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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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Creating Windows Metro style apps with Java?

I know how to create small desktop applications in Java. I want to know, can I make Windows Metro style apps in Java? Because on the web only C++/C/C#/JavaScript etc. are mentioned. If yes can you please give me some reference for a quick start. If…
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Are Click, Tapped, and PointerPressed synonymous in WinRT-XAML?

Does it matter whether I create event handlers for PointerPressed, Click, or Tapped?IOW, is there any functional difference between the following:
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Parsing data for Android L failed.Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

After installing ADT Plugin for Eclipse, I tried to make a new Hello world Android app. But I met with the following error when I tried to open a new Android Application. I'm working with JDK 7.0 and JRE 7.0. I initially worked with JDK 6.0, but met…
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Why are FileSystemWatcher Attribute changes detected on Windows 7 but not Windows 8?

I have some code that uses FileSystemWatcher to monitor file changes outside of my application. On Windows 7, using .NET 4, the below code would detect when a file had been edited and saved in an application like Notepad, while my app was running.…
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What is an equivalent method to `GetCustomAttributes` for .NETCore (Windows 8 Framework)?

I'm putting together an app that interfaces with Stack API and have been following this tutorial (although old API version it still works). My problem is that when using this within the Windows 8 Store App I'm contrained by the .NETCore Framework…
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Do Windows 8 Store Apps (Metro) run in Windows 7 or XP?

I want to know whether Metro Applications developed using Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and .Net FrameWork 4.5 can run in Windows 7 or XP. Not the normal Windows Form or WPF, I want to know about the all new Metro Apps. What new things needed…
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What does the fr unit in a CSS Windows 8 metro style application mean?

Looking at the following CSS in a Windows 8 metro style application, what is "fr"? -ms-grid-columns: 638px 1fr;
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Why cannot I chmod in Cygwin on Windows 8 CP?

I can't chmod group permission in Cygwin on Windows 8 so that I can't ssh connect to a server using an ssh key. Bash prompt warning: "Permissions 0660 for '/home/KeepZero/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open. It is required that your private key files are NOT…
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How to deploy a Metro App to the Desktop?

I am trying to deploy my C# app to my Windows 8 Metro desktop. I can see the deployed files in the bin folder but when i try to open them i get the following error: This application can only run in the context of an AppContainer. I checked the…
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What happened to regtlibv12?

I have a clean install of Windows 8 on a partition, with Visual Studio 11/2012 Professional installed and I cannot find regtlibv12.exe inside C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319. Below is a screenshot of my Windows 7 partition, with .Net…
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HttpClient Request like browser

When I calling site www.livescore.com by HttpClient class I always getting error "500". Probably server blocked request from HttpClients. 1)There is any other method to get html from webpage? 2)How I can set the headers to get html content? When I…
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How to disable the “Expect: 100 continue” header in WinRT's HttpWebRequest

I'm developing an app that for legacy code reasons I can't upgrade for the new HttpClient so I'm using HttpWebRequests. In .NET 4 we could deactivate the Expect header (on posts requests) using ServicePoint.Expect100Continue property, but on WinRT…
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Berkeley Socket facade for WinRT Networking plausibility?

This is a copy of a post I've sent to the ZeroMQ mailing list. However, the question is raises it not specific to ZeroMQ, but more generally regarding the need for a 'mapping' layer over the networking functionality provided in WinRT to provide a…
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How to get the resolution of screen? For a WinRT app?

I want to know the screen resolution so that I can set the height of an element according to the resolution in a Windows 8 app.
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How to install the XNA Game Studio 4.0 in Windows 8?

This question is related, but NOT a duplicate: How to install XNA game studio on Visual Studio 2012? I read the above mentioned post, and have got xna projects opening, but I now have a problem. Some of the references to the XNA framework aren't…
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