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App building events for Windows 8 app developers
With the announcement that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and will be available for customers to buy on October 26, now is the time to build apps. On August 15th, all developers can...
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Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012
As we continue to innovate on the operating system platform with Windows 8, we also enhanced the toolset available in Visual Studio to increase your productivity in testing your Windows 8 apps....
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Media Playback: What you need to know about playing media to make your app...
For Windows 8, we made some changes in our audio system designed to improve the app experience. In this blog, I discuss these changes, and how you can take advantage of them in your media apps....
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Automating the testing of Windows 8 apps
In the blog post for testing Windows Store apps, we’ve primarily covered what to test your apps for. While you can manually execute the verification areas we’ve discussed in the previous post, it is...
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User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps
In the blog post for testing Windows Store apps, we discussed what to test at the various runtime states for your app. We also discussed a few aspects of the Windows 8 user experience and how that...
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Enabling great Play To experiences from your Windows 8 apps (and websites!)
Play To OverviewThe Play To feature allows you to stream music, photos and videos from apps to Xbox and other supported devices on your home network. Imagine being able to easily flick photos and...
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Security best practices for building Windows Store apps
As part of creating the app platform for Windows Store apps, one of our primary goals was to ensure that customers have confidence in their apps. We want customers to be confident that their apps will...
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Building the Bing apps for Windows 8
OverviewFor Windows 8, the Bing team built News, Weather, Finance, Sports, Travel and Maps apps. This technical overview provides insight on the architecture of these apps, key Windows 8 features and...
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Creating connected Windows Store apps
People are continually surrounded by devices that are connected to a network. Even the latest refrigerators and washing machines can connect to the internet and home networks. So it’s no surprise that...
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Develop a cutting edge app with NFC
Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging, short range wireless technology. With a precise range of 2 cm, people can physically tap devices together to send/receive content. Tapping lets you select...
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Sharing to your target app
In Sharing from your app, we introduced the idea of sharing content from the example app Food with Friends to several target apps that let the user accomplish rich end-to-end scenarios. Apps in Windows...
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Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience
Since launching the Windows Dev Center in October, 2011, we’ve worked closely with developers and designers around the world to understand how we can provide the best guidance, inspiration, and samples...
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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 users with weather, coupons, sporting events, or concert listings for their current location. You can...
View ArticleCredential Locker: Your solution for handling usernames and passwords in your...
If you haven’t yet heard about the Credential Locker that’s available for Windows Store apps, it’s time you did. Why? Because it not only simplifies the task of storing and retrieving user credentials,...
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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, we’d like to help you with this virtual game building event. The event is free and open to both new...
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All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript)
When writing Windows Store apps in JavaScript, you encounter these constructs called promises as soon as you do anything that involves an asynchronous API. It also doesn’t take very long before writing...
View ArticleOptimizing ListView item rendering
For many Windows Store apps written in JavaScript that work with collections, cooperating well with the WinJS ListView control is essential for great app performance. This isn’t surprising: when you’re...
View ArticleIntroducing the Windows App Builder blog!
Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that we’re bringing the Windows 8 app developer and Windows Store blogs together into the new Windows App Builder blog. With the upcoming release of Windows 8.1...
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