Windows 8.1 Update
Saturday, May 31, 2014
I’m a little late to the party of writing about Windows 8.1 Update, but I wanted to get a fair result. My initial thoughts on it were that I didn’t like any of the improvements they made for keyboard and mouse users. Until a couple days ago when I was forced to use Windows 8.1 long enough to install the Update. I have to concede that the keyboard and mouse improvements are wonderful.…
EventToCommand is now built into Windows 8.1!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
In MVVM code is separated to make it easier to test. You write a View Model and bind it to the View. Sometimes the View has elements that trigger events that you want to listen for in the View Model. This is where EventToCommand comes in handy. However, up till now this has been a bit of a trick to do in Windows 8 because it isn’t built in. You have to use a third party extension or write all the wiring up yourself.…
Upgrading Apps to Windows 8.1 - Deprecated Methods
Thursday, October 3, 2013
In upgrading NOOK from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 there are four methods/properties that we were using that have been deprecated since Windows 8. Here they are and the replacement: ScrollViewer.ScrollToVerticalOffset and ScrollViewer.ScrollToHorizontalOffset have been replaced with ScrollViewer.ChangeView(OffsetX, OffsetY, ZoomLevel) ApplicationView.View has been replaced with ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().Orientation which is an ApplicationViewOrientation DisplayProperties.LogicalDpi has been replaced with DisplayInformation.GetForCurrentView().LogicalDpi The first one has a catch though. Previously if the horizontal scroll width was smaller than the requested position it would fail silently.…