Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors the Simple StreamSocket example in msdn here http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/StreamSocket-Sample-8c573931 which is coded in c++ and javascript but no c#.…
Tag: consumer preview
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I decided to create a simple REST web service and make create/read/update/delete…
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outlined in this forum post http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/winappswithcsharp/thread/2d3496df-a145-4d87-be08-aadd5a8098e2 The steps are Create a MediaElement and set it’s AudioCategory…