Transforming SVG graphics to XAML Metro Icons 27 July 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT This short article shows how to pimp your Windows 8 Metro apps with native XAML icons that are created from W3C Scalable Vector Graphics. SVG graphics are XML documents, and hence should be easily translatable into an other XML schema, such as XPS (the te... [More]
The taming of the Metro GridView 10 July 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT This article describes how to restyle the Metro GridView to host a single page app like the sample Weather and Finance apps. I'll show you how to get rid of the default disco effects of this control - like the swiping behavior and the pressed animation. For this article... [More]