James Montemagno

Windows 8 Live Tiles Done Right

It is a bit surprising to that one of the best features of Windows 8 isn’t extremely well documented on how to implement it. Now there are plenty of tutorials on implementing live tiles, however what if you want to update them in the background, or maybe every so often. Do you need to require permissions? Do you need to register events? Who knows!?!?! Well there is probably a document somewhere, but I couldn’t find it. So what do you need to do? In this tutorial I am going to go through how I…

James Montemagno

Inspired by @TweedleApp

If you don’t know about Tweedle [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handlerexploit.tweedle] and you are on Twitter and Android you should probably download it. It is a fantastic twitter client with focus on core Android design which is clean and beautiful. It is also developer by an awesome developer, Mr. Daniel Huckaby [https://twitter.com/HandlerExploit]. I have been using it nearly since day one and he keeps updating it with great features and enhancements. A while ago he r…

James Montemagno

Fun with Windows 8 DataItemTemplates

So you are probably using GridViews and ListViews all over the place. In some instances you will most likely even have a situation where you you have a DataSource with a few DataGroups. Each DataGroup might actually be all different or it might even have different items in its list. If you have a nice base class such as StandardDataItem then this will work just fine. So here is where the fun comes in because usually each DataItem is going to have a different DataTemplate. This is where DataItem…

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Windows 8 Live Tiles Done Right

Inspired by @TweedleApp

Fun with Windows 8 DataItemTemplates

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