Printing a XAML ItemsControl from a Windows 8 Store app 22 May 2013 Diederik-Krols WinRT This article describes how to print the contents of an ItemsControl in a XAML and MVVM based Windows 8 Store app. The code is an evolution of the printing framework that I published a couple of months ago. In a nutshell, this framework wraps the pages to be printed inside a RichTextBlock c... [More]
Using the Documents Library as a database in Windows 8 Store apps 13 May 2013 Diederik-Krols Many Windows 8 Store apps require some amount of structured storage on the client. But in WinRT, local and roaming storage is limited in size, and a client-side relational database does not come out of the box yet. This article describes how to use a folder in the user’s Documents library to s... [More]