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Closed . This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post . Closed 3 years ago . I am a newbie about Windows store apps development. What is the main function and benefits of Blend for Visual Studio. There is already a XAML designer and all tools embedded in Visual Studio. Why there is a need for Blend for Visual Studio? What is the main advantage of Blend for Visual Studio? Because in many videos I watched, People prefer to use Blend for

Is Universal Windows Platform the replacement of WinRT of Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps? I mean, there was a WinRT platform to develop metro apps exclusively for Windows 8. Now, that is replaced by UWP, isn't it? That is correct, UWP is the new platform for ALL Windows devices going forward (Win 10+). However WinRT is not replaced by UWP but is instead an extension on top of it, making UWP a much broader set of APIs that can be used across even more devices. As Microsoft themselves state: With this evolution, apps that target the UWP can call not only the WinRT APIs that are common to all

I'm trying to learn Windows Phone dev by making a basic app that provides information about Pokemon. To do this, I've created a portable class library (PokeLib.dll) so it's compatible with universal apps. I've tested this via a project in the same solution ("Test"), and it works fine. You can take a look at the code for these on my Github , but as far as I can tell, it's all good. These two projects are in the one solution. For the Windows Phone app's solution, I added PokeLib as an "existing project", added the references, and written some a couple lines of code to make sure I could call it

Universal app does not allow to remove or disable the close button it seems. We can hide it by going full screen. But when moving cursor over it, brings title bar back. Is there any way to remove the close button? Reason : I am working on screen time. After allowed time gets over, I want to block the screen. I should remove close button so that user cant get over my app. Edit : Removing close button wont help completely. It is a part of work. I am just asking how to remove it. With current released API, we are able to customize the color of these three buttons in title bar. But there is no

I'm upgrading windows phone 8 application. I created Universal app (Windows.Phone 8.1). The settings in old WP8.0 application are saved in following way: IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings.Add("MY_SETTINGS", value); Question: How can i get this settings when app is upgraded to WP8.1 (Universal app). I try the following: var localSettings = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings; var isContains1 = localSettings.Values.ContainsKey("MY_SETTINGS"); var roamingSettings = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.RoamingSettings; var isContains2 = roamingSettings.Values

I have a simple view with a ListView , I would like the ListView has two groups, a group for items with property complete= 1 and another group with complete= 0 . This is my class: public class myClass { public string name{ get; set; } public bool complete{ get; set; } } This is my XML: <ListView x:Name="MasterListView"> <ListView.GroupStyle> <GroupStyle > <GroupStyle.HeaderTemplate> </GroupStyle.HeaderTemplate> </GroupStyle> </ListView.GroupStyle> </ListView> <DataTemplate x:Key="MasterListViewItemTemplate" x:DataType="model:myClass"> <TextBlock Margin="0,5,5,5" Text="{x:Bind name}" FontSize=

I have a page with a relative panel to re-organize based on width. However, it doesn't seem to apply any state at load unless the width is > 720px. If I resize the page after it's loaded both states work. A workaround would be to check the window size on page loaded and manually choose the state, but I believe this should be handled automatically? I have other pages that work, I'm not sure what I'm doing different. Here is a simplified version of my code, I have it set red/blue backgrounds so I can tell if/which state is being applied <Page.Resources> <converters:HighlightConverter x:Key=