SuiteValue.UI.Metro

SuiteValue.UI.Metro is a framework targeting WinRT XAML/C# Metro development, and it helps develop various tasks common for Metro apps.

What’s in the Box

1. Fully pluggable and open providers system for authentications. It wraps around WebAuthenticationBroker and offers common user info details from each service. Out of the box support for Google, Facebook, Twitter and LiveID.
2. Very simple and naive implementation of Time and Date pickers.
3. BaseViewModels which help navigation and async scenarios.

Using the framework

There are nuget packages you can consume that will help you get started. Also Samples are available A sample showing how to use Time/Date Pickers. A sample showing how to use the authentication feature.

More sample will be available in the future.

To compile the framework you must install Live SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/live/ff621310.aspx

Configuring your app to be used with Twitter

Follow instructions as specified in this link: https://dev.twitter.com/ You will need to provide the dynamic conifguration object with 2 keys: TwitterClientId - should be available after completing app registration. TwitterClientSecret- should be available after completing app registration. TwitterRedirectUrl - could be any url.

Configuring your app to be used with Google

Follow instructions as specified in this link: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2 You will need to provide the dynamic conifguration object with 2 keys: GoogleClientId- should be available after completing app registration. GoogleClientSecret - should be available after completing app registration. GoogleRedirectUrl - should be "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob" GoogleScope - optional, you can specify more scopes to request approval from user.

Configuring your app to be used with Facebook

Register your app with https://developers.facebook.com/apps You will need to provide the dynamic conifguration object with 2 keys: FacebookClientId - should be available after completing app registration. FacebookRedirectUrl - could be any url.

Configuring your app to be used with LiveSDK

Register you Metro app with https://manage.dev.live.com/build?wa=wsignin1.0

Contact

Contact me at twitter : @arielbh. I would love to hear your feedback on that.