learning new native controls that are available for use in Metro style applications designed for Windows 8. One of those controls is GridView. This control can be easily visualized by looking at Windows 8 start screen. You see groups of tiles, scrollable …
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I published a note earlier about me vouching to maintain WinRT file based database project for foreseeable future. As a result, I just updated the project’s download page and NuGet package to version 0.6 which supports the latest release preview of WinRT / Windows 8. You can download full source code here or examine NuGet …
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