Using the CarouselPanel in Windows 8 Metro 28 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT Warning: content applies to Windows 8 Consumer Preview only. In the current release, the CarouselPanel can not be used in stand alone mode anymore. This short article describes how to use the CarouselPanel in a Windows 8 Consumer Preview Metro style app. Don't expect the spectacular rotating 3D eff... [More]
A StringFormat converter for Windows 8 Metro 20 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT Some people seem to think that the world has only one language, one currency, and one way to represent a date, a time, or a number. So WinRT comes without a StringFormat option in data binding. I know for sure that I never built a WPF or Silverlight application without extensively using that StringF... [More]
A Radial Gauge custom control for Windows 8 Metro 09 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT A long time ago in a galaxy actually not so far away, Colin Eberhardt wrote a Radial Gauge custom control for Silverlight in less than six hours. It had everything a gauge should have: a needle, and a scale with tick markers and labels. Hell, it even had colored quality range indicato... [More]
Databinding to the VariableSizedWrapGrid in Windows 8 Metro 07 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT This article describes how to implement data binding and using variable sized cells in a VariableSizedWrapGrid control in a Windows 8 Metro application, Customer Preview release. The VariableSizedWrapGrid control exposes the ColumnSpan and RowSpan attached properties. These allow to specify the numb... [More]
Using Grouped GridView Navigation in Windows 8 Metro 02 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT This article describes how you can navigate through large amounts of data in a Metro application, on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. We'll use a grouped and a non-grouped GridViews, a SemanticZoom, a WrapGrid, and a VariableSizedWrapGrid control. The app was built with the brand new V... [More]