How does Windows 8 Runtime (WinRT / Windows Store apps / Windows 10 Universal App) compare to Silverlight and WPF? [closed]

At the lowest level, WinRT is an object model defined on ABI level. It uses COM as a base (so every WinRT object implements IUnknown and does refcounting), and builds from there. It does add quite a lot of new concepts in comparison to COM of old, most of which come directly from .NET – … Read more

Synchronously waiting for an async operation, and why does Wait() freeze the program here

The await inside your asynchronous method is trying to come back to the UI thread. Since the UI thread is busy waiting for the entire task to complete, you have a deadlock. Moving the async call to Task.Run() solves the issue. Because the async call is now running on a thread pool thread, it doesn’t … Read more

Signtool error: No certificates were found that met all given criteria with a Windows Store App?

When getting this error through Visual Studio it was because there was a signing certificate setup to match the computer it was originally developed on. You can check this by going to the project properties > signing tab and checking the certificate details. You can uncheck “Sign the ClickOnce manifests” to disable signing. If you … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)