WinRT Live Tile Manager: it’s being deprecated

Two years or so ago, we introduced a component that enabled you to start up and communicate with live tiles in Windows 8 from a WinForms application. So, you know, a non-Windows-RT application talking to a tile on the Start Screen. It was the WinRTLiveTileManager...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

22 October 2015

LiveTileManager v15.2 deprecated WinForms WinRT Win8

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Supporting Windows 8.1

Unless you’ve been taking a diving holiday in the Caribbean since before the //build/ conference (in which case, why didn’t you invite me?), you’ll know all about the Windows 8.1 (code-named ‘Blue’), at least from a user experience perspective. Well,...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

31 July 2013

WinRT Metro XAML

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The first batch of Surfaces arrive for DevExpress

Our favorite delivery guy of the day turned up this morning with some boxes: our first batch of Microsoft Surface tablets. We sat him down and fed him cookies to thank him for being so quick, while we opened up the boxes and stacked the Surfaces for the...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

26 October 2012

WinRT Surface

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Presenting the Windows 8 XAML controls in DXTREME

It’s a funny old world. It seems only like yesterday we had a WinForms suite of controls and an ASP.NET suite of controls for .NET and that was about it. (My first commercial use of DevExpress controls was led by the old original version 1 ASPxGrid mumblety...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

9 October 2012

WinRT Win8 XAML DXTREME

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BUILD Conference: impressions of Windows 8 keynote news

Like many people, I watched the keynote by Steven Sinofsky at BUILD remotely – I am not one of the on-site DevExpress crew this time. Rather than rehash what the keynote revealed (after all you can watch it again if you want to), I thought I’d summarize...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

13 September 2011

WinRT Build Conference Win8

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