Miguel de Icaza: don’t blame Google for Microsoft’s contempt for developers

By tim, on May 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Xamarin’s Miguel de Icaza (founder of the Mono project) has complained on Twitter about Microsoft’s Windows Division’s “contempt for developers” when it created the Windows Runtime and a “4th incompatible Xaml stack”, in a conversation prompted by the company’s spat with Google over the YouTube app for Windows Phone. Google wants this removed because it

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May 16th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: development, microsoft, software development | 2 comments

Infragistics building cross-platform development strategy on XAML says CEO

By tim, on November 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO at Infragistics, maker of components for Windows, web and mobile development platforms. Windows developers with long memories will remember Sheridan software, who created products including Data Widgets and VBAssist. Infragistics was formed in 2000 when Sheridan merged with another company, ProtoView.

In other words, this is a company

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November 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: .net, apple, development, mobile, professional, software, software development, visual studio, web authoring, windows | One comment

Hands on Windows 8 development: Twitter and hyperlink hassles

By tim, on October 19th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been messing around with a Windows 8 app to present content from ITWriting.com in an app, mainly as a learning exercise. I came up with the idea of showing recent tweets on the main page of the app. Like this:

I thought this would be easy, but encountered several problems. I am

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October 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: .net, software development, visual studio, windows | 5 comments

Developing a Windows Runtime app: some observations

By tim, on August 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

What would it take to create a Windows 8 Modern UI content reader for this site? Just for fun, I built a simple one; or rather, I slightly adapted Microsoft’s Metro style blog reader tutorial.

The app only has four screens (or pages) but despite its simplicity I found the tutorial somewhat fiddly. Getting the

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August 24th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: .net, microsoft, professional, software development, windows | 2 comments