windows-runtime

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've created extended splash screen following guide offered by Microsoft. The screen shows off, data loads, but then the app doesn't navigate to landing page. How is this possible? ExtendedSplash.xaml.cs public sealed partial class ExtendedSplash { public ExtendedSplash(SplashScreen splash) { this.InitializeComponent(); // Position the extended splash screen image in the same location as the splash screen image. this.extendedSplashImage.SetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty, splash.ImageLocation.X); this.extendedSplashImage.SetValue(Canvas.TopProperty, splash.ImageLocation.Y); this.extendedSplashImage

Implementation of state handling in windows 8 using mvvmlight Is there any method avilable in mvvmligt to manage states in WinRT? How I can duplicate the functionality of default Suspensionmanager by using WinRT? And the second one is about managing navigation cycle ie if I navigated from page A - > B. and the go for suspend and shutdown state. When I re start the application in need to open page B. and while presses back key I need to load A. How I can effectively implement this using MVVM light in my WinRT application? I wrote this originally for WP7 and have been updating for Win8 RT. It

I am developing an image gallery application .. Its loading images from the internet.. What i am doing is collecting image url into an array and bind it into a list view .. Its works fine.. But my problem is the images shows a cross mark ( 'X') till loading the images. What i am expecting is Display a loading image for each emage untill loads the original image if 1 is not possible, how can i remove the cross mark? You cannot remove the 'X' mark as that is a browser-specific feature. You could, however, set your images to have a background image of your loading image. simple example: <img src=

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