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Running Windows App Certification Kit (WACK) tool from Command Prompt by nmarun

This article is written on a pre-release version. Things mentioned below are bound to change in future releases. In order to understand this blog, I recommend you read the Microsoft’s whitepaper first. I have run the WACK tool quite a few times from the...
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Knowing your Metro Style App package details by nmarun

<strong>This article is written on a pre-release version. Things mentioned below are bound to change in future releases.</strong> The package details of your application can be read through the Windows.ApplicationModel.Package namespace. So...
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Obtaining screen resolution scale details in Windows 8 Metro Style App by nmarun

If you want to know the current screen resolution and the pixels per inch (PPI) scale that your app is having to deal with on any device, use ResolutionScale. This is an enum with the following values: For C#: I have named the grid as BaseGrid and I can...
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Accessing files on local machine in Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using JavaScript and HTML5 by nmarun

This article is written on pre-release version of the software and is subject to change in future release. Here I’ll be reading a list of files from the client machine and displaying it on the page. I created a new blank JavaScript Metro Style App project...
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Saving user details on OnSuspending event for Metro Style Apps by nmarun

I recently started getting to know about Metro Style Apps on Windows 8. It looks pretty interesting so far and VS2011 definitely helps making it easier to learn and create Metro Style Apps. One of the features available for developers is the ability to...
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Visual Studio 2011 New Editor Features by nmarun

To add a asp:DetailsView, all I typed was <dv, and it’s there for you. You can extract a snippet of html to a user control Just ‘space’ after the backgrouund-color property and you’ll see a popup for you to choose from. This is the CSS Color Picker...
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TPL Dataflow–An overview by nmarun

Some time back I blogged about Parallel Tasks that was introduced in .net 4.0. This was a part of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) made available to the developer community to add parallel / concurrency concepts to their applications. They have gone a...
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Good ol’ DebuggerDisplay attribute by nmarun

I got to know about this DebuggerDisplay attribute that you can use on your types for ease of debugging, seems like this has been there since VS2005. Lets’ get started. I have an Employee class which is being used somewhere in the code. Just as any other...
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Solution Explorer gets new features in VS 2011 by nmarun

The more I play with VS 2011 (in Dev Preview, don’t hold me if things in future versions don’t have what I’ve mentioned below), the more interesting I find it. Productivity Power Tools is a VS plugin which has some interesting features (blogged here ...
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ReadOnlyDictionary in .net 4.5 by nmarun

Oh yea, .net 4.5 is out (although it’s still Developer Preview). Some time back, I blogged about a ReadOnlyCollection and .net 4.5 has introduced a similar concept with a Dictionary object – a ReadOnlyDictionary type in the System.Collections.ObjectModel...
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