I was installing Windows 10 Technical Preview on my machine last month, and I was welcomed by this nice installer screen: The first thing I noticed in this screen is the nice progress ring in the middle. Unfortunately, non of the Winrt native controls we have support this behavior (progress …
This control was inspired from OneNote Windows 8 modern app. It allows you to show a nice circular contextual menu. Let’s start by adding the control to the root grid: To open the radial menu, IsOpen property should be changed to true Now lets start adding couple of items …
This is another control I’ve created, which is very simple yet extremely useful. In this post I’ll walk you through the features and how to use them: Progress bar In case you’re showing the user a big image that’s being downlaoded from the internet, It’s very useful to show the …
Though having a menu bar in a Windows store app is something unusual (and maybe against the design guidelines), I thought it would be useful for some specific apps. Also it will come handy in Windows 10 as the apps can work now in separate windows (instead of full screen) …
In one of my projects at work I needed to use a Color Picker, so as usual, I was hoping to find something good through nuget. Much to my surprise I couldn’t find a decent ColorPicker that would work for Universal Apps, or at least nothing that’s good enough for …
I’m very glad to announce that I’ve been awarded the MVP award (Windows Platform Development). This year will be busy for sure!
