Yesterday Glenn (twitter) and I presented a session on “Building the Windows 8 Community App” at Community Day 2012 as members of the Belgian Windows Phone User Group.
During the session we gave a preview of the (soon to be official) Belgian Community App, together with several technical items and some best practices. Since we’re still finetuning some parts of the app, we’ll be putting a series of blog posts online with code samples and more detailed explanations. You can find the slides of the presentation on slideshare. Some of the topics we touched and on which we’ll blog are:
- Consuming JSON data in WinRT
- Lazy loading your data with MVVM
- Using Bing Maps with MVVM in Windows 8
- Image manipulation in Windows 8 metro app
- Flyout control in XAML for Windows 8
- Share contract through MVVM in Windows 8
- XAML binding resources from a separate assembly