Tiago Duarte

Problem: Accidental removal of the DOM Explorer tab causes the tab not to appear again until re-enabled Solution: Re-activate it in Debug > Windows > DOM Explorer (Ctrl+Alt+V, D) Note: The tab can only be re-enabled while in debug mode

It seems that for us with screen resolutions as high as 1280x800 won't be able to use the snap (left and right) feature, which allows showing two Metro apps, side-by-side, simultaneously. According to this about.com post , "if you plan to use the snap feature you will need a minimum resolution of 1366x768". Now, there are in fact a few tweaks found over the Internet that seem to successfully bring up a new, higher resolution, even when it wasn't supported in the first place. These tweaks, such as the application tweaks (PowerStrip, Infinite Screen) or registry tweaks ( Override X/Y Scales , Edit DownScalingSupported value , Windows 8 Snap Enabler ) didn't work for me. Either because I'm using Windows 2008 Server 64 bits, or a Nvidia GeForce 8400M GT, I had to try a different approach, and eventually I found that installing the updated drivers with enhanced inf from LaptopVideo2Go finally managed to get me some drivers and the NVIDIA Control Panel. ...

The Metro Apps documentation uses a C# as an example. Just so we all know, we can compile a deliverable of our Metro Style JavaScript application by right-licking the *project* and picking "Store", "Create an App Package". We can now configure a few settings for the application, as the version number. Remember to set the solution to deploy as "Release" instead of "Debug" so the final files don't have "_debug" names. Also, make sure you customized the "PackageName" field on the manifest, under the "Packaging" tab, or the id will be used later by validation tools, and it would be harder to figure out which is our app. There will be typically four files: - Batchfile with PowerShell install script - Actual .appx solution - .cer certificate base on the compiled machine name - There will also be a .appxupload file we can later submit over to the app store . The "Add-AppxDevPackage.bat" scrip...