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. When you’re ready, submit your completed app in our contest for a chance at one of hundreds of prizes. 10 things you should know about designing for Windows 8. 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. In this post I share those guidelines with you and show you some code for how to get started.
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 the user isn’t signed into their PC with a Microsoft account, the app displays a standard sign-in dialog. Sign-in dialog. Permission dialog. JavaScript. 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.
We know that shared PC usage is common and we’ve heard from many of you that switching between multiple accounts can be cumbersome. The difficulties associated with managing multiple accounts often lead to the sharing of a single account on a PC, and a less personal (and potentially less private) experience for each user. We also know that users are utilizing multiple devices more often now, and setting up a new PC can be inconvenient and time consuming. Microsoft gives Windows 8 developers a head start on Windows Store app submissions. Metro style app development.