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Getting started with Metro, JS and blend
Intro In this first tutorial in a series about building a Windows 8 application with JavaScript, HMTL and CSS using Expression Blend 5, we’re going to make a start on a very simple game. In this game...
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While working on the port of my game Orbizoid to Windows 8 I ran into an issue with the starfield in de background of the game. The starfield was running in Expression Blend too. At first this was...
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SFX in WinJS
When working on my entry for the Js13kGames contest I was looking for a synthesizer or sound generator for HTML5. I came across a javascript port of an a synthesizer in actionscript. It’s build by...
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About Orbizoid
Intro A few weeks ago my first Windows Store app was certified and it’s available for download now. The game is a rebuild of the game I build for the Js13k contest a while back. Because I wasn’t...
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Combining WinJS, TypeScript, jQuery and KnockOut
In this tutorial we’re going to build a very simple Windows Store application that uses jQuery and Knockout to get some data from the internet and show this in a GridView. I’ll show you how you create...
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Windows Store app with TypeScript and Knockout
In this tutorial we’re going to make a very simple Windows Store app that uses TypeScript. The app is going to use Knockout to handle user input to search patterns on http://colourlovers.com. I assume...
View ArticleWinJS Promises
For a while now I wanted to dive a little deeper into Promises, so I decided to write this tutorial. For this tutorial I used the WinJS version as available on GitHub. If you want to follow along...
View ArticleDetecting Phone, Desktop or Web with WinJS
I’m my previous post I showed how you can add a website to a universal project and share some JavaScript between all three. This is nice, but I will run into a situation where you’ll have some code...
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List item delay in Pivot
In one of my apps I wanted to have the items in a list with the list being in a Pivot control. I wanted to have the items slide in with a little delay, like they are in the Windows Phone mail app. I’ve...
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Angular in a Windows Store app
I was trying to use Angular JS in a Windows store app and had some issues with Angular being “unsafe”. Using Angular JS in a JavaScript Windows Store app turned out to be pretty easy. Here’s how to do...
View ArticleWinJS Classes and Namespaces
WinJS provides you with a way to create namespaces and work with classes in your code. It provides functionality to create derivatives of your classes and combine them using mixins. Class and Namespace...
View ArticleAngular in a Windows Store app – Servicing
Today I’m adding an AngularJS service to the Windows Store project in Visual Studio. This service is making a call to an external webservice which returns some JSON data. This controller uses a promise...
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Speaking about JavaScript UWP apps.
Last week I was invited by iSense to give a presentation about JavaScript Frameworks in Universal Windows Platform Apps. I decided my personal goal was to show people that JavaScript is a perfectly...
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Combining WinJS, TypeScript, jQuery and KnockOut
In this tutorial we’re going to build a very simple Windows Store application that uses jQuery and Knockout to get some data from the internet and show this in a GridView. I’ll show you how you create...
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Windows Store app with TypeScript and Knockout
In this tutorial we’re going to make a very simple Windows Store app that uses TypeScript. The app is going to use Knockout to handle user input to search patterns on http://colourlovers.com. I assume...
View ArticleWinJS Promises
For a while now I wanted to dive a little deeper into Promises, so I decided to write this tutorial. For this tutorial I used the WinJS version as available on GitHub. If you want to follow along...
View ArticleDetecting Phone, Desktop or Web with WinJS
I’m my previous post I showed how you can add a website to a universal project and share some JavaScript between all three. This is nice, but I will run into a situation where you’ll have some code...
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List item delay in Pivot
In one of my apps I wanted to have the items in a list with the list being in a Pivot control. I wanted to have the items slide in with a little delay, like they are in the Windows Phone mail app. I’ve...
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Angular in a Windows Store app
I was trying to use Angular JS in a Windows store app and had some issues with Angular being “unsafe”. Using Angular JS in a JavaScript Windows Store app turned out to be pretty easy. Here’s how to do...
View ArticleWinJS Classes and Namespaces
WinJS provides you with a way to create namespaces and work with classes in your code. It provides functionality to create derivatives of your classes and combine them using mixins. Class and Namespace...
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