I found that trying to use: JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<T>>() wouldn’t work for me. I found that this worked instead. JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<IEnumerable<T>>() Hope its a better late than never answer.
SimpleIoc crib sheet: You register all your interfaces and objects in the ViewModelLocator class ViewModelLocator { static ViewModelLocator() { ServiceLocator.SetLocatorProvider(() => SimpleIoc.Default); if (ViewModelBase.IsInDesignModeStatic) { SimpleIoc.Default.Register<IDataService, Design.DesignDataService>(); } else { SimpleIoc.Default.Register<IDataService, DataService>(); } SimpleIoc.Default.Register<MainViewModel>(); SimpleIoc.Default.Register<SecondViewModel>(); } public MainViewModel Main { get { return ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<MainViewModel>(); } } } Every object is a singleton by default. To … Read more
This solved my issue: Windows.ApplicationModel.Core.CoreApplication.MainView.CoreWindow.Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => { // Your UI update code goes here! } ); Correct way to get the CoreDispatcher in a Windows Store app
Use textContent instead of value to set the button text. Typically the value attribute is used to associate a value with the button when it’s submitted as form data. Note that while it’s possible to set the button text with innerHTML, using textContext should be preferred because it’s more performant and it can prevent cross-site … Read more
My process above still works, but it simply gets around a race condition issue, where Windows Update (yes, oddly enough) is in charge of wiping out “staged packages.” According to Microsoft, the “other fix” – and I still consider this issue to be a bug – is: Cause of the problem: Windows Update (WU) downloads … Read more
You must mark your lambda expression as async, like so: messageDialog.Commands.Add(new UICommand(“No”, async (command) => { await showSaveDialog(); }));
This is the preferred way: Windows.ApplicationModel.Core.CoreApplication.MainView.CoreWindow.Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => { // Your UI update code goes here! }); The advantage this has is that it gets the main CoreApplicationView and so is always available. More details here. There are two alternatives which you could use. First alternative Windows.ApplicationModel.Core.CoreApplication.GetCurrentView().CoreWindow.Dispatcher This gets the active view for the app, … Read more
Windows Store apps embrace asynchrony – and an “asynchronous pause” is provided by Task.Delay. So within an asynchronous method, you’d write: await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30)); … or whatever delay you want. The asynchronous method will continue 30 seconds later, but the thread will not be blocked, just as for all await expressions.
You can use an instance of the SemaphoreSlim Class as a signal: private SemaphoreSlim signal = new SemaphoreSlim(0, 1); // set signal in event signal.Release(); // wait for signal somewhere else await signal.WaitAsync(); Alternatively, you can use an instance of the TaskCompletionSource<T> Class to create a Task<T> that represents the result of the button click: … Read more
As far as I can tell, this was caused by a conflict with the version of Python 3.7 that was recently added into the Windows Store. It looks like this added two “stubs” called python.exe and python3.exe into the %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps folder, and in my case, this was inserted before my existing Python executable’s entry in … Read more