Use the PowerShell cmdlet add-appxpackage. For example: add-appxpackage C:\myapp.appx See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uk_faculty_connection/archive/2012/04/03/installing-enterprise-metro-apps-without-using-microsoft-store.aspx for more info.
It’s indeed gone: List<T>.ForEach has been removed in Metro style apps. While the method seems simple it has a number of potential problems when the list gets mutated by the method passed to ForEach. Instead it is recommended that you simply use a foreach loop. Wes Haggard | .NET Framework Team (BCL) | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/ Very … Read more
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…
This ASP.NET forum answer, unacknowledged in its thread, was the solution for me. It’s also low-impact: it doesn’t try to re-register IIS or give the user dangerous privileges. To summarize the answer: Open a Command window as an administrator (Start / Programs / Accessories, then right-click over Command Prompt, then choose “Run as administrator”). Enter … Read more
According to the accepted answer in this post, there is no other way at the moment. However, the File IO team is considering changing the the api so that it returns null instead of throwing an exception. Quote from the linked post: Currently the only way to check if a file exists is to catch … Read more
Each machine that wants to install the application will need a developer license. See this page for some details. When you have your app ready: select Store->Create App Package Select Build a package to use locally only Follow the prompts This will create a package in whatever folder you specified. You should be able to … Read more
To use the extensions: you must add “using System.IO” In Windows8, .NET and WinRT types are generally converted to/from compatible types under the hood so you don’t have to care about it. For streams, however, there are helper methods to convert between WinRT and .NET streams: For converting from WinRT streams -> .NET streams: InMemoryRandomAccessStream … Read more
Finally figured it out, these live tiles are using tile notifications as noted by others. Here is the minimal code necessary for updating an existing default tile with a template: You have to load in a template and adjust it, or produce your own XML code. See the tile schema… var tileXml = Notifications.TileUpdateManager.getTemplateContent(template); You … Read more
From .Net 4.5 onwards: Use IProgress<T> Since .Net 4.5 you can handle asynchronous progress reporting with the IProgress<T> interface. You can write an extension method for downloading files using the HttpClient that can be called like this where progress is the implementation of IProgress<float> for your progress bar or other UI stuff: // Seting up … Read more
You could use a PowerShell command. Stick this in your batch script and it’ll create a shortcut to %~f0 in %userprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup: powershell “$s=(New-Object -COM WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut(‘%userprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\%~n0.lnk’);$s.TargetPath=”%~f0″;$s.Save()” If you prefer not to use PowerShell, you could use mklink to make a symbolic link. Syntax: mklink saveShortcutAs targetOfShortcut See mklink /? in a console window for … Read more