Jan 20
In the previous post, we’ve started looking at the async pattern in Windows 8 Metro apps developed with JavaScript. By now, you know that all async operations are wrapped in Promise objects which you can use to be notified when that operation has ended (besides other interesting things!). We’ve also seen how we can “improve” […]
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Jan 19
After a small detour into ASP.NET MVC, I’m back into my “Windows 8 application development study”. One of the things you’ll notice when writing Windows 8 Metro applications is that most APIs don’t expose any synchronous methods. If an operation takes more than 15ms to be executed, then you’ll be getting an asynchronous call. And […]
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Jan 12
In the previous post, I’ve talked about the new Flyout control. Today, we’ll take a quick look at the context menu. In practice, you’ll show a context menu when you need to show a menu which gives the user immediate access to actions on text or UI objects. By default, there are predefined context menus […]
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Jan 11
According to the docs, the Flyout control allows us to add lightweight popups which relate to what the user is currently doing. Creating a flyout is a simple operation which evolves a couple of steps: create the HTML snippet shown by the flyout; create the Flyout control and associate it with the HTML snippet created […]
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Jan 09
The Tooltip control is one of the new controls introduced by WinRT JavaScript API. After looking at the docs, I’ve decided to see how I could use it in a real world scenario. Since it’s a Windows 8 control, I knew that I could instantiate it by applying the win-data-control attribute to a div (and, […]
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Jan 05
After a couple of days playing with the Windows 8 controls (more about them in future post), I’ve decided that it was time to see how to get remote data through the WinJS.xhr helper. To make things really simple, I’ve decided to create an HTML page on the server which would be obtained through WinJS.xhr […]
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Jan 04
After installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview With Developer Tools, I’ve finally managed to debug my JavaScript applications. Hurray and hurrah!!! And I must confess that the experience is really good! Even though I’ve been using Windows 8 for some time now, the truth is that the Widows 8 Developer Preview version I’ve decided to […]
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Jan 03
Yesterday I’ve started playing with the Windows 8 developer bits and I’ve decided to follow the JavaScript online docs. Windows 8 introduces lots of new things, but I’ve decided to start simple. It didn’t take long until I got into trouble though…One of the first controls that got me into trouble was the TimePicker control. […]
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