I published a note earlier about me vouching to maintain WinRT file based database project for foreseeable future. As a result, I just updated the project’s download page and NuGet package to version 0.6 which supports the latest release preview of WinRT / Windows 8. You can download full source code here or examine NuGet …
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I already mentioned previously that SQLite will be supported on WinRT, provided an excellent choice for storage needs if those involve a need for relational database engine. Tim Heuer blogged about how to compile SQLite source code, which is a bit of a chore. Luckily you can now download precompiled binaries for both 64 and …
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I am not sure if I am the only one, but I do miss old Windows 7 style menu in Windows 8. The other day I wanted to see what programs were installed under Visual Studio 11, but I could not figure it out. I accidentally stumbled upon this functionality and wanted to share it. …
Atlanta Code Camp too place yesterday, May 19 at Southern Polytechnic campus. I just want to post my presentations here as promised. I did two talks as you can see below. Entity Framework Code First – Beyond the Basics This session cover scenarios beyond the basics of EF Code First usage. Topics such as creation …
As I mentioned before, I am going to write the last post about integrating Windows 8 Metro applications with Azure. First of, let’s take a look at securing our service with Forms Authentication. I blogged about that as well, and the only change is that I am going to use REST for authentication service. Here …
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I wanted to start a short series of posts, describing my experience in building simple Windows 8 Metro application using XAML, C#, and a service in Azure. You can find my second post at http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2012/05/windows-8-metro-applications-and-the-azure-cont/ The application is very simple, it is a going to be a famous quote app, where the user can get …
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I mentioned months before my WinRT database project. I was going to stop working on it, but unfortunately as of now there is no good alternative to structured storage in WinRT applications. SQLite team is working on WinRT version, but there is no projected date as far as I know. So, upon some thinking I …
In this post I am going to describe a solution to the following problem. I would like to create a single WCF Service and expose it via a standard SOAP endpoint and REST endpoint using Entity Framework, WCF and WCF REST. Then I would like to consume it from WinRT from two different view models …
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Today I decided to setup Windows 8 VM on my laptop to make it easier to convert my existing project for Windows Phone to WinRT. The first one I wanted to update was isolated storage database. So, I wanted to document my experience so that I could do it again if I need to. There …
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You can download a number of samples for Metro style applications from MSDN Code site. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows-Developer-Preview-6b53adbb Enjoy.