I am just curious if there is a way to package up a Windows 8 Metro application to distribute it to others with the Windows 8 Developer Preview installed? It would be nice to be able to allow someo...

I'm considering developing a free non-enterprise Windows 8-style application. I would like to be able to distribute it with no fees charged to myself or users. (Please not that I am not asking abou...

I went to create a simple one-way SHA-256 hash in WinRT today and realized it didn't work. I did a validation and apparently got this: ◦API System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Managed in MSCORLIB...

Feels like I'm missing something stupid here, but what's the recommended method to listen to the click event on a listview? At the moment I've got: WinJS.Utilities.query(".menuHolder").listen("cl...

I have been tasked with writing a simple one-time-use Metro/windows store/modern UI (whatever you want to call it now) app for windows 8; it wouldn't be appropriate to try to get it into the store,...

I have found that in Windows 8 apps, a Page's constructor always gets called again when navigating back to this page, however this is not the case in Windows Phone 7 apps. Because of this behavior...

I'm analyzing existing Windows Store applications and modifying them to make sure my company's obfuscator works with them. I've ran into a bit of a problem doing that though. I can grab an APPX p...

Here is an Interface, taken from my attempt to port MemBus, an Event Aggregator I maintain, to the Windows runtime world: public interface ISubscriber { IDisposable Subscribe<M>(Action<M...

My Win RT application which has worked with VS2012RC on a Windows 8 beta, has now with the final versions of visual studio and windows 8 pro the problem, that creating/opening a file within OnSuspe...