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Creating A RadCartesianChart – Line Graph
In this post, I will explore creating a line chart using the RadCartesianChart from the Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls. You can Download Telerik Widows 8 Controls here. Figure 1 shows the chart we wish...
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Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion
In Part 3 of this little mini-series on data binding in Windows 8 we looked at Element Binding. Today, we’ll take a look at Data Conversion. At times the data in your business object (the source for...
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Creating a Bar Chart with RadCartesianChart, part of Telerik Windows 8 UI...
In an earlier blog post I reviewed how to create a line chart using RadChart for Metro. In this blog post I will review how to create a bar chart, and no doubt you will notice some striking...
View ArticleWindows 8 & Data Binding. Part 5–Binding to Lists
In Part 4 of this mini-series on data binding we looked at Data Conversion. Today we look at binding a UI Element to a list of objects. The trick in binding to a list, is to teach the control how to...
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RadControls for Metro (XAML)–Date and Time Pickers
Surprisingly, Visual Studio for Windows 8 XAML does not come with either a date or a time picker. Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. The RadControls For Metro suite of controls includes a very...
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Showing 4 Data Points At Once: Financial Chart
Most charts show one point at a time on a Cartesian (x/y) coordinate. That is, a single point might indicate that July sales were $525MM while August sales (a second point) were $350MM. The chart...
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Pie Chart: Taking Control of the Label
It is pretty straight-forward to create a pie chart with a simple label that identifies the “category” for each slice. What is a bit trickier is to modify that label so that it shows not only the...
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Building Your First Win8 Enterprise App
You are a business analyst charged with understanding the retail market. You’ve decided to create an application that will display the relative revenues for the key stores in your district. Obtaining...
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Searching in Windows 8
Windows 8 Store Applications can take advantage of the shared “Charms” that you see when you swipe in from the right edge of your Windows 8 device (or press Win-C). The top charm is searching and it...
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Windows 8–Who Cares?
I am in Europe this week and for the next three weeks, traveling from city to city and giving presentations on Windows 8. Along the way I will be distilling these presentations into blog posts, adding...
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Windows 8 App Bars
In my previous posting I said that I’d be distilling parts of my presentations into blog posts. This post continues that idea, focusing on the App Bar. If we are going to place Content Before Chrome...
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Windows 8–Search Suggestions
I recently started a series of postings from my tour of presentations in Europe and the UK. Today I’d like to return to Searching (which I started to cover here), and this time take a look at what it...
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Creating A Live Tile In Windows 8
Continuing my series of Blog posts that distill the presentations I’m giving this month in Europe and the UK, today I’ll take a look at creating a Live Tile. Live tiles tell the user that something...
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Windows 8–Secondary Tiles
Continuing my series based on the presentations I’m giving on Europe, today I return to Tiles to look at creating Secondary tiles. A secondary tile can be created by the user and pinned to the start...
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Windows 8–Toast Notification
Continuing my series based on the presentations I’m giving in Europe, today I turn to toast notifications. As with Tiles, Toast notifications are a great way to let the user know that something...
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RadAutoCompleteBox–An Annotated Demo
In our Q3 Webinar, I demonstrated the RadAutoCompleteBox, part of the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF. In this blog post, I will walk through that demo in detail. The demo itself is extracted and...
View ArticleSlides, Source Code and Video to the "UI Suite for Windows 8" Webinar Now...
We want to thank you all for attending the Windows 8 Webinar yesterday. As promised, all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions,...
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Creating A Great Windows 8 Tile With XAML RadControls for Windows 8
Our new RadControls for Windows 8 offers a number of controls to make your application look and perform better. One of the key features is the new set of HubTiles. These are easy to work with, and...
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Creating a Windows 8 Application From Scratch
Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch. That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil)...
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