It’s been a little while now since Microsoft implied that they might be interested in entering into the eReader market with Windows 8. Apparently this was more than just a passing comment, given their recent acquisition. Microsoft is now the owner of 17.6% of the Barnes & Noble subsidiary created to handle the Nook line. [...]
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With the anticipated release of Windows 8 just months away at this point, it is about the right time to be getting some more substantial information about the launch plans. Microsoft doesn’t disappoint, even if what we’re given is somewhat less than impressive. The big talk lately has been about the fact that MS announced [...]
Disabling text selection It is nice that you can build Windows 8 Metro style apps in HTML5/CSS3/JS but it has drawbacks. One of them being the fact that these apps do act as web-pages in all aspects, including text selection and context menus. Having user accidentally select some text or image in your app can [...]
I’ve been working on some existing code yesterday and bumped into a pretty ridiculous problem – how to convert WinRT Platform::String to lowercase or uppercase… In winuser.h following functions are marked as #if WINAPI_FAMILY_PARTITION(WINAPI_PARTITION_DESKTOP) CharUpperA CharUpperW CharLowerA CharLowerW and many more. It is fine with me – but what are replacements for them? In Platform::String I don’t see [...]
