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I am writing a simple metro app. However, the API blocks when accessing files. By blocking, I mean the programs waits forever. Creating/opening a file or folder should take at most a few seconds. In this case, it takes forever. When I run the program, it never comes back from OnTest. Is it what you get. I understand .Wait will wait for the creation of files and folders to finishe. Maybe that's not great design. However, that's not the point. My question is: Do you get the same behavior (blocks the program forever) Is it what's supposed to happen or is it a bug in WinRT? (I am using the

I've this piece of code public static class Storage { public async static Task<bool> Exists(string filename) { var folder = await Package.Current.InstalledLocation.GetFolderAsync("Assets"); var _files= await folder.GetFilesAsync(CommonFileQuery.OrderByName).AsTask().ConfigureAwait(false); var file = _files.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == filename); return file != null; } } and calling it from my Windows 8 Store application; this.IconExists = this.Game != null && Storage.Exists(this.IconName).Result; So if I put a break point on the above line and run it step by step, it works, but without

Printing Document using WinRT : 1) To Keep tracking if there are more data Or text data to print in a formatted page. This can be done using RichTextBlock and RichTextBlockOverflow like below: <RichTextBlock Foreground="Black" x:Name="textContent" FontSize="18" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" OverflowContentTarget="{Binding ElementName=firstLinkedContainer}" IsTextSelectionEnabled="True" TextAlignment="Left" FontFamily="Segoe UI" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left"> </RichTextBlok> <RichTextBlockOverflow x:Name="firstLinkedContainer" OverflowContentTarget="{Binding ElementName

I was trying to found the most efficient and maybe implemented way in .NET Framework Classes to monitorice drives, actually I know how to do this P/invoking, using structures, etc... but it's a lot of code and I wanted to improve it. So I've found this interesting Class, DeviceWatcher , which seems to be able only for Metro apps? I can't find much info about that class and I would like to know if from a Winforms maybe referencing the needed dll I could instance this class to use it in a Winforms? John Koerner Yes, it is possible, provided you are running on Win 8 / Win Server 2012. Scott

After upgrading my Silverlight 5 solution to Visual Studio 2012 (RTM), and then updating to Windows 8 (RTM), I noticed that when you set a breakpoint in XAML, you get the following tooltip in debug mode: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. Symbol not found: System.Xml.Xsl.Runtime.XmlQueryRuntime.OnCurrentNodeChanged2. I then tried to set a breakpoint in the XAML of a Windows Store App test project, and then of a WPF application, but I got the exact same tooltip. I tried to repair Visual Studio 2012, but that did not change anything. In Visual Studio 2010 such breakpoints worked fine. Is

I have created a Popup by using the following code, but I can not figure out how to center it I tried to automatically change the margin on runtime, but I could not figure out how to do it, but do anybody has an idea of how to center the popup? It does not has a standard-dimension cause I need to globalize my program <Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" Name="MainGrid"> <Popup x:Uid="LoginPopup" IsOpen="True" Name="LoginPopup"> <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto" /> <RowDefinition Height="Auto" /> <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>