microsoft-metro

I'd like to be able to force the keyboard to show on screen in my Metro app. My goal is to test out different layouts/controls and get a feel for the interaction. My problem is that I'm running Win8 on a MacBook Pro (Parallels) and I don't know how to override the physical keyboard and show it on screen instead. Similarly, I'd like to be able to force rotation if possible. You could run your app the Simulator . You can put the Simulator in "Touch Mode" and that will interpret mouse clicks as touch events in the on screen controls like Text Boxes and you can choose to rotate the Simulator into

The Metro documentation states that the applications are self-consistent (no shared DLL’s, etc), So I’m just wondering how you can create a modular, BIG Metro application by creating reusable components/libraries. Considering the case for HTML5/JavaScript Metro apps, if a lot of them should contain the same CSS and JavaScript (consider jQuery, templates) or WinJS scripts then it doesn't look quite good … I expected some form of libraries/reuse to exist from the start. The HDD space is definitely cheap nowadays but I think that a versioned library repository should be in place and the

I'm creating a MetroStyle app and I want to use a website API that is based on the HTTP Get methods. For instance to login I should download the XML returned by this URL: websitehost.com/api/login.php?u=username&p=password The problem is that the new MetroStyle apps won't let me to use many of the methods I've been using for years in .Net so how can I download the returned XML document and parse it? Akku You might be searching for this: public async Task<string> DownloadPageStringAsync(string url) { HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler() { UseDefaultCredentials = true,

I have a Div Defined as: <div class="article-content" data-win-bind="innerHTML: content"></div> and im binding to it with an object which has content property. now the object i create using external resources and sometimes the content property would has content like this : "some text <iframe width="560" height="315" src="youtubelink" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" this throw exception: Unable to add dynamic content. A script attempted to inject dynamic content, or elements previously modified dynamically, that might be unsafe. For example, using the innerHTML property to add script