The App Builder Blog

The quest for a good application theme never ends.  You spend hours scouring the realms of Google and Bing looking for a clean, modern, and touch friendly theme to use in your application.  That is, until now! 

If you are a user of Microsoft Outlook, you may have noticed that you can navigate to the different outlook groups using simple keyboard shortcuts.  In this blog post, we will explain how to easily add Keyboard Shortcut Support to the WPF XamOutlookBar. Read more.

JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages on the web. At first, developers didn’t take it seriously, simply because it was not intended for server side programming.

If you aren’t using any form of source control in your project then stop right now and fix this. To get up and running with Git takes a whole 10 minutes to set up, and you will have your source code up in the cloud, should your computer blow up in the future (or you absent mindedly delete an important file).

In every UX Design project, the most important part is the requirements gathering process. This is an overview of some of the possible methods of requirements gathering.

Through a very simple (and logical I think) setup of columns and layouts, this feature allows for visual and sometimes functional grouping of column headers under a common parent.

There has been quite a bit of interest in dark themes recently. This is because more users are finding the white background of applications straining their eyes, especially when they are spending a lot of time in front of the computer screen.

Have you ever needed to create bindings to elements without knowing, or having access to, their DependencyProperty until runtime?

When creating your “Windows Modern Style UI applications” (read: Metro), one difficult aspect of the creation can be finding great icons to help keep a consistent look.