Tag Archives: Win8

My mom won’t care about the Windows 8 Start button

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Adam Kinney

Disclaimer: I am an independent Windows 8 developer who used to work for Microsoft. My family uses Windows PCs and iOS devices. When working on HTML5 projects I sometimes use a Mac to develop. Its crazy, I know. There has been a … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 AppBarButtonStyles enumerated and visualized

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Adam Kinney

As a result of the WinJS AppBarIcons post yesterday, I’ve received a fair number of requests asking to see how this compares to what’s available for XAML-based projects. The results are in, but they don’t quite stack up. Download the full image … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 AppBarIcons enumerated and visualized

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Adam Kinney

Download the full image While digging into the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I found that AppBar buttons are now defined by using the AppBarCommand object which has an icon property. In order to work, the string value must be set … Continue reading →

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Fahrenheit to Celsius in the Win8 Weather app, a story of change…

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Adam Kinney

From fahrenheit to celsius in Windows 8 Weather app from Adam Kinney on Vimeo. This is a very short screen capture on how to change the settings of the Weather app in Windows 8 to use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. … Continue reading →

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Setting up your first use of the Animation library in WinJS

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Adam Kinney

The WinJS Animation library provides some pre-scripted animation functions that allow you to easily reproduce the signature animations of Metro-style apps.  Since there is no “Animated Application” template (and I don’t think there should be).  I thought I’d share the first … Continue reading →

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No Alert in WinJS! Use console or MessageDialog instead

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Adam Kinney

Please excuse the superfluous exclamation point in the title, this is not a true emergency. Most JavaScript developers have moved on from debugging with the alert function, but sometimes the quick and very dirty function comes up as an old … Continue reading →

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I’m doing the BUILD HIVE 2011 conference combo

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I’ve been looking forward to the BUILD conference since it was announced.  Seeing the Windows 8 demo, with its fancy new Metro evolved look and the fact that new development technologies are on the horizon, makes me feel giddy at the … Continue reading →

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