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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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What are the pros and cons of writing C#/XAML vs. C++/XAML WinRT applications in Windows8?

I'd like to go down the route of porting a WPF/Silverlight component to Windows 8. For a bit of context, the component is a real-time WPF Chart, which uses a mixture of WPF/XAML and bitmap rendering to achieve high performance. I'd like the…
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WinRT and WPF in Windows 8

As I understand, WinRT is a different version of WPF written without using the underlying Win32 APIs. What's the relation of WinRT and WPF? Will WPF work under Metro in Windows 7 or will it launch the classic desktop? That's not so clear from the…
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How to open/run .jar file (double-click not working)?

I can't open or run my .jar file. I just installed java, but I tried to open the .jar with other programs first, so the double-click defaults to something else and I can't change it back. java -jar myfile.jar` Above command returns: 'java' is not…
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How to download/upload files from/to SharePoint 2013 using CSOM?

I am developing a Win8 (WinRT, C#, XAML) client application (CSOM) that needs to download/upload files from/to SharePoint 2013. How do I do the Download/Upload?
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windows 8 NT Kernel and System using port 80

This has long bugged me. after upgrading to Windows 8, i already cannot run my XAMPP server without using ports other than port 80, since a process called "NT Kernel & System" is using it. It's a system process so I cannot disable it. I don't have…
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Windows 8 - Fancy Progress Bars API?

Does anyone know if the new 'fancy' file transfer progress bar that Windows 8 uses for its file transfer progress is available via some API (preferably C#)? I could think of some useful places for it in our application but can't seem to find out if…
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How to use gitbash instead of windows cmd.exe with meteor Release 0.7.0.1-win2

I am getting started with Meteorjs. I'm a windows user so I downloaded the windows installer package Release 0.7.0.1-win2. I use gitbash for my command line interface and can't get it to recognize meteor. I get the error "sh.exe": meteor: command…
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Maximum number of lines for a Wrap TextBlock

I have a TextBlock with the following setting: TextWrapping="Wrap" Can I determine the maximum number of lines? for example consider the following string TextBlock.Text: This is a very good horse under the blackboard!! It currently has been shows…
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Metro App can no longer be programmatically killed?

I'm new to Win 8 Metro application development, and discovered that lots of things seem to be changed from the classic WPF. What troubles me the most is that there's no way to close the app. This is extremely annoying when it comes to debugging the…
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Creating a Sorted Collection View in WinRT

Has anyone had a go at creating a view that sorts a collection? The ICollectionView interface is present, and it claims to have the same responsibilities as its WPF / SL counterpart (sorting, paging, filtering), however, unless I have missed…
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Javac is not found

I'm running Windows 8 and I can not get javac to work. I have set my PATH in environmental variables to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_17\bin I have tried both with and without ';' but to no avail. I recently had this issue on my desktop…
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Windows 8 Image UniformFill centered

I have a little problem, I have a group item which I want to give a background image which it should scale keeping it's correct dimensions but by default it shows the image from the top left, I want the image to be centered. Here is an illustration…
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ExecJS::RuntimeError in Users#index (RoR)

Just ran a "generate scaffold Users ... " command. Then I go to localhost:3000/users/ and see this: ExecJS::RuntimeError in Users#index Showing C:/Users/TheOnlyUser/Desktop/NMS/nms2/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #6 raised: …
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The given System.Uri cannot be converted into a Windows.Foundation.Uri

I'm trying to programmatically load a BitmapImage in a XAML Metro app. Here's my code: var uri = new Uri("/Images/800x600/BackgroundTile.bmp", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute); var imageSource = new BitmapImage(uri); The second line crashes with a…
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C++, C# and JavaScript on WinRT

From image below, Windows 8 Platform and tools. I know this mean I can use C++, C# or JavaScript for Metro style App. I also watch some build's keynote and I have couple of questions here. Windows 8 Platform and Tools…
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