How do I detect if I am in design time in my Windows 8 app?
Quick search on google before posting helped me to find the answer. I post it here anyway:
bool designMode = Windows.ApplicationModel.DesignMode.DesignModeEnabled;
DesignMode class documentation on MSDN
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has anyone built a profile using metro ui css, i need some inspiration for an online management system using metro and not able to come across much online. Thanks.
Not necessarily using the Metro UI CSS however these examples will hopefully provide inspiration that you could use to design your own.
Metro drew on clean typography and geometry - heavy use of the grid system and white-space. As Metro has matured it's moved on from the original designs, however Microsoft have continued to champion those original concepts - check out their guidelines for developing apps, and you might find exploring their products Windows Phone, Xbox One, and the Windows 10 redesign that got leaked - This one in-particular has quite a few ideas for profiles.
I first started reading about Metro from Long Zheng's blog - istartedsomething.com. And through him I discovered Mike Guss. Guss was one of the initial designers of the Metro language. He's recently updated his website and has some great Metro work on there:
http://mike-guss.com/#windows-phone
http://mike-guss.com/#xbox-one-1
Apparently there are quite a few "Metro" front-ends, inspiration found here: https://www.sitepoint.com/metro-bootstraps/
A couple examples here:
https://juliankay.com/development/the-metro-inspired-interface/
And more here:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=metro+inspired+user+interface
I wanted to put voice command options into my application. I read stuff online about grammers and SAPI but I can't seem to figure out how to actually use it in my VB.net applications. Does anybody know of any good guides or tutorials for me to use to get started on the subject?
Thanks :)
There is a pretty good tutorial with code sample here that provides a fairly thorough walkthrough of the APIs and discusses the differences between SAPI 5.1 and 5.3.
Is there any guidance available on developing Metro styled silverlight applications? How does one go about designing the UI to match the metro look and feel of WP7. Going by the way windows 8's UI & UX is, I assume the future of how we develop applications for the future versions of the win OS might be changing to look more or less 'metro'.
So what I am asking is, if anyone knows of any resource or has any ideas on how to use the currently available silverlight controls to achieve that look and feel. Is there anything planned to change the controls to match that UX out of the box and more natively?
As you know Metro is not tied to any technology. You can reference WP7 UI guidelines to get some hints; a new version of the guideline is available from Microsoft web site.
For Silverlight 4, you can download themes from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9da0eb8-f31b-4490-85b8-92c2f807df9e
The Cosmopolitan theme when applied to a Silverlight4 application will give you Metro UI.
You can either apply the theme as-is or have a look in the xaml resource files to see how the theme is designed (brushes, fonts, styles etc)
For good UI (including Metro concepts and Blend) reference, I recommend visiting http://www.riagenic.com/
I hope this helps.
Have you missed this session?
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-790C
It shows step-by-step how a WP7 (~Silverlight) application can be be turned into a Metro-style application. Although it doesn't go into design principles.
Edit: haha, missed to see that this question was asked months ago, sorry.
Infragistics have published a free metro theme for Silverlight.
I am seeking a GKVoiceChat example for the iPhone SDK in 4.0 or later. It will surely help with my iPhone game.
There are two Game Kit samples I've seen that include GKVoiceChat.
Search for GCPing in the Apple dev forums. (I'm not posting a link because it's not clear the author wants a public link). This sample is clear and basic, but demonstrates a wide range of working Game Kit multiplayer concepts. Search back over 'all' time, and look for the 'GCPing WWDC2010 - Updated for iOS 4 GM Seed' post.
multiplayer Pong client. Found here.
Haven't looked into sample 2 much yet, but it looks pretty good.
Does anyone know if anyone makes a watermarked textbox control for the compact framework?
I already loked at the following and didn't see one.
Component One Mobile
Pocket PC Controls
Resco Mobile Forms Toolkit
Daniel Moth has a pretty good blog post about how to do this here:
TextBox with cue banner support for Windows Mobile
Best of all it is simple and free!
I've never seen one. This project shows how to do it yourself - not sure if it would work on CF, but I didn't see any obvious non-CF supported stuff in the example.