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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 display a message in Windows Store Apps?

How to display a message box in windows 8 apps using c# like calling MessageBox.Show() in windows phone 7?
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Get OS-Version in WinRT Metro App C#

I'm programming a Metro Style App with C# and the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Now I want to get the OS-Version of the OS. How can I get this? I found out how to do it in "normal" Applications. There you take the Environment-Class with the attribute…
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ADB not responding. You can wait more, or kill "adb.exe" ... windows 8

When I try to test my Android application with an android emulator as always I now suddenly get an error message. I'm working with Windows 8. So far I tried the following things which unfortunately could not solve the problem: reinstalling eclipse…
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Detecting Custom Protocol Handler in Windows 8+ with Chrome

I am trying to detect if my application to handle a custom protocol is installed and working using the different browsers. I have looked at other questions on this site such as: How to detect browser's protocol handlers?, and have looked at…
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Touch Scrolling ScrollViewer in WPF App with RealTimeStylus Disabled

We are working on a WPF 4.5 application that will be run on Windows 8 computers with touchscreen monitors. We have disabled support for the RealTimeStylus following the directions on the MSDN, since we have some views that need multitouch support…
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How does WinRT handle BitmapImage and Image memory

I am new to programming Windows Store Apps with C# and I am trying to understand how image memory is handled. My app is very simple: 1) it references a bitmap from a file using a Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage object and then uses that as…
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A method was called at an unexpected time

I'm trying to iterate all files in a directory using GetFilesAsync, but every time I call the GetResults method, it throws an exception that says System.InvalidOperationException: A method was called at an unexpected time The code is simply var…
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What is the user agent string for surface rt?

I'm trying to determine the user agent string for surface RT for testing purposes.
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How can I use the Windows.UI namespace from a regular (Non-Store) Win32 .NET application?

The question is basically related to Possible to use Toast Notifications from a regular .Net application? How can I use the Windows.UI namespace from a regular (Non-Store) Win32 .NET application (Console, WinForms, WPF)?
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Async and Await with HttpWebRequest.GetResponseAsync

I am trying to use Async and Await when making a web request and am finding that it never gets past the await line. I am doing this from a Metro app, but I also verified the problem in a winforms app. public async Task DoSomething() { …
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How to localize AppBar buttons

I have a Windows 8 Metro application created from the Grid Application template. I need to localize the buttons in the AppBar. Normaly I use x:Uid and .resw for localization but this does not work for the navigation buttons in AppBar. For example,…
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Windows 8 and LOB Apps

What is the recommended approach for building line of business apps for Windows 8? e.g. complex bespoke finance application They clearly don't fit into the Metro style so presumably will be a regular desktop app So is the recommendation to use WPF?…
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Is there any way to write a WinRt (Metro) app that will also work on Windows 7 and Vista?

We can’t just leave our customers that are not able to upgrade to windows 8 for a long time in the larch. However there is demand for a “tablet”/”touch” version of our app. So how can we support both touch with Metro on Windows 8 and our current…
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Windows 8, C++ and Metro GUI samples?

So I look at this (Windows build keynote 1:42:56) And I just do not get it - what I can use to create GUI from C++ and/or GUI language that will be capable to call functions from my C++ code? HTML, XAML or what? And where to see code sample of doing…
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What is Create User and Create Role in Postgresql?

Please explain what is the meaning of Create User and Create Role in PostgreSQL i am new at PostgreSQL. I try to learn bye myself i understand Create User mean that user who are able to access database cluster and mange it in with in same computer…
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