Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-19 Thread Stephen Price
Does that mean I'm going to get it all over me, and make a mess? Thanks for the link, some cool resources there. I'm a little hesitant to accept that the site is targeted at me though. Probably the developer in me screaming. The designer in me seems ok with it. (the internal conflict continues)

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-18 Thread John Li
On switching apps: Good-old Alt-Tab works for me? Or Ctrl-Alt-Tab to keep it open and pick? John From: ton...@tpg.com.au To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:41:15 +1000 I have to agree

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
Is there any design guidelines for the new Metro styled apps yet? I'm designing an app at the moment that's loosely following the Zune app in style, but I also want it to fit in with the Windows 8 Metro apps as well so that when its released it fits in nicely. Seems to be lots of block colours

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-18 Thread Scott Barnes
http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/tutorials/windows-phone-7/metro/ Its all very be the melting ice cream in terms of knowledge / principles. I am giving a talk in Sweden Oredev conference on this subject so as i get closer to finalizing my talk, i'll def upload and provide some more hands

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Scott Barnes
] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** Man it totally sucks. ** ** I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of windows is 32bit, so it wont run the Windows

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Tony Wright
ready. T. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Saturday, 17 September 2011 5:54 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 For those wanting to play with it inside a virtual machine, i'd recommend you

Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread David Burela
I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion around this on the mailing list yet. I've got some notes about the day 1 day 2 keynotes http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/build-keynote-day-1metro-experience-with-jupiter-xaml-and-html5js/

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread William Luu
Thanks David. That's one of the better summaries I've read thus far. On 16 September 2011 01:12, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion around this on the mailing list yet. I've got some notes about the day 1 day 2 keynotes

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen Price
I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an endless boot loop telling me there was a problem. Maybe it was because I installed it in a pub? Backed up hard drive and formatted it, installing from scratch. Went much better second time. It makes my slate so much nicer

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread David Kean
BUILD / Windows 8 I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an endless boot loop telling me there was a problem. Maybe it was because I installed it in a pub? Backed up hard drive and formatted it, installing from scratch. Went much better second time. It makes

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Winston Pang
] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:23 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an endless boot loop telling me there was a problem. Maybe it was because I

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:23 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an endless boot loop telling me

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Winston Pang
** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** Man it totally sucks. ** ** I wanted

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Grant Maw
if the host OS is 32bit ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** Man

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Matt Siebert
...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** Man it totally sucks. ** ** I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of windows is 32bit, so it wont run

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Winston Pang
: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** Man it totally sucks. ** ** I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of windows is 32bit, so

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Matt Siebert Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 12:25 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 I tried the x64 edition on VMware Workstation 7 yesterday but got about 30 seconds in and it had some catastrophic failure. I googled and it seems that your