Pages

Monday, 23 July 2012

Using the Metro Share Contract With Custom Data

Using the Metro Share Contract With Custom Data
In a few months Windows 8 will be released.  This is an exciting, reimagining of the Windows operating system.  With this new operating system comes a new application paradigm.  Metro applications are optimized for tablets device.  These new applications operate in a restrictive,  sandbox environment.  This is part of the security that is intended to keep user’s systems safe.  Windows developers are used to being able to access all parts of the system when developing their applications. So sharing data between applications is as easy as posting the data to a common location that both applications can access.  This could include a local database. This is not possible with Metro applications.

Read full article here

No comments:

Post a Comment

Web Informer Button