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Building Great #WinApps: Introduction
Recently I’ve had a few requests to share my experiences building Tweetium, Newseen, Cattergories, and 4th at Square. I’ve decided to jump back into the world of blogging with a series I’m going to...
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Building Great #WinApps: Platforms a plenty
One of the greatest things about developing for Windows can also be a challenge. On competitive platforms you can find options. On Windows, you’re given options. And, well, many of them. I’m going to...
View ArticleWinJS helper for converting from WinJS.xhr to HttpClient
This post isn’t strictly part of the “Building Great Apps” series, but it will be referenced there, and since someone was asking about this helper on Twitter I decided to go ahead and post it here. In...
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Building Great #WinApps: Your first WinJS app, part 1
Before I dive into the overall architecture behind my existing apps, I thought I’d walk you through how I recommend building a brand new WinJS app. First of all, I’m going to assume you have Visual...
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Building Great #WinApps: Custom WinJS controls
I like to segment the UI components for my WinJS projects into controls, and organize them in the codebase as separate HTML/JS/CSS files. Controls encapsulate functionality and provide an easy way to...
View ArticleUpdates to some WinJS helpers
I’ve just posted important updates to two of my WinJS helpers. Fix for dispose() in WinJS Control Template The first is the WinJS Control template from my last post. I discovered a bug in the version I...
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