Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID - Building Windows 8 With Windows 8, we introduce the optional capability to sign in to your PC with a Windows Live ID and, by doing so, gaining the ability to roam a broad range of settings across all of your PCs. In this article by Katie Frigon, the group program manager of the You-Centered Experience team, she describes the feature and its benefits. --Steven Each Windows user wants to have the ability to set up and use a PC in a way that is unique to them. Doing so, however, can be challenging in today’s multiple user and multiple PC environment. Shared PC usage occurs in 72% of desktops and 49% of laptops How user accounts are used on shared computers PCs per household in the United States Benefits of signing in to Windows 8 with Windows Live ID Download this video to view it in your favorite media player: High quality MP4 | Lower quality MP4 Signing in with an ID allows you to: Associate the most commonly used Windows settings with your user account. User controls Privacy and security Katie Frigon
Getting Started Guide for Windows Phone Development - Microsoft Student We get a lot of questions on Facebook & Twitter from our student followers asking us about Windows Phone app development and how to get started. We’ve put together a Getting Started Guide which includes links & information to help you on your way to developing your first app. Check out the basic steps below and download the full Getting Started Guide for helpful tips, tricks and links. Step 1: Download Your Free Dev Tools. The Windows Phone developer tools for free. In addition, students can get even more developer and designer tools at no charge through Microsoft DreamSpark. Step 2: Build and Test Your App. From QuickStarts to Starter Kits – the Getting Started Guide offers links to great tutorials to help you get started building your first app. Step 3: Publish Your App. After you’ve built your app, you can publish it to the Windows Phone marketplace. Are you developing a Windows Phone app?
Best practices when adding single sign-on to your app with the Live SDK - Windows 8 app developer blog A few months ago I wrote about how to bring single sign-on and SkyDrive to your Windows 8 apps with the Live SDK. Since then we made the Windows 8 Release Preview publicly available and we’ve begun to see some inconsistency in the design patterns forming in how apps expose entry points for users to sign in, connect accounts or sign-out of their experience. To help you with these design patterns, we put together some guidelines for apps that want to use a user’s Microsoft account. There are three primary scenarios where your app might need to integrate authentication with Microsoft accounts: Your app requires the user to be signed in to work. Now let’s dive into the details of each of these. Guidelines for apps that require a user to sign in If your app uses a Microsoft account as its identity provider and it doesn’t work until after the user signs in, show the Microsoft account sign-in dialog immediately after the app starts. Sign-in dialog. Permission dialog. JavaScript Some rules of thumb
Globalizing and Localizing a Windows Phone App With Marketplace recently launching in 13 new markets, it's more important than ever to have a globalized, localized app that can reach as many of your customers as possible – but doing so can seem daunting. This blog post seeks to demystify the process and help enable you to write a truly global app. What is a globalized app? A globalized app displays things like dates and money in a way that's familiar to a user. If you have a calculator app, some people will expect to see a dollar sign, and others will expect a euro. This blog post will mostly focus on localizing your app – a meaty topic that can be tricky to understand. What is a localized app? You can think of a localized app as one that's been translated into one or more languages. App Text - menu headings, help text, etc. Do I have to localize my app to publish in multiple markets? No – the two actions are separate. It's important to understand that this is the only way you can choose where your app is published. App Title App Text a.
The Windows Store is open | Microsoft We make it easy to get started. All you need to build compelling apps for phones, tablets and PCs is in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows (with Update 2 RC). Included are universal app templates, a full-featured code editor, a powerful debugger, emulators, rich language support, and more, all ready to use in production. We have dozens of code samples to get you up and running fast. They’re based on Visual Studio’s new universal app templates, letting you build for both Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1. We’ll help you get your Windows Store app ready for a successful launch through one of our worldwide community events or by connecting you with a Windows platform expert.