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  • How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile
    Jeremy Likness

    I've been working on Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML . This chapter focuses on tiles and toast notifications. In the Windows 8 runtime, it is incredibly easy to prompt the user to pin a secondary tile. This is a tile that has a deep link for con...

  • The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World
    Jeremy Likness

    In my last blog post , I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await keywords. I mentioned that the post was focused on the .NET Framework only because the Windows Runtime handles these operations differently. In this post, I’ll cover what thos...

  • The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await
    Jeremy Likness

    Almost any software application today will likely contain a long-running process. “Long-running” may be a relative term but in the Windows Runtime it is specifically anything that could take longer than 50ms to execute. That’s a fairly small window, and it means those operations will need to run con...