Time to rest

Time to get some rest and stop working from some weeks now everyday will be sunday… for about for weeks

 

We will be back soon

Windows 8 train material

This week i had give for the second time this year a train session for quick ignition in to the windows 8 development.

Here the way i see things:

– First we should understand the user and the ui principles to real enter in to the metro world

– Then we need to know how the platform is build, to do the right choices

– Then we need to start developing testing and studying

For the ones who follow me where you have the slides i use in this  sessions feel free to use share and if you have any question feel free to ask.

Windows 8 quick start ux from Alexandre Marreiros

Windows 8 quick start dev from Alexandre Marreiros

Programming Windows 8 with HTML 5 javascript & C#

One off the fantastic things about the new Windows Metro Kernel is the language projection that enable us to use almost the same runtime in to different languages the supported language that we prefer.

But…there is always a but isn’t, one-off the reasons to have a set off tools is because tools are made with a propose in mind with a best usage context that is the same story when we are using language programming and technology that’s way we have invented so many.

When developing to Windows 8 apparently many people don´t know that is possible to use in the same app the different languages that windows 8 supports.

This is very powerful and useful especially when using HTML 5 with Javascript. This 2 technologies are very powerful in Windows 8 and consider as a first citizen technologies when talking about building Windows 8 Metro. But Javascript isn’ t Object oriented, Javascript isn’t organized we have different technical approaches to Javascript that allow us to   create this and other skills but we should never go against the nature off a technology or we will louse more than we will gain.

The mix of the best of 2 worlds cn be very powerful when building real powerful apps. Javascript is better for animations ans Jason, but C# is better for security or for long processing quests. In the Programamtic model off windows 8 we can create components in different CLI languages that we can consume from javascript. To do that we should output our file as a WinMDFile, as shown on the figure.

and the we can call our .net functions and classes from the Javascript. This is done from the properties of your project.

Hope this post can be useful, feel free to ask.