Category Archives: Windows 8

How to deal with WebView and overlaying elements in Windows 8

Posted on December 10, 2012 by qmatteoq

The WebView control is very useful to display HTML pages and elements into a Windows Store application. For example, I use in my blog’s application to display the content of a post, formatted to be easily read on a tablet … Continue reading →

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Having fun with Azure Mobile Services – Integrating with Windows 8

Posted on October 4, 2012 by qmatteoq

In the previous post we’ve introduced Azure Mobile Services and we learned how to configure and create them. If you’ve followed all the steps of the previous post, you should have now a service up & running that allows to … Continue reading →

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Having fun with Azure Mobile Services – The setup

Posted on October 2, 2012 by qmatteoq

Azure Mobile Services is one of the coolest feature that has been recently added on top of Azure. Basically, it’s a simple way to generate and host services that can be used in combination with mobile applications (not only Microsoft … Continue reading →

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How to create and debug a background task in Windows 8 – Part 1

Posted on September 11, 2012 by qmatteoq

Finally, after many tries, I’ve been able to find which is the correct way to create, configure and debug a background task in Windows 8. Let’s make a little step backward: like in the Windows Phone world, Windows 8 apps … Continue reading →

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How to override the default color of a ProgressBar in a Windows 8 application

Posted on August 29, 2012 by qmatteoq

So you’re doing Windows 8 development and, very likely, your app needs to display some data. Rarely this data is immediately available: maybe you need to download it, or you have to parse it before displaying it. Here comes in … Continue reading →

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