Windows 8 app developer blog

Insights on building Windows Store apps by the Windows 8 engineering team

Being productive in the background – background tasks

In my previous post (Being productive in the background), I explained the Windows 8 background model...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 05/24/2012

Getting the most out of your pixels - adapting to view state changes

In Windows 8, your apps run on a variety of screen sizes and under various view states. A user might...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 04/19/2012

Creating a great tile experience (part 2)

In part 1 of this post, we learned how to design tile updates and choose the templates to match the...

Author: Windows 8 Team Date: 04/18/2012

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