Crash reports help you certify your Windows Store app

Good improvment: when certification process stop for crash reason, Microsoft provides .dmp/.txt report file.

Crash reports help you certify your Windows Store app – Windows 8 app developer blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Unlocking Windows 8 “God Mode” – A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense – Scott Hanselman

Control Panel in better:

Unlocking Windows 8 “God Mode” – A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense – Scott Hanselman.

The secret is: create a folder named “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” and enjoy.

And the question is: Why not provides this as a standard feature?

Learning Javascript with Object Graphs

Awesome explanation of javascript internals:

• Learning Javascript with Object Graphs,
• Learning Javascript with Object Graphs (Part II),
• Learning Javascript with Object Graphs (Part III).

A very smart replacement of Binding with a simplified syntax

Too simple to be ignored: Simply Good Code: Simpler WPF Binding.

Beautiful.

How to use Multi-Core JIT optimization from .NET 4.0 if .NET 4.5 is installed

.Net 4.5 introduces new JIT optimizations to shorten .Net application load time but this mechanism is also usable from and for a .Net 4.0 application (obviously only if .Net 4.5 is available). Paint.Net blog provides us a ready to reuse code to do so:

Using Multi-Core JIT from .NET 4.0 if .NET 4.5 is installed « Paint.NET Blog.

Setting the Cursor to Render Some Text While Dragging in WPF

How to draw text into a bitmap and transform it to an icon usable to drag’n drop (here). Should be usable for any drawing with a bit more code.