Category Archives: Metro

Inter-Process communication with protocol association in WinRT – Part 3

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

The previous post presented how file association is used to exchange information between Windows Store Apps (WSAs) and Desktop Apps (DAs). The same kind of feature can be provided by the protocol association. WARNING: all these techniques are violating the point … Continue reading →

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Inter-Process Communication with WinRT – Part 1

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

Since the pre-release of Windows 8 at the Microsoft BUILD conference in 2011, I’ve been investigating the different ways for a Windows Store App (WSA in the rest of the post) to interact with either other WSAs or Desktop Apps … Continue reading →

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BUILD conference session about Windows Store Apps and WinRT

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

While I’m finishing a post about Inter-Process Communication in WinRT, here is a list of sessions related to Windows Store Application for those who were not lucky enough to attend the last BUILD conference in Redmond. For each, you’ll find … Continue reading →

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Missing BCL types in WinRT

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

Download BCLDiff (x86 | x64) In a previous post, I detailed how the .NET 4.5 assemblies of the BCL are packaged in Desktop and Windows 8 managed Apps. When you starts coding your first Win8 Apps, you quickly end up … Continue reading →

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Forcing Metro Apps to terminate

Posted on July 8, 2012 by

As explained in Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps, Windows 8 optimizes the way RAM is dedicated to running processes. Metro Apps are even more impacted than just reclaiming memory from their working set because the system can decide to … Continue reading →

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Investigating BCL differences between .NET and Metro/WinRT

Posted on June 16, 2012 by

In the previous post, I’ve explained how to use WinRT APIs from a .NET Desktop application to list the installed Metro App packages. This post is dedicated to the other side of the story: what part of the Microsoft .NET … Continue reading →

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How to call WinRT APIs from C# Desktop applications – list the installed Metro packages

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

As Jaime Rodriguez detailed in April, Windows 8 Excellence Labs are made to help Metro developers to get a token which allows them to submit their application to the Windows Store with high confidence. I’m lucky enough to be part … Continue reading →

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It’s time for Windows 8 Release Preview!

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

As a Windows developer, here are the next steps for you to continue your journey in Windows 8: Navigate to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download and download the Release Preview. Get the updated samples from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows-8-Modern-Style-App-Samples. Download your localized version of Visual Studio 2012 … Continue reading →

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Last day at $10 for Petzold Metro|WinRT book!

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Look at this blog post for details I hope this helps

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Thanks Mark!

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

The first tool I’ve launched during my first tests with Metro applications was DebugView from SysInternals. This utility is notified when your application is calling the Win32 OutputDebugString function outside of a debugger (see this CodeProject article about a simple … Continue reading →

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