Building Enterprise Side-loaded apps with OWIN 29 April 2014 Diederik-Krols Enterprise Windows Apps This article shows how a side-loaded line-of-business Windows app can communicate through HTTP with a locally installed desktop component (a .NET class library) by making use of the Open Web Interface for .NET. Apps that are loaded from the Store can still not leave the sandbox and can only connect ... [More]
Building Enterprise apps using Brokered Windows Runtime Components 25 April 2014 Diederik-Krols Enterprise Windows Apps This article shows step by step how to connect a side-loaded modern app to a legacy component via the “Brokered Windows Runtime Components for Side-Loaded applications” feature. This feature comes with Windows 8.1 Update and allows Modern apps to break outside the AppContainer and connect to desktop... [More]
A Radial Gauge for Universal Windows Apps 14 April 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps This article presents a modern radial gauge Custom Control, hosted in a Portable Class Library for Universal Windows apps. Visual Studio Update 2 comes with the concept of Universal Apps that can run on Windows PC’s, tablets, phones and the XBox. For an introduction to this new breed of apps, check ... [More]
Using OneDrive files in Windows Platform Apps – Part Deux 09 April 2014 Diederik-Krols WinRT This article presents a handful of building blocks for some more advanced OneDrive use cases in Windows 8 apps, like: transparently switching between a local folder and a OneDrive working folder, synchronizing a local folder with a OneDrive folder, sharing a OneDrive folder across devices, shari... [More]