Learning Windows 8 Game Development - A Review
The game development landscape, especially for Indies is certainly changing. With the recent XBOXOne and PS4 console releases show that skills like C++ are ...
Tag: windows 8
XNA in Windows 8 from dream to reality
Just to cross post back to my own blog (really did that the wrong way round ) here’s my entry to the Intel App-Up competition now being run on codeproject, i...
Windows 8 submission trials and tribulations
Boy what a crazy couple of months, to kick things off I got my first Windows 8 game up and running and through the App Excellence labs on to the Store in pro...
Windows 8 Corrupt Packages
Like with any new system there are bound to be some kinks in the road, issues or just downright annoyances that will send you spiralling into the deepest dar...
AdRotator for Windows 8
*Note by popular requesthere’s a sample (pulled from the AdRotator site) showing AdRotator implemented in a Windows 8 app with AdDuplex, PubCenter and a loca...
Windows 8 License Checker / tester / thingy
There are probably a lot of people I could blame for me writing this article but at the end of the day it is my own damn fault for trying.
How to market yourself with your windows 8 app quickly
*Note , a minor update in the wake of recent Windows Store experiences, added an option for a privacy policy. I highly recommend adding one even you don’t t...
App Bars - What to watch out for
Quickly following up from my “Snapped View” article there was another little caveat I wanted to add, but it also deserved it’ own little post.
I think I just snapped
One of my biggest pains with porting my WP7 app to Windows 8 is the “Snapped View”, an interesting feature added to Windows 8 to provide “smart” docking for ...
Further Adventures in Unhandled Exception Handling for Win8
Following the submission of my first Windows 8 app into the preview store I’m planning on a few quick posts on my experiences and helpful stuff I found/creat...
Remote machine debugging with Windows 8
A nice feature we had in the Windows phone days was the ability to plug in your device and test your code running on it, if you had more than one device (abo...
Storage Helper for Windows 8
*Note updated after a few bugfixes from use, mainly added some additional features and changed to allow for multiple folders to be used
You are the controller – a step in to WP7 -> Win8 networking
I couldn’t resist, I should be working on my Windows 8 Port of Flipped (which seems to be going swimmingly) and finishing of some other projects but glamour ...
Windows 8 in a week on reflection
![ /></p>So pretty much from Day 1 of the Developer preview of Windows 8 being released i set myself the same challenge I always do and see if I can...