There’s actually an issue filed on Connect, which is currently reviewed by Microsoft. So brings in some room for the reasonable suspicion that this is a bug of Visual Studio 2015. There is also a workaround available: Posted by DaisyDave on 12/15/2015 at 2:40 AM Opening solutions from within the IDE stops these folders appearing.
Because there was no solution to this problem, I had to reimplement all paging relevant classes: Page, Frame, SuspensionManager, etc… The solution can be downloaded here: https://github.com/MyToolkit/MyToolkit/wiki/Paging-Overview Update: The page class now also provides the OnNavigatingFromAsync method to show for example an async popup and cancel navigation if required…
The phrase “Win32 desktop app” is a ill-defined since the Win32 API programming model has been around since Windows NT 3.1. It can also cover dozens of development languages and UI frameworks over the intervening two decades. Here’s a quick overview of the key UWP differences: API surface area. The UWP platform supports many but … Read more
The answer would be no. For further clarifications, best to post on the forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/home?forum=wpdevelop Windows 10 introduces several new APIs and concepts (such as API contracts) that are not available on Windows 8.1. An app that relies on such new APIs and concepts cannot run on Windows 8.1. Additionally the app-model and a lot … Read more
With the release of Windows Phone 8.1 SDK comes a new StatusBar. The StatusBar replaces the SystemTray from Windows Phone Silverlight Apps. Unlike the SystemTray, the StausBar can only be accessed via code and some functionality has changed. StatusBar statusBar = Windows.UI.ViewManagement.StatusBar.GetForCurrentView(); // Hide the status bar await statusBar.HideAsync(); //Show the status bar await statusBar.ShowAsync(); … Read more
I solved this problem by adding Newtonsoft.Json to the NuGet of the startup project (even though it is not directly used in the startup project).
Try removing the Grid.RowSpan=”2″ from the Rectangle (or add a RowDefinition), you have 4 rows (4 RowDefinition) but with the Rectangle having Grid.RowSpan=2 it adds up to 5 rows, so it might be causing you trouble. EDIT: My bad, Rectangle actually spans over rows 2 and 3 (Grid.Row=”2″), so it’s ok. Since you’re just stacking … Read more
Double click on the Package.appxmanifest file in your project. Click on the “Capabilities” tab. Add the Private Networks capability to your project.
For Universal Apps, the new APIs require you to use await MessageDialog().ShowAsync() (in Windows.UI.Popups) to bring it into line with Win 8.1. var dialog = new MessageDialog(“Your message here”); await dialog.ShowAsync();
The following is probably not complete, but some of the major differences are Old style {Binding } binds to the DataContext binds to a Property Name, flexible about the actual source type New style {x:Bind } binds to the Framework element (code-behind class) needs all types fixed at compile time defaults to the more frugal … Read more