The digital home of Richard Garside
This is my digital home, a resting place for my personal and client projects. I'm a web developer based in Leeds. I specialise in .NET MVC and Flash ActionScript projects. You can find out more about me here.
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Creating a snap view with XAML in Windows 8 (WinRT)
If you create a new WinRT solution using the Grid or Split Application Template you'll get all the code you need to create a layout aware page that shows a different view when in snap view. If you start of your project using the blank project template, you need to do a little bit more work to get it working.
First you need to change the page to be a layout aware page. LayoutAwarePage is a class provided by the template and is in the Common folder.
In BlankPage.xaml.cs change:
public sealed partial class BlankPage : Page
to
public sealed partial class BlankPage : LayoutAwarePage
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Creating app bar buttons in WinRT
If you start a new blank Windows 8 App in Visual Studio you get loads of app bar button styles to choose from in StandardStyles.xaml including:
SkipBackAppBarButtonStyle
SkipAheadAppBarButtonStyle
PlayAppBarButtonStyle
PauseAppBarButtonStyle
EditAppBarButtonStyle
SaveAppBarButtonStyle
DeleteAppBarButtonStyle
DiscardAppBarButtonStyle
RemoveAppBarButtonStyle
AddAppBarButtonStyle
NoAppBarButtonStyle
YesAppBarButtonStyle
MoreAppBarButtonStyle
RedoAppBarButtonStyle
UndoAppBarButtonStyle
HomeAppBarButtonStyle
OutAppBarButtonStyle
NextAppBarButtonStyle
PreviousAppBarButtonStyle … more
Drawing TEDx Bradford
I went to TEDx Bradford on Friday. I kept visual notes of the talks using Paper for iPad. I got better at using Paper with practice so my notes start to look better in the later talks. I had to leave a little bit early, so I didn't get to make notes on all the talks.
Tim O’Reilly
Jane MacDonald, Tales of Things & Electronic Memory
Mark Graham, Internet & information geographies
Maureen Pennock, Archiving the Web
Dominic Smith, Open source, Art & Wizardlyness
Dr Kieran Fenby-Hulse, The Modern Mixtape
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