Uploaded December 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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By default, Visual Studio creates new projects with a title of 'My Application'.
This is usually acceptable for a hello world application, but we will want to change this to match the intent of our application, being a Blog Reader.
We could change this resource in many ways, but we are simply going to edit the Text property as a static resource.
In this video, I will show you how to edit a static resource, namely the Text property of a TextBlock representing our page title.
References
XAML Blog Reader -- msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211380.aspx
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By default, Visual Studio creates new projects with a title of 'My Application'.
This is usually acceptable for a hello world application, but we will want to change this to match the intent of our application, being a Blog Reader.
We could change this resource in many ways, but we are simply going to edit the Text property as a static resource.
In this video, I will show you how to edit a static resource, namely the Text property of a TextBlock representing our page title.
References
XAML Blog Reader -- msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211380.aspx
![Windows 8 Development - XAML DefaultViewModel Binding
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Next were going to hook up the UI for our main application page through the DefaultViewModel collection.
A page of type Items has a default View Model defined, and it is possible to hook up to a data source with only a few lines of code.
Once done, the page will render the items in the default template format. Of course,customization will likely take place from the default settings.
In this video, I will show you how to bind our data feeds to the DefaultViewModel[Items] element of our ItemsPage.
References
XAML Blog Reader - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211380.aspx Windows 8 Development - XAML DefaultViewModel Binding](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vjoYesVE3Xs/mqdefault.jpg)








![Working with paths and urls in Objective-C
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When working with files in Objective-C, we can specify the paths to them as follows:
NSString *path = @/Users/pavel/file.txt;
However, the recommended way (by Apple engineers) to specify that is by using URL-s (Uniform Resource Locator).
The iOS SDK class that provides us urls manipulation is named NSURL, and it has a lot of class convenience methods that make developers lives easier.
To create a NSURL object, we use the syntax:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@file:///Users/pavel/file.txt];
Note that the way we specify the string is different from in path cases.
It should always have the file schema in front of it, than a colon, and 3 slashes.
If we want to create a NSURL object, providing a string as in path cases, we can use a NSURL method which allows us to do that:
NSURL *newUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@/Users/pavel/Public/file.txt];
To move files from one location to another using urls instead of paths, we should use:
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] moveItemAtURL:url toURL:newUrl error:nil]; Working with paths and urls in Objective-C](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xix_7Nqa7qM/mqdefault.jpg)
