Windows 8 app developer blog
Insights on building Windows Store apps by the Windows 8 engineering team
Introducing the Windows App Builder blog!
Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that we’re bringing the Windows 8 app developer and Windows...
Date: 06/19/2013
Optimizing ListView item rendering
For many Windows Store apps written in JavaScript that work with collections, cooperating well with...
Date: 06/17/2013
All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript)
When writing Windows Store apps in JavaScript, you encounter these constructs called promises as...
Date: 06/11/2013
Join the Game On Virtual Event
Games are a key class of apps in the Windows Store. If you’re looking to build a Windows Store game,...
Date: 06/07/2013
Credential Locker: Your solution for handling usernames and passwords in your Windows Store app
If you haven’t yet heard about the Credential Locker that's available for Windows Store apps, it’s...
Date: 05/30/2013
Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps
By tying together a user’s location to the business logic of your app, you can easily provide app...
Date: 05/22/2013
Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience
Since launching the Windows Dev Center in October, 2011, we’ve worked closely with developers and...
Date: 05/15/2013
Register now for //build/ 2013!
Last week Steve Guggenheimer announced //build/ 2013. The conference is taking place June 26-28,...
Date: 04/02/2013
Alive with Activity, Part 3: Push notifications and Windows Azure Mobile Services
In Part 1 of this series we explored what “aliveness” means to a user and how apps participate in...
Date: 03/13/2013
Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles
In Part 1 of this series we explored the nature of tile updates, badge updates, and toast...
Date: 03/04/2013
Alive with activity, Part 1: Working with tiles, badges, and toasts
Live tiles and the related capabilities of badges, toast notifications, and push notifications are...
Date: 02/21/2013
Crash reports help you certify your Windows Store app
As the Windows Store continues to grow and offer app builders a significant market opportunity, we...
Date: 01/28/2013
Introducing Windows Store App Labs for app builders
Today we introduce Windows Store App Labs in more than 30 cities around the world for all app...
Date: 10/22/2012
Building a custom control using XAML and C#
You may already know that one of the most powerful features of the Windows 8 XAML platform is the...
Date: 10/15/2012
Building a custom control using the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS)
If you have developed Windows Store apps using JavaScript, you most likely have encountered the...
Date: 10/11/2012
Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012
Windows 8 was designed to work better in more locales all over the world. Working with developers...
Date: 10/03/2012
Creating a great printing experience in Windows 8
When we reimagined Windows, we took the opportunity to rethink all the different aspects of printing...
Date: 09/25/2012
Make your HTML/JavaScript app accessible
One of the hallmarks of a Windows 8 app is that accessibility is built into the platform. You can...
Date: 09/19/2012
Integrating your cloud service with the file picker contracts
In the past, users organized, shared, and maintained their documents, photos, videos, and music on...
Date: 09/12/2012
Add cloud to your app with Windows Azure Mobile Services
Great Windows Store apps are connected. They use live tiles, authenticate users with single sign-on...
Date: 08/28/2012
Windows 8 RTM is available for developers
Two weeks ago we announced that Windows 8 released to manufacturing (RTM). Since then we’ve...
Date: 08/15/2012
Exposing .NET tasks as WinRT asynchronous operations
In the blog post Diving Deep with Await and WinRT, we discussed the new async and await keywords in...
Date: 06/14/2012