Thomas Huber

Interview about Windows 8

Thomas Huber — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:45:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Dragging Elements in Windows Store Apps

Thomas Huber — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:25:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Presentation Foundatoin 4.5 – WPF 4.5 – the 3rd edition is here

Thomas Huber — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:58:17 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft TechDays – WinRT-Controls Deep Dive: FlipView, ListView, GridView & SemanticZoom

Thomas Huber — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:29:30 GMT

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...(read more)

SwissBUILD – Kostenfreies Event mit Microsoft und Trivadis rund um Windows 8 & Co.

Thomas Huber — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:26:39 GMT

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...(read more)

BASTA! – Mobile, Mobile, Mobile

Thomas Huber — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:49:58 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Store is now open for all developers in 120 countries

Thomas Huber — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:40:21 GMT

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...(read more)

The naming issue: Metro Style-Apps, Windows 8 Style-Apps, Modern UI-Style Apps or Windows Store-Apps?

Thomas Huber — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:18:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Store-apps: WinRT XAML vs. Silverlight XAML

Thomas Huber — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:14:57 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Store-apps with XAML and C# – blog series

Thomas Huber — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:24:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows 8: The (not) missing startmenu

Thomas Huber — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:01:37 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows 8 goes RTM in August and is general available in October

Thomas Huber — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:48:53 GMT

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...(read more)

What’s coming next? XAML, WinRT, HTML5,…

Thomas Huber — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:01:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Build applications for Windows 8

Thomas Huber — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:00:14 GMT

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...(read more)

.NET DevCon Nürnberg – WPF, Silverlight and HTML5

status — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:04:01 GMT

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...(read more)