win-universal-app

In Windows Phone 8.0 I used this to handle the back button: protected override void OnBackKeyPress(CancelEventArgs e) { base.OnBackKeyPress(e); } This Event does not exists on the "Page" control. How can I handle a click on the back button in WP 8.1? Romasz Take a look at Windows.Phone.UI.Input.HardwareButtons . If you add a Basic Page to your project then VS will add a NavigationHelper class to your project which helps with Navigating thru your App, you can also see in the source code that it is subscribing to Windows.Phone.UI.Input.HardwareButtons.BackPressed . In case you want to extend

Trying out Windows Universal apps with JavaScript I noticed the WinJS.Utilities.isPhone property is no longer available, which makes sense since there would be no reason to ask for that at runtime. I do want to know just for testing purposes if there is a proper way of detecting the device my app is running in. EDIT: My question is NOT about detecting a mobile browser. I'm talking about about a brand new Universal Windows App for Window 10 that can run on phones, desktops, tablets, Xbox, HoloLEns, IoT devices et all. WinJS had a property that would tell me whether I was running on the phone or

I am having this error in Visual Studio 2015 when try to create app package for the store for a windows universal applicaiton: Manifest references file 'MyAppName.dll' which is not part of the payload. The error is in the ...\..MyAppSourcePath..\Package.appxmanifest file. This is somehow related Manifest references file 'Bing.Maps.dll' which is not part of the payload but in my case the error shows up only when build package for the store and is related to the MyAppName.dll (where MyAppName is the name of the name of my application). Another related question in MSDN: https://social.msdn

I have a fresh install of Visual Studio 2015 community with Windows 10 UWP SDK running in my computer. Recently I tried to open a project that I imported from another computer and when I launch the solution I get the next error message: Review Solution Actions Visual Studio update required One or more projects require a platform SDK (UAP, Version: 10.0.10586.0) that is either not installed or is included as pat of a future update to Visual Studio. Install the platform SDK to open these projects. When I click Ok, I see that all my projects in the solution explorer have the text (update required

In order to use a UWP application on a headless Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IOT Core we can use the background application template which basically creates a new UWP app with just a background task that is executed on startup: <Extensions> <Extension Category="windows.backgroundTasks" EntryPoint="BackgroundApplication1.StartupTask"> <BackgroundTasks> <iot:Task Type="startup" /> </BackgroundTasks> </Extension> </Extensions> In order to keep an application running, we can use the following startup code: public void Run( IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance ) { BackgroundTaskDeferral Deferral