windows-runtime

I am searching a solution to pin an installed app or desktop application to the windows 8 startscreen. I have figured out to do this like it is described in this post before There has also been a long disscusion about this problem But there was no answer to my question: How can I pin a new tile to a selected position on the startscreen? If I install a new app/application windows 8 pins the new application at the end of the Startscreen. (windows 8.1 does not) But if I want to place the tile f.e. in the second group on third position , there is possibilty to do this. I am in an enterprise

For a Windows 8 Application in C/XAML I have to store some data to the LocalState folder. I have some trouble using async/await operator I think. When I am saving datas while the application is running, everything works fine, but when I try to save the data during the OnSuspending method, it seems that my application doesn't wait for my saving method to be finished to suspend the application. The stranger thing is that when I'm debugging and doing all the operation step by step slowly everything works fine, but when I don't put any breakpoints, the application is closed before the data are

I'm building a universal app and my Win8.1 app has to show a grid of items. Normally the grid consists of 3 columns, but on smaller screens I want the items to wrap so that there are only 2 columns (or even 1). This is my code: <GridView ItemsSource="{Binding Regions}" IsItemClickEnabled="True"> <GridView.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <ItemsWrapGrid Orientation="Horizontal" MaximumRowsOrColumns="3" MinWidth="400" /> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </GridView.ItemsPanel> <GridView.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="10"> <Image Source="{Binding Code, Converter=

I got a support email from a customer saying his app crashes when it starts and all he gets is a message like: (App Name) ran into a problem You can send info to Microsoft about what went wrong to help improve this app. Files that will be sent to Microsoft C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Local\Temp\WER####.tmp.appcompat.txt C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Local\Temp\WER####.tmp.hdmp I thought - Microsoft isn't going to help them really with my silly app. They should send the dump file to me for debugging, but how to do it? A sample dump file I got from a crashing app was 90MB and after zipping it is

Possible Duplicate: Check if a file exists in the project in WinRT I'm using the StorageFolder and need to check if a file exists befor I read it to avoid a exception. my code looks like this: StorageFolder storageFolder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder; StorageFile sampleFile = await storageFolder.GetFileAsync(myPath); the problem is, I can't find a method which checks if a file exist Last time I checked you had to catch an exception: (might have changed) Edit: this is one way to do it :) Like so: static async Task<bool> DoesFileExistAsync(string fileName) { try { await ApplicationData

I have calls to Grid.SetRow and Grid.SetColumn in my code which I'm trying to animate. According to the answer at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/wpf/thread/257779f7-b459-43fc-a4a1-f24641c50e09 , it is recommended to make use of FluidMoveBehavior, but it doesn't look like this is available for Windows 8. What are my options for animating the children of a Grid when their positions change? I'm basically looking for a way to achieve linear transition. There is a new built-in feature called Transitions that can be used, here is an intro . Try adding a RepositionThemeTransition to