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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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