OK, with some critical input from Tim Heuer [MSFT], I figured out what was going on and how to get around this problem. Surprisingly, none of my three initial guesses were correct. This wasn’t about memory, threading, or system resources. Instead, it was about limitations in the Windows messaging system. Apparently it is a little … Read more
I recommend using System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode and NOT HttpUtility.HtmlDecode. This is due to the fact that the System.Web reference does not exist in Winforms/WPF/Console applications and you can get the exact same result using this class (which is already added as a reference in all those projects). Usage: string s = System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode(“é”); // Returns é
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.
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 .pfx is used at the temporary code certificate to sign your app for deployment to your machine so you can debug. You can remove it, but a new temporary key will need to be generated (via the Packaging tab in the package.appxmanifest dialog). I always leave it in the code I post since it … 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
The only version of the C runtime library which is shipped by Microsoft with most of 32 bit Windows versions is msvcrt.dll. This library provides a typical set of library functions required by C and C++ programs. These include string manipulation, memory allocation, C-style input/output calls, etc. Visual Studio 6.0’s compiler links against this library, … 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
var brush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, (byte)R, (byte)G, (byte)B)); myGrid.Background = brush;
WinRT is fundamentally COM, so using WinRT components from C is like using COM components from C. Like before, you get .idl files for all WinRT components, and also .h files produced from those .idl files. The .h files include both C++ and C declarations (wrapped in #ifdef __cplusplus as needed). You can just #include … Read more