14 Dec, 2012
ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES Windows Store apps
By default, the following simple piece of standard C++ code will not work in Windows Store apps.
wofstream out(L"c:\\temp\\Data.txt");
out << L"Foo" << endl;
The reason is that Windows Store apps run with low privileges, meaning that there are restrictions on which files and folders you are allowed to access.
This is a problem for debugging, because often you want to quickly dump some data to a file and inspect the result.
Luckily, there is a way to make the above code work. The only thing you have to do is to grant “ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES” read/write access to the folder you want. 🙂
27 Oct, 2012
App-a-thon Windows 8 Windows Store apps
On 28th of September a colleague of mine (Francisco Almeida) and myself participated in a Windows 8 App-a-thon organized by Microsoft. I was pleasantly surprised when I received an email a couple of days ago informing us that we won the first prize in the contest 🙂 The winners have been announced on the Belux MSDN blog. Winning this contest is an extra encouragement to finish the little puzzle game we started and to put it on the App store. If everything goes well, the plan is to have an internal Beta version next week, and to submit the puzzle game for App store certification towards the end of next week or the week after. We have created a temporary landing page for our game which you can find here.
2 Oct, 2012
Metro Windows 8 Windows Store apps
A while ago, Microsoft decided to abandon the name Metro. It has been replaced with the following naming scheme:
Metro apps = Windows Store apps
Metro design language / Modern UI design language = Microsoft design style language
Metro style principles / Modern UI style principles = Microsoft design style principles
Note that the casing is also important. For example, the apps in Windows Store apps is with a lowercase a, not an uppercase.
