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The successor to Microsoft Windows 7 that focuses on a new interface style for touch-based devices and tablets.

Windows 8 is the successor to Microsoft Windows 7. Windows 8 is another addition to the Windows NT family.

The "Windows 8 User Interface," formerly named Metro, has been designed to make it better suitable for touchscreen input in addition to the traditional mouse and keyboard input. The new design focuses on tablet and mobile integration. Applications targeting the new UI () can be hosted in Windows Store () and submitted via the IDE. These must be developed using and either , + or (DirectX can be mixed with XAML).

Windows RT (not to be confused with WinRT or Windows Runtime) is a version of Windows 8 exclusively for microprocessors that only supports the new user interface developed with , while Windows 8 for the microprocessors from Intel and AMD also supports traditional desktop user interface developed with technologies such as , or .

A full description of Windows 8 can be found on Wikipedia.

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ClickOnce applications and Windows 8 certification

Is it possible to have a ClickOnce, WPF application certified as compatible with Windows 8? Note that I’m not referring to getting the application certified for the Windows Store. I just would like to have it certified as a compatible Windows 8…
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windows 8 store app - dependency issue - certification failed

We just submitted app in windows 8 store (metro style app) and got the error: XXX takes a dependency on Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Package framework but is missing the framework dependency declaration in the manifest. We had our app working fine…
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Will using dblinq to SQLite in a Windows Store app pass store validation?

I've been trying to figure out how to get a decent LINQ to something working for ORM database access in a Windows Store app. All I've found is SQLite and the sqlite-net NuGet package. The latter sucks a bit, as I don't get any .dbml like structure…
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Printing ListView items fetched from a JSON datasource in a Windows 8 (HTML + JS) app

I have a Windows 8 app built using HTML & JavaScript. It has a ListView showing a dynamic list of places generated from a JSON data source. I'm using Print Contract code from a MSDN sample (that shows how to print a page with static content) to…
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How do you apply shadows to controls in xaml for Windows 8(RT)

I see that most of the WPF stuff use for example DropShadowEffect, but my xaml in WinRT doesn't recognize that, is there something else to use?
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PreloadJS is undefined(Windows 8 game programming)

I am new to metro style programming so I am following a tutorial here http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-a-simple-windows-8-game-with-javascript-game-basics-createjseaseljs/ for games using createJS. Here the code
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Strange scrollbar behaviour

In my app I have a very strange scrollbar behaviour: The bottom scrollbar changes its size randomly while scrolling. I use a GridView with a lot of items in there (shoretened code): …
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How to detect keypresses on a BasicPage in c# win8 Metro

I want to catch the keypresses regardless of the focus on any control. what event to fire and where. I've tried to override OnKeyDown and OnKeyUp but that doesnt seem to work
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Trying to inline a HyperLinkButton in a TextBlock

I'm adding Inlines to a TextBlock. The Run() inlines work. Of course the Hyperlink() is deprecated in Windows 8 (using Windows.UI.Xaml.Documents) for some reason, so I'm trying to encapsulate a HyperlinkButton in an InlineUIContainer using C#. I…
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Adding Visual States to a Data Template in Windows 8

I am trying to add a Mouse Over effect to my Windows 8 application. Specifically I'm trying to add it to DataTemplates bound to a GridView. However, Currently, nothing is happening, I've tried to follow the Microsoft tutorials but most of those are…
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Process of debugging XAML Parsing errors for Windows 8

I'm looking for a general practice/approach of debugging XAML errors. Normally C# errors are fairly easy to look up and specific enough to find information on. However, XAML appears to just throw a generic XAML Parsing failed error: I'm looking…
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Clearing ISupportIncrementalLoading

I have created a search page in a Windows 8 Style App. I have implemented ISupportIncrementalLoading and when the user scrolls the paging works great. The problem that I'm having is when a user does a second search. I apparently don't know how to…
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Windows::Storage::ApplicationData::Current Not Found in C++

My C++ code, which is part of Media Foundation Transform tend to able to run in Windows Store App (Metro) I modify the C++ GrayscaleTransform to include the following code. However, my C++ code fails to locate namespace Windows::Storage. LPCWSTR…
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How to get the mac address in WinRT (Windows 8) programmatically?

I am looking for an API in WinRT to access the mac address.
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Binding to a UserControl "Failed to assign to property" error (Windows 8)

I am making a Windows 8 app in VS2012 and trying to bind a list of objects (cards) to a user control that will display two strings. Here is my code for the user control on one page: …
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