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Getting Started with the Windows 8 App Development

Microsoft had released Windows 8 Release Preview which can be downloaded from the Official Windows 8 website. Windows 8 includes some interesting features like Live Tiles, Windows 8 UI (Code named "Metro") and more importantly the UI which looks almost the same like my Windows Phone :)

What is Windows 8 Read More →

Free Download – CSS3 Microsoft-Metro Buttons

CSS3 Microsoft-Metro Buttons is an implementation of Microsoft's Metro buttons.

As per the developer, the CSS3 Microsoft-Metro Buttons is inspired by Tim O'Donnell's CSS3 Google Buttons, Twitter Bootstrap, and Microsoft Icons from glyphicons.com and SyncFusion's Metro Studio.

CSS3 Microsoft-Metro Buttons weighs about 21 KB and is a light weight and easy to Read More →

Callisto – A toolkit for XAML Metro style apps for Windows 8

Tim Heuer in his blog announces the Callisto , a toolkit for XAML Metro style apps for Windows 8.

What is Callisto?

Callisto is a toolkit and helper libraries with additional controls for XAML Metro style apps .

"The XAML framework in Windows.UI.Xaml is great, but has some functionality that isn't Read More →

SyncFusion’s Metro Studio 1 with 600 Metro style Icons

Metro Studio 1 allows you to create Icons for Metro apps (Windows Phone, and Windows 8).

These icons can be used across all the .NET applications like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WPF etc.

Syncfusion Metro Studio has a collection of nearly 600 Metro-style icons.

Icons here come as vector based and enable you Read More →

Webinar – Developing Windows 8 Metro Applications with Embarcadero Prism

Embarcadero is organizing a webinar on the topic Developing Windows 8 Metro Applications with Embarcadero Prism on May 29, 2012 from 6.00 AM PDT.

The Webinar - Developing Windows 8 Metro Applications with Embarcadero Prism will be presented by Jim McKeeth.

In this session, you will learn how to use the latest Read More →

Metro theme for jQuery Mobile

Metro styled theme is now made available jQuery Mobile by Microsoft Open Technologies . jQuery Mobile is a open source Mobile UI framework , touch optimized framework that involves HTML5 and jQuery Javascript library. Abu Obeida in the interoperability @ microsoft blog stated that
"The theme enables HTML5 pages to Read More →

Metro UI for Microsoft Dynamics

Microsoft used the Metro UI for Windows Phone , Windows 8 and few more products and now its the Microsoft Dynamics business to get the Metro UI . Few weeks back at Convergence , Microsoft's annual gathering of Dynamics partners , Microsoft provided a sneak preview of Microsoft Dynamics with Metro Read More →

Different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 in Metro UI ?

If you are one of those users who use command prompt more frequently , then below are different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 .

Different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 in Metro UI ?

1. Press the Windows Key + R and type cmd Read More →

How to Close Metro App in Windows 8 ?

In this blog post , i will share a small tip on how to Close Metro App in Windows 8 . I have been using Windows 8 Consumer Preview on one of the Virtual Machine and have often used the below shortcuts to close the Metro App . First one is the Read More →

Microsoft Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app

Microsoft in its Windows Developer Center has posted a design case study documentation that compares iPad App development with Windows 8 Metro style app development. The Design case study documentation is more of a design comparision of iPad and Windows 8 Metro style app showing hoe iPas based photo journal app Read More →

Mozilla’s Metro Style Firefox for Windows 8

Mozilla has announced that it plans to release a Metro Style Firefox for Windows 8. The new Metro Style Firefox for Windows 8 will be based on the open source Gecko based browser engine and will include a full screen and touch interaction enhancements . The Metro Style Firefox for Windows 8 Read More →
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