RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread ILT (O)
Chrome installed eh! It truly is a global virus! -- GK Interesting that Microsoft’s “Spartan” browser may/will be minimalist and extensible – like Chrome (according to Mary Jo Foley http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-building-a-new-browser-as-part-of-its-windows-10-push/ and Neowin

Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread Greg Keogh
Thanks David, your link to this article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx posted about a month ago (good reading) clarifies where things are headed. I hadn't been following the news closely, so I was unclear about the big picture of where all the

RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread ILT (O)
Not really related to universal apps, but there is an interesting short article in InfoQ that quotes DevExpress specifically about “their take on the future of Silverlight. This is the teaser - DevExpress on the Future of WinForms and Silverlight You can tell a lot about the future of a UI

Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen Price
I have installed it to have a look (but not yet spent any time on it yet). I was surprised to see when it installed the external stuff (ie android sdk etc) it actually installed google chrome for me. Kind of a really? Wow! Moment. On 8 Jan 2015 2:43 pm, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Thanks

Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread Greg Keogh
I have installed it to have a look (but not yet spent any time on it yet). I was surprised to see when it installed the external stuff (ie android sdk etc) it actually installed google chrome for me. Kind of a really? Wow! Moment. I'm installing a Win8.1 VM as I type, to receive VS2015 for a