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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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How to parse JSON without JSON.NET library?

I'm trying to build a Metro application for Windows 8 on Visual Studio 2011. and while I'm trying to do that, I'm having some issues on how to parse JSON without JSON.NET library (It doesn't support the metro applications yet). Anyway, I want to…
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gem install json -v 1.7.3 gives 'Please update your PATH to include build tools'

When I run: rails new blog I get: Installing json (1.7.3) Gem::InstallError: The 'json' native gem requires installed build tools. Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads'…
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Internet Explorer 10 Windows 8 Remove Text Input and Password Action Icons

I am testing a highly-customized web application in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, since it is an up and coming release, and will likely be using my application some day. Take a look at this sample screenshot of some text input controls from the…
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Run code on UI thread in WinRT

How can I run code on the UI thread in WinRT (Windows 8 Metro)? The Invoke method does not exist.
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How to uninstall an app that another user installed?

I keep hitting this problem when I try to debug my Windows 8 apps and there is a copy already installed on another user account: DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. Another user has already installed a packaged version of this app. An…
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Is there a list of "standard" Tile colors for Metro style Windows 8 apps?

When I look at the start screen of my Windows 8 installation I see that bundled apps have colors from some standard(?) palette: IE and Weather have the same color, Store and Xbox Live Games, People and Music, Messaging and Maps, etc. It doesn't look…
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ZipArchive creates invalid ZIP file

I am trying to create a new ZIP package from code with one entry and save the ZIP package to a file. I am trying to achive this with the System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive class. I am creating the ZIP package with the following code: using…
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How do I create a shortcut via command-line in Windows?

I want my .bat script (test.bat) to create a shortcut to itself so that I can copy it to my windows 8 Startup folder. I have written this line of code to copy the file but I haven't yet found a way to create the said shortcut, as you can see it…
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"Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server" error

I receive this error when trying to launch IIS Express from Visual Studio with a project that's configured to listen to an address other than localhost. Visual Studio freezes for about 30 seconds before giving the error "Unable to launch the IIS…
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Progress bar with HttpClient

i have a file downloader function: HttpClientHandler aHandler = new HttpClientHandler(); aHandler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Automatic; HttpClient aClient = new HttpClient(aHandler); …
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How are live tiles made in Windows 8?

I've searched the samples, the developer site, the getting started and the enhancing bla bla bla pages. Even using some search queries on Google, I can't seem any information on live tiles in Windows 8. How do I create a live tile in Windows 8? What…
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Is there a way to convert a System.IO.Stream to a Windows.Storage.Streams.IRandomAccessStream?

In Windows 8; I would like to pass the contents of a MemoryStream to a class that accepts a parameter of type Windows.Storage.Streams.IRandomAccessStream. Is there any way to convert this MemoryStream to an IRandomAccessStream?
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IIS ApplicationPoolIdentity does not have write permission to 'Temporary ASP.NET Files'

I am attempting to launch a website from an 'AppPool' called 'SomeAppPool' which uses the 'ApplicationPoolIdentity' and when I do I receive the following error when I launch the website: The current identity (IIS_APPPOOL\SomeAppPool) does not have…
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How to check if file exists in a Windows Store App?

Is there any other way of checking whether a file exists in a Windows Store app? try { var file = await ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.GetFileAsync("Test.xml"); //no exception means file exists } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) { …
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How to Distribute Compiled Windows 8 Metro Applications without Windows Store?

I am just curious if there is a way to package up a Windows 8 Metro application to distribute it to others with the Windows 8 Developer Preview installed? It would be nice to be able to allow someone to just download and install, rather than…
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