Filip ‘xyzzer’ Skakun
UX passionate, NUI/GUI UI developer, specializing in Microsoft technologies from WinAPI and GDI through WinForms to Surface/WPF/Silverlight, DirectX & WinRT. Developer at Vectoform by day. My words are mine and mine only.
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Tag Archives: Windows 8
Impressions of Windows 8 Part 2 of 2
This is the second part of my impressions of Windows 8. You can read the previous part here.
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Tagged Metro, Metro Style Apps, Opinion, Speculation, Tiles, UI, User Experience, UX, Windows 8
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Impressions of Windows 8 Part 1 of 2
I have been using the Windows 8 Preview For six months now – the Developer Preview since its public release in September and more recently, the Consumer Preview that was made available in February. I have used Windows 8 on … Continue reading
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Tagged Metro, Metro Style Apps, Opinion, Speculation, Tiles, UI, User Experience, UX, Windows 8
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WinRT/Metro Style App Data
I was trying to find out where the WinRT apps files are stored and found 3 locations. Not sure how much benefit would be in digging deeper, but this could help in debugging your or reverse engineering someone else’s applications…
A path from C/C++ to C# and back to C++
About ten years ago I started my first full time programming job. I was working on some business software written in C/C++. I say C/C++ instead of just C++ because it was written mostly in C with classes – with … Continue reading
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Tagged .NET, C#, C++/CLI, C++/CX, DirectX, Windows 8, WinRT
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Beginning WinRT development
I finally found some time to take a look at Windows 8 development + a shiny Build edition Samsung Series 7 Slate device, so it is time to start taking apart this WinRT development thing.I am starting by setting up … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, UserControl, Visual Studio, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML
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