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I developed a simple free game for Windows 8 Store and now I want to ask my users to give the game a rating and possibly write it a review. How can I check if they already did this (i.e. rated the game or wrote a review), so I do no not ask again? Jared has pretty much nailed it. I don't think you can unless there is a Windows Store API that provides that information to your app. The user information and his/her rate and review status and data is stored outside of your app and therefore you have to query the external data source (Windows Store in this case) to know whether he or she has rated

I ran the Windows 8 App Certification Kit on my app and it says it will fail because of Sqllite. Am I referencing code incorrectly or can I ignore this problem? Here is the response: Impact if not fixed: Using an API that is not part of the Windows SDK for Windows Store apps violates the Windows Store certification requirements. API __CppXcptFilter in msvcr110.dll is not supported for this application type. sqlite3.dll calls this API. API __clean_type_info_names_internal in msvcr110.dll is not supported for this application type. sqlite3.dll calls this API. API __crtTerminateProcess in

I am adding localization to my UWP app by adding x:uid tags to all of my elements and using the multilingual toolkit. However I've run into an issue where in one case I change the text itself in the narrow view using the visualstatemanager. How can I do this in a localized app? My first thought would be to change the uid of the element to the new match the new text, I'm not sure it's possible. Here is an example of what I'd like to do, but doesn't work: <textblock x:Name="DescriptionTextBox" x:uid="DescriptionTextBox"/> // Normal long description .... <VisualState x:Name="NarrowState">

Is there any way to show a Popup in Windows 8 Metro centered? Setting VerticalAlignment and HorizontalAlignment to "Center", and VerticsalOffset and HorizontalOffset to 0 causes howing popup with left-up corner in the center of the screen. Is there any way to do it nicely? To make this problem harder, this popup has different size in snapped view, where is also should be centered. Any thoughts? Hope this helps, how about placing the popup in a canvas then manipulate the canvas... XAML <Canvas x:Name="myCanvas" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Height="127" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="191"/>

I am trying to store data in a "Metro" App for Windows 8 using IndexedDB. I would like to be able to browse the database (to monitor that my operations modify the data as intended). So my question is; Is there any way of viewing the actual database of a metro app (IE10)? (something like in Chrome Dev Tools (Resources > IndexedDB)) Regards Not that I know, but my linq2indexeddb library has a viewer in it. That way you can inspect the content of you database while debugging. The nuget package for Metro apps can be found here . And as last, I have a blogpost on how you can use it. The IE team has

Windows 8 metro style app tiles are created based on pre-defined xml templates (found here ). Is there any way to hook up to Windows' rendering of the tile to allow a tile preview within an app? In my app I would like to offer the user a subset of the tile templates listed in the above link and let the user customize the tile content. A live preview of the customized tile rendered within my app would greatly improve the user experience. you should look into HubTile . I don't know any free control's right now, but Telerik and Syncfusion have HubTile control You can't get access to real Windows

I have the experience of adding the progress bars and progress rings while calling async functions . That has been an easy job as it relies on only IsIndeterminate and IsActive properties of progress bar and progress ring respectively . Now my question is that , how to show a progress bar/ring in the app while some webpage is loading in the webview control of a windows 8 app . I am searching for a property or event , that tells the web page in web view is currently in loading state . If somebody came across such a property , please write it up else if you have any other solutions , please do