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I'm trying to download a file using this code on a windows 10 universal app: await downloadOperation.StartAsync().AsTask(token, progressCallback); it's working on pc but on mobile sometimes it's doesn't start downloading and not even giving an exception until I restart the mobile. Is it a bug in the system or I'm missing something? Edit 1: the task's status is "waiting for activation" so it's not throwing an exception. it's just waiting and not starting until I restart the phone I'm trying always with the same url and I don't have this problem on the pc. It's about the phone only. The task's

When building a universal application using Windows 10 (or Windows 8.1 WinRT), is it possible to force the application's main window to maximise on launch? This is obviously natural behaviour for the application when running on a mobile device but not when running on the desktop. This is certainly possible using WinForms: How do I make a WinForms app go Full Screen How to display a Windows Form in full screen on top of the taskbar? But I haven't so far managed to find anything in the Microsoft Documentation about this for Windows 10. An app can request to start as full screen by setting the

I'm trying to install packages from within Pycharm in Windows 10. I am behind a proxy, so I have set up the proxy information as well as my login details and my connection seems to work. My problem is that both pip and Setup_tools seems fails to connect to the internet and I get the following error after multiple connections retries have failed: No matching distribution found for [package name] For example, when I try to install Numpy: PS: I have looked at a similar question over here , however I didn't find that helpful. I have managed to get pip to work from the command prompt(CMD) after

On windows 10 when we create a program named main.exe or rename a program to main.exe , the program will show a pop up as seen here : There is 2 different pop up than can be shown : -the game bar one (French and English version): -the screenshot one : (In English: Press Win + Alt + PrintScreen to take a screenshot) I originally discovered the problem while using python and cx_freeze, I have tested this on multiple programs, including (as seen above) renaming notepad++.exe to main.exe , and each time, one of the pop up was there, We can also note that the pop up appears alternatively (one game

Today I updated my Windows 10 PC to Threshold 2. The update went fine apart from Visual Studio refusing to run any of my Universal Windows 10 projects (including new ones). When I try run an app I get this message: Unable to activate Windows Store app '{App}'. The {App name}.exe process started, but the activation request failed with error 'The app didn't start'. I have tried everything: Repairing / Uninstalling then Installing Visual Studio Cleaned the Solution Deleted the 'bin' and 'obj' folders Checked for SDK/Visual Studio updates Checked if there was an app.json (there wasn't) Updated