Monthly Archives: April 2013

Integrate your website with your Windows 8 app

Yeah yeah, I know. This is already out there. But here’s the thing: in all the sites and documents I read while trying to figure this out, nobody TOLD ME where to FIND the information that goes in to the META tags! [facepalm] So let me save you a ton of time.

Now available in the Windows Store

Thanks to the awesome folks over at IdeaNotion and their EXCELLENT tool, IdeaPress, you can now read .Netitude from the comfort of your sexy Modern environment with the .Netitude Blog Windows 8 app. Head over to the Windows Store and install it now, or if you’re reading this from w/in the IE10 Modern application on your… Read More: Now available in the Windows Store »

Windows 8’s GridView – Not meant for data entry!

Here’s an interesting experiment. Slap this in to a blank Windows Store app’s MainPage.xaml: Now run it in the simulator and flip to Touch-mode. Click the bottom-most textbox in the first column. See what happens? You can’t see the textbox you’re typing in to! The OS doesn’t handle the “auto-scrolling” of the page’s frame when you… Read More: Windows 8’s GridView – Not meant for data entry! »

Windows 8’s ComboBox and the CarouselPanel

Something you may or may not have noticed in your Windows 8 development is that the ComboBox uses a pretty interesting control new to Windows 8, the CarouselPanel. What the CarouselPanel brings to us is the ability to, as the name suggests, roll continuously through the list of items, looping back to the beginning or… Read More: Windows 8’s ComboBox and the CarouselPanel »