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Tweet Bing Maps SDK is available for Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows 8 release preview, Bing Maps SDK is easy fast and cool control that you can use in your Metro App. Download Demo Project Step 1: Maps Developer Account Before you can use Bing Sdk from Windows 8 Metro App you need Maps Developer Account, open http://www.bingmapsportal.com/ , create or enter with existing Windows Live account. Choose “ Create or view keys ” and create new Key for your application. Copy and save that key, create...
In my previous post Convert VS 11 Beta Metro Projects To VS 2012 RC I talked about upgrading the Project file from Beta to RC, in this post I’ll try to talk about all changes made from Beta to RC. I don’t know all the breaking changes in JavaScript and C# but I collect all the breaking changes from the application and games I develop and I’ll show them here. JavaScript + HTML Type Old Value New Value Comment Event MSGestureTap onclick Event MSGestureHold oncontextmenu Method getPointerList...
Tweet Over the last posts I talked about basic features in Windows 8 Metro Apps in BLOCKED SCRIPT Settings Message Dialog Splash Screen The feature I’m going to show you now isn’t part of JavaScript Metro app and you need to write some code and use Metro Touch Event called – MSPointerMove. The feature I’m going to simulate is Pinch - Download Demo Project In this post I’ve created a Pinch functionality to increase and decrease zoom on specific item. Step 1: Create JavaScript Metro Project In the...
Tweet When creating an Win 8 Metro App you define splash screen with a single image, what if you want to do more… For example show some animations, load your resources before the application loads and more. In this post I’ll show you how to create custom Splash Screen and control the load event so you know when the loading is over and your user can start using the application. In my demo I’ll display some canvas animation and a timer (from 10s) until going to the main page. Download Demo Project...