At BASTA! (.NET-conference in Mainz/Germany) I gave an interview about Windows 8 and developing Windows Store Apps. You can watch it directly here: You can also read an article about the topic here: Link to article Thomas

In Windows Store Apps there are three kinds of Touch-Events: Gesture Events – those are high-level-events like Tapped or RightTapped. Pointer-Events – low-level-events like PointerPressed, PointerMoved, PointerReleased. Manipulation-Events – low-level...

I’m proud to announce that the ultimate handbook about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in .NET 4.5 is in stores now. Order your copy of the German-Speaking Topseller about WPF directly here on Amazon: Order WPF-Book on Amazon.de Find all the Details...

Danke für die zahlreiche Teilnahme an meiner Session zu den WinRT-Controls zum Entwickeln von Windows Store Apps. Es war eine Level 3 (von 3) Session. Wie versprochen sind die Slides und Live-Demos unter folgendem Link verfügbar: www.thomasclaudiushuber...

Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012, veranstalten Microsoft und Trivadis in Glattbrugg (Zürich) ein kostenfreies Event rund um Windows 8, Windows Store Apps & Co. Allerdings sollten Sie sich für eine Anmeldung beeilen, da die Anzahl der Teilnehmer beschränkt...

Die BASTA! ist vorbei. Vielen Dank an die Teilnehmer, die Aussteller, die Organisatoren und natürlich besonders an die Besucher meiner Sessions und der Keynote. Mir hat es sehr viel Spaß gemacht und ich freue mich bereits auf die BASTA! Spring in Darmstadt...

Microsoft’s new marketplace for Windows-Apps – called the Windows Store – is open for all developers since yesterday. Before only a limited amount of developers and companies have been able to register for app submission. Now every individual...

This post is part of a series about creating Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. Find the Content of the series here: Windows Store-apps with XAML and C# blog-series Through the past weeks there’ve been many names around for the apps running in...

This post is part of a series about creating Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. Find the Content of the series here: Windows Store-apps with XAML and C# blog-series Last weekend I’ve finished the XAML-chapter of my upcoming book about developing Windows...

Since yesterday evening Winodws 8 RTM is out for developers. This blogpost is the start of a blog-series about developing Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. The series consists of some informational and some “how-to” posts: XAML in Windows Store-apps...

Before we start with a series of blogposts about developing Windows 8 Metro-Apps with XAML and C#, we  take a look at Windows 8 and its missing startmenu . Windows 8 which will be in RTM-state in the first week of august. I’ve read many articles...

Today Microsoft provided first details about the availability of Windows 8. Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller confirmed that Windows 8 is on track to Release to Manufacturing (RTM). Enterprise customers will already...

It has been really quiet for a long long time on this blog. I’ve had many amazing projects in the past half year. All about Windows Presentation Foundation. In my sparetime I focused on the HTML5-part, because I’m very interested in the development...

Yesterday morning Microsoft launched Windows 8 at the BUILD-conference in Anaheim. Windows 8 has a completely new tile- and touch-based UI with the Metro-Style we already know from Windows Phone 7. For us as Developers the big question was how to develop...

Thanks for joining my session at the .NET Developer Conference (DevCon) in Nürnberg today. As promised you find the slides of my session herer on my blog. Just click the download-link below. download slides Thomas

Thanks to all who attended in my session at TechDays 2011 in Basel. My Live-Demo is available via the link below. TechDays Basel - LiveDemo - Download here The .zip-File contains a .bak-File that you can restore via SQL Server Management Studio by chosing...

Yes, it felt like a very long time since the Firestarter-Event in December last year till now. As promised the Silverlight 5 Beta is available in the first half of 2011, and that’s now. Find the Links to the products below. Be sure to install SP1 of VS2011...

Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund. Vielen Dank für den Besuch meiner Session diesen Morgen um 8:30. Wie versprochen stehen die Slides und die Live-Demo eine Stunde nach dem Session-Ende hier auf dem Blog zur Verfügung. Folgend die Links Slides Live-Demo Falls...

Danke an alle Teilnehmer meiner Session, die mir zu so später Stunde noch sehr aufmerksam und konzentriert folgen konnten. Ich hoffe, jeder konnte was mitnehmen. Folgend die Links zu den Slides und dem in der Live-Demo entwickelten Beispiel. Slides Demos...

Today Microsoft announced in a press release that they’re planning a “broad strategic partnership” with Nokia to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as it’s principal smartphone strategy. That’s an important and huge...

Die “Beyondtellerrand Mobile”-Konferenz (www.beyondtellerrand.de) fand diesen Montag in Köln statt. Nachdem ich Sonntag Abend um halb elf im Hotel ankam entdeckte ich nach dem Zähneputzen eine Stofftasche auf meinem Zimmertisch. Welch Überraschung! Darin...

I switched from iPhone 3GS to a Samsung Omnia 7 with Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 has  a really great user experience, especially with a great display like my Samsung Omnia 7 has. I even like the user experience of Windows Phone 7 much more than...

September last year I gave a talk at the BASTA-conference in Mainz about Silverlight 4 and WPF in .NET 4.0. I also gave an interview about Silverlight. You can watch it here: http://it-republik.de/dotnet/news/Einem-WPF-und-Silverlight-Experten-auf-den...

An der GUI & Design-Konferenz in Nürnberg durfte ich heute zwei Vorträge zu den Themen “Controls in WPF/Silverlight designen und entwickeln” und “Hardwarenahe Programmierung in WPF/Silverlight mit Pixelshadern” halten. Bei Ihnen als Teilnehmer möchte...

The Silverlight Firestarter-Event The Keynote of the Silverlight Firestarter Event has just ended. It started with a great business-application built by SAP, before Scott Guthrie mentioned Silverlight 5 the first time. Scott said Microsoft has implemented...