I managed to solve my problem, I made the image larger than the container it was placed in and vertical aligned it in the center. <Grid HorizontalAlignment=”Left” Width=”250″ Height=”125″> <Image Source=”/url/to/image.jpg” Stretch=”UniformToFill” Height=”250″ Margin=”0″ VerticalAlignment=”Center”/> </Grid> The overflow of the image was invisible 🙂
You can use the Ignore attribute: public class someclass { public string property1 { get; set; } public string property2 { get; set; } [Ignore] public string property3 { get; set; } }
What new things needed to run Metro Apps in Windows XP or Windows 7 A virtual machine of Windows 8. Metro apps currently don’t run on Windows 7, and definitely don’t on Windows XP. According to this thread, it’s difficult but might happen eventually: Keep your eyes out on future Channel 9 videos and on … Read more
The UWP platform is only available for Windows 10 devices. We can’t port it back. If you want to use it on a Windows 7 device, you can make a WPF prject, which uses XAML, the same as UWP. WPF can run on Window 7. In particular, the XAML and C# code can be reused.
Click is there for backwards compatibility, and is essentially the same as Tapped. Tapped is a “high level gesture” that will translate automatically to a click, tap, pen press, etc. and is what I would recommend to use. PointerPressed is not what you want. Here’s why: if I press and hold, the PointerPressed event will … Read more
Windows.Web.Http is a WinRT API available in all the WinRT programming languages supported: C#, VB, C++/CX and JavaScript. This enables the option to write the same code in the language of your choice. System.Net.Http is a .NET API, and it is only available for C# and VB developers. Windows.Web.Http advantages WinRT APIs are written in … Read more
I got it. Setting the ListView.ItemContainerStyle with a HorizontalContentAlignment setter makes the trick. I.e.: <ListView x:Name=”questionsView” Background=”{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}”> <ListView.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <Border Background=”BlueViolet”> <Grid HorizontalAlignment=”Stretch” Margin=”0″> <TextBlock Text=”{Binding}” /> <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment=”Right”>16 minutes ago</TextBlock> </Grid> </Border> </DataTemplate> </ListView.ItemTemplate> <ListView.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType=”ListViewItem”> <Setter Property=”HorizontalContentAlignment” Value=”Stretch” /> </Style> </ListView.ItemContainerStyle> </ListView>
You only need to return an awaitable. Task/Task<TResult> is a common choice; Tasks can be created using Task.Run (to execute code on a background thread) or TaskCompletionSource<T> (to wrap an asynchronous event). Read the Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern for more information.
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
Here’s what you can do to retrieve the version in code: using Windows.ApplicationModel; public static string GetAppVersion() { Package package = Package.Current; PackageId packageId = package.Id; PackageVersion version = packageId.Version; return string.Format(“{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}”, version.Major, version.Minor, version.Build, version.Revision); } Reference: http://www.michielpost.nl/PostDetail_67.aspx