windows-8

With the announcement that VB6 will be supported on Windows 8, my question is: Is there any place where Microsoft has said (Yes or No) VB6 apps will run on the ARM based Tablets? And, if not, is there any ARM emulator, so we could test our VB6 apps on a Windows 8 ARM Tablet? Scott Whitlock My understanding is: No. Windows 8 will support 2 different APIs: Win32 (and .NET on top of that) and WinRT. The Windows 8 ARM builds will only support WinRT. VB6 is compiled against the Win32 API, it won't work on the ARM tablets. As explained by Adam Mihalcin in this answer . On ARM, there are no 3rd party

According to MSDN : In Windows 8, spell checking is built-in to edit controls. Well, I have the option enabled in my settings (both highlight and auto-correct) and I'm not seeing this in Notepad.exe or my own legacy Win32 app. What do I need to do to enable (hopefully it's that simple) this for my application? I did try to follow the info in the article and read a lot of the reference, but it really isn't clear and seems geared towards creating custom providers/solutions, but I'd be happy with any "built-in" behaviors. It is built-in only for Rich Edit controls, EM_SETLANGOPTIONS , IMF

I'm trying to save a string of user inputs to a file in a windows runtime app. However I'm getting the error System.UnauthorizedAccessException . How do I gain access to this Library? static private async Task WriteDataToFileAsync(string fileName, string content) { byte[] data = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(content); var folder = KnownFolders.DocumentsLibrary; var file = await folder.CreateFileAsync(fileName, CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting); using (var s = await file.OpenStreamForWriteAsync()) { await s.WriteAsync(data, 0, data.Length); } } "Documents library" capability in Visual Studio

I am looking for the list of assemblies in the ".NET for Windows 8" profile. This is the profile used for WIndows 8 Metro-style applications, and like Silverlight doesn't use the full .NET framework. .NET for Metro style apps — list of namespaces Converting your existing .NET Framework code — changes to the various APIs. I don't see any list currently... and WinRT is expected to change alot till the official release in 2012... current information about assemblies/not available in the "Metro/WinRT Client profile": http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2011/09/17/metro-net-framework

We are developing an app for Windows 8 in C#. Our app involves drawings the user creates, and we'd like to incorporate their drawings into the live tile. I have found examples of setting text and pictures as your app's live tile. Is there a way to do custom stuff to render lines, etc.? Or is the only way to do what we need by rendering a PNG out to our app's AppData directory? You will need to render a PNG or JPG into the apps data directory. The live tile has a fixed number of pre-defined templates and outside of that all you can do is pick the template with a full-tile image and supply your

I am building Windows Store Application (Winrt, Metro, Windows 8 app). I try give images in gridview animation: after image is loaded from web and opened it populates its cell. I have storyboard for that: <Storyboard x:Name="PopupImageStoryboard"> <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames EnableDependentAnimation="True" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(FrameworkElement.Width)" Storyboard.TargetName="image"> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="100"/> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.1" Value="240"/> </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames> <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames EnableDependentAnimation="True"

I'm writing a Windows Store/Metro/Modern/RT app for Windows 8/RT that needs to receive UDP packets on port 49030, but I can't seem to receive any packets. I've followed the tutorial on using DatagramSocket to the letter, and I'm getting nothing. I know my sender program is sending data, as I can see it on wireshark. I also wrote a test C# console app that uses the regular BSD socket API (System.Net.Sockets.Socket) that properly receives the data over UDP. This is the code that works: Socket s = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp); s.Bind(new IPEndPoint