I am facing a tiny development project for an Intel Atom based Windows 7 tablet Motion LE1600 or a Fujitsu 5112.
I have never done Windows tablet development. My main concern is what are my options here? I am looking towards a pure managed solution using NET 4 and WPF. Is that possible?
Does Windows 7 tablet fall into a category of mobile development?
Any help is appreciated. I could not find many online resources describing these topics.
Here in this portal you will find some example with WPF and tablets and here with more explanation.
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I have been investigating into application (not games) development on Xbox but i could not find any help or tutorial which i could use as a starting point for my project like a basic template.
I have an Xbox Live Account which i know is needed for app submission.
I have gone through alot of links like this
But it doesnt provide help on following points like :
1.Which IDE to use (does VS 2012 for Windows Phone or for Windows 8 work?)
2.is C# the language to use(i would prefer to use this)
3.Any basic starter app/template (with newest SDK, as i have seen a few samples they fail to load)
Any help would be largely appreciated
You can't develop Apps for Xbox (360 or one) with the public SDK (XNA).
Xna allows you to create video game for the indie market only.
To be able to create video game for XBLA market or apps store, you need to be a official video game editor/compagny and in partnership with Microsoft.
Visual Studios seems to be what most developers would use for xbox.
As for languages if your looking to develop apps for xbox and not games, you could use C# or WPF.
Hope this was a bit helpful.
Can I run RT apps on windows phone, or windows 8 phone apps on windows 8 RT or PRO?
If I need to develop an app to run on RT tablets and on windows 8 phones, what should I do?
EDIT
When Microsoft will provide a unified way to develop apps????
Am I requested to develop tons of apps to run on all of Microsoft platforms, I am not an Apple fan at all, but Microsoft should learn more and more from them, I spent and am spending all of my time chasing Microsoft techniques, it is very very annoying!!! :(
No,
But you can share code through the use of Portable Class Libraries or linked files.
I recently wrote two articles about how to achieve this:
The first one is about whether to choose PCL's or linked files:
http://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/03/27/portable-class-libraries-or-source-code-sharing/
The second one is about how to work around the limitations of PCL's:
http://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/02/24/patterns-for-sharing-code-in-windows-phone-and-windows-8-applications/
No. The two runtimes are not compatible.
If I need to develop an app to run on RT tablets and on windows 8 phones, what should I do?
You can use the portable class libraries to save logic, but not the presentation code.
You would then build your UI on each platform, using the appropriate tools for the platform.
You can't just run a xap on a tablet. You CAN however take almost all of the XAML and C# uncompiled code and recompile for the tablet. You just need to fix some of the idiosyncrasies in the syntax. Same goes for Windows 8 Pro.
I would like to have some basic communication between some apps we are building. I have been researching on wifi direct, which sounds perfect, but I cannot find much information on it for Windows 7 and WPF (C#).
When I search around all I seem to get is Windows 8 support and Android questions.
Is this a standard that has been implemented by Windows 7? Can I use the features in a C# WPF app? If so, some reference materials would be great if you know of any.
Thanks.
Wifi direct is not implemented in Windows 7, although there may be some 3rd party apps available that implement it.
It is a new feature built into windows 8. Here's a presentation that goes over the feature in detail: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/HW-329T
I am a Dot net C# developer web and desktop apps, recently I have decided to begin development for windows phone 7
from the initial searching on the internet I found that I could user silver-light or XNA Framework for developing on WP7
I do not know any thing about both of them, so do I have to learn both of them to be able to develop WP7 APPS or just one is enough
also Which is better for development if one is enough!
Thanks in advance.
There is no good answer for this question if you do not describe application you want to develop. Both technologies are useful for different purposes. I had the same problem with my applications and those my conclusions:
Silverlight: better for business applications when you have small amount of animations (GPU usage)
XNA: high quality games and rich animations
Of course you can use also Silverlight for games and XNA for business application but generally I spot that it will not work well in most cases.
I first start to implement my application in Silverligh (app with lots of animations) but performance was poor so I decided to switch to XNA. If you want to learn basics of both read Charles Petzold Programming Windows Phone 7
Welcome to WP7 community.
Basically if you want to make event-driven applications, Silverlight is the answer and if your code depends on continuously running loop(like in a game) XNA is the thing.
As u have said dat u develop apps, Silverlight is the light for your question.
You can get lots of samples on net. The official site is http://www.create.msdn.com.
I think Silverlight is easier to start with.
to simplify, Silverlight is intended to be for apps, while XNA is intended to be for games.
A litle while ago I was on Codeproject and came across a cool little tesxteditor and the whole form was made out of aero-glass, and the whole textbox was too. But I can't find it anymore. Does anybody know where it's gone? Or how I can make my Windows Form completely made out of Aero Glass?
Thank you :)
This is for windows forms. not for WPF.
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/04/18/578637.aspx
Could this be what you're after...
Enable Vista glass effect on a borderless WPF window
So this time with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft provides the Windows 7 API Code Pack. The Windows 7 API Code Pack not only just allows incorporating the aero glass effect, but many other features which will let you to work more conveniently with Windows 7.
The Windows API code pack allows developers to develop those features which are not available with .NET Framework. So to get started visit:
Windows® Code Pack API for Windows 7 & Windows Vista
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack
Windows Training Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1C333F06-FADB-4D93-9C80-402621C600E7&displaylang=en
The training kit includes the demos and presentations, hand-on labs for developers. I haven't yet started with Windows 7 development. But as soon as I get started I will blog some demo for Windows 7.