Making a Bitcoin calculator app for Windows 8

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It's alive!!!

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/sv-SE/app/bitcoin-calculator/f2bc71be-dd4a-4d82-ae98-32db5864a594

I'm making an Announce thread aswell...

You might want to find a way to link to it that to the US English site as well, right now a search on the store in the US does not show the app, but your direct link does work.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/apps

I'd love to do more, but browsing the store is the limit for me until I get a VM running Win8 or take the leap and switch. I've got a LOT of baggage and work stuff to consider, so it's not an easy matrix to solve.

The easy way to find the app in your language is to delete the sv-SE... and the site will redirect to the right language.

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/bitcoin-calculator/f2bc71be-dd4a-4d82-ae98-32db5864a594

much better

I don't have my grandmother around to translate the Swedish (or force me to eat Lutefisk), so I'll have to stick with English for now.

hehe... i hate Lutfisk =)
Btw, I'm thinking of putting the language file on www.transifex.com if it works with no hassle so that the community can help translate the app to other languages.

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Good thought, but my app don't poll unless you click/touch the Refresh button and has a check so that you won't poll more often than every 10s.
Maybe later I will make a live tile for the app that polls every hour or something (depending on user settings etc...).

Right now I'm experimenting on localization so that I can have different languages in the app depending on your settings in Windows 8.

Yeah, that should do it.

Are you planning to open source?

I'm still looking at open source... there are so many licenses to choose from:
http://opensource.org/licenses/index.html

The Bitcoin Client use http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT