Tips and Tricks for C# Windows 8 developer: Try to catch the famous ‘It works for me’ bug

As an experienced developer, you do not have bug. Never. At least on your computer. And when sometimes (so rarely that you can barely remember) a bug appears, it is never on your computer.

And in this case, it is a true hell to find at least where in your application the bug is (because as you never have bugs, you do not need to integrate an error log system).

The first solution can be to decline the responsibility with a “It works for me, you should have a problem with your drivers”.

But you can also try to locate it J

This article presents you some tips to find some information about a bug on a non-developer computer.

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Building your own Windows Runtime components to deliver great Metro style appsFor Windows 8, we completely reimagined the platform, allowing you to choose the programming language and technologies you already know to build apps tailored to the device and form factor. With the Windows Runtime, you can even easily use multiple languages within a single app. You can build a great Metro style app with HTML and JavaScript that can interact with the Xbox 360 controller through building your own Windows Runtime component in C++. You can build reusable XAML controls exposed via Windows Runtime components that are instantly consumable by Metro style apps written in both C++ and C#. Essentially, we have let you build apps on the Windows 8 platform using the languages of your choice with no comprises. In this blog post, we talk about what you need to know to build your own Windows Runtime components.

For Windows 8, we completely reimagined the platform, allowing you to choose the programming language and technologies you already know to build apps tailored to the device and form factor. With the Windows Runtime, you can even easily use multiple languages within a single app. You can build a great Metro style app with HTML and JavaScript that can interact with the Xbox 360 controller through building your own Windows Runtime component in C++. You can build reusable XAML controls exposed via Windows Runtime components that are instantly consumable by Metro style apps written in both C++ and C#. Essentially, we have let you build apps on the Windows 8 platform using the languages of your choice with no comprises.

In this blog post, we talk about what you need to know to build your own Windows Runtime components.

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Windows 8 and HTML Part 3: Using the Simulator

Windows 8 and HTML Part 1: Simple Example

Windows 8 and HTML Part 2: 3rd Party Frameworks



When debugging a Windows 8 Metro application, you are not limited to running and debugging the app on your local machine.  If you look closely, you will see that the toolbar button that says “Local Machine” by default (the button with the green arrow) can also act as a drop down.  This drop down allows you to select different targets to deploy and debug your application.  Perhaps in a future blog post I will over the “Remote Machine” option, but for now, let’s click the drop down and set it to “Simulator”.

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Windows 8 Notifications: Programmatic Concepts

In my previous blog post, I provided a high level overview of notifications in Window 8, breaking the functionality down in terms of the user experience (tiles, toast, and badges) and delivery mechanisms (local, scheduled, periodic, and push). This post will look at the common programmatic concepts of the user experience: what you can do with tiles, toast and badges, and how you accomplish that within code. Subsequent blogs posts will focus more deeply on the specific delivery mechanisms.

What is a Notification?

At its very core a notification is simply a bit of information you wish to convey to the user, and it’s the Windows 8 runtime that provides a framework for both how and when the notifications appear. Regardless of the user experience, the structure of a notification is provided via an XML template. There are predefined templates for tile, toast and badge notifications, and every notification must comply with one of these templates.

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