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ENHANCING YOUR APPS

This section teaches you how to smartly leverage the new functionality and features of Windows 8.

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Using the Windows 8 Phone Emulator with Visual Studio

The Windows 8 Phone Emulator is included with the Phone SDK. Getting it started can be a bit tricky if

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Lessons Learned in Windows 8 App Certification

Today, I finally got my first Windows 8 app into the marketplace.  It was certainly not for a lack of

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Tooling for Windows Store apps: Visual Studio and Blend

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Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites

In this post, I’ll cover what’s required to outfit my Windows Store Boys of Summer application to receive toast notifications. If

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How to use the Google Maps API on Windows 8

Something that hasn’t been very well documented yet is how to implement the Google Maps API with Windows 8. There

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Updating your Windows Store app

You can boost the revenue, market share, and customer satisfaction of your Windows Store app by continuing to improve it

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Best Practices for migrating Windows 7 desktop apps to Windows Store apps

Windows 8 introduces a new breed of application called Windows Store or WinRT apps (formerly called “Metro-style” apps).  You can

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The Complete Guide to Building HTML5 games with Canvas & SVG

The ability to target multi-platforms – including tablets and phones with Windows 8 – using the same code and modern

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Windows 8, jQuery Geo, and toStaticHTML

I recently attended a Windows 8 DevCamp with the intention of installing Microsoft’s latest OS for the first time and

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Adventures in Windows 8: Taking a Closer Look at WinJS.xhr

Yesterday, I blogged a little bit about the WinJS.xhr object. You may be wondering what that object is and what makes

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