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I used the toast notifications for desktop app since Windows 8.1 but with the new action center in Windows 10, I am experiencing some unexpected behaviours. When the user do nothing with the toast, it simply disappear without going to the action center ( ToastNotification.Dismissed is ToastDismissalReason.TimedOut ). I don't know if it related to the fact that I use it in a win32 app but the same toast in a Windows Universal App goes to the action center when it timed out. One thing to note is that I have not registered an AppUserModelID for my win32 app like it was needed in W8.1, it seems to

If my window has the 'always on top' extended style set, I would expect it to be on top of all windows that do not have the 'Always on top' style set and those windows that have the 'Always on top' style set but were activated before my window was activated. To test this feature, I open the task manager window - set it to always on top and then I open my window ( myWindow ). In Windows 7, I observe the expected behaviour - myWindow comes on top of the task manager. However, in Windows 10, that's not the case. The task manager is 'always on top' of other windows, even if those windows in

Windows 10's security features sometimes blocks my application installer as not trusted, saying "This app has been blocked for your protection". (My installer is digitally signed.) There are workarounds available for end users, but this is not a good user experience. What should I do so Windows 10 trusts my application when downloaded from my company website? You can improve your reputation by signing with a trusted code-signing certificate. Established businesses resolve this chicken-and-egg problem by having previously used code-signing (i.e., back when Microsoft was less draconian). The

Is it possible for a UWP app to launch its Desktop Bridge (full-trust application component) with arbitrary command-line arguments? I see the ability to specify "argument groups" (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.ApplicationModel.FullTrustProcessLauncher ), but it looks like that only supports using a predefined ParameterGroup . I need to launch a UWP with programmatically-determined (at launch time) arbitrary command-line arguments. Is this possible, and if so, how? No this is not possible today. One quick way to accomplish the scenario is to have the UWP write the command

I started porting my app to Windows 10 Universal App today, started as a blank project. However I can't open the Package.appxmanifest file in Visual Studio, even when I right-click and select View Code (F7). It says "Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information." Any solution for this? Q U A N G I fixed it by removing the Apache Cordova Tools Package. Michael Braude You are hitting by a known bug that we have fixed it for new installs. However, you could hit it if you installed the tools for universal apps within a specific

My application happens to be written in Python using pygame, which wraps SDL, but I'm imagining that this is probably a more-general question to do with the Windows API. In some of my Python applications, I want pixel-for-pixel control under Windows 10 even at high resolutions. I want to be able to ensure, for example, that if my Surface Pro 3 has a native resolution of 2160x1440, then I can enter full-screen mode with those dimensions and present a full-screen image of exactly those dimensions. The barrier to this is "DPI scaling". By default, under Windows' Settings -> Display, the value of