windows-8

I'm building an my first app (I'm a complete noob) in C# for windows 8. And I have some classes that I have created. When the app runs it needs to read data from a sqlite database. I have a class for each table, but I don't know how to map each class property to its respective column in the database. I can't seem to find any info and all the stuff I've seen seems to map them automatically or doesn't mention how it's done e.g. public class Person { [PrimaryKey, AutoIncrement] public int Id { get; set; } [MaxLength(30)] public string Name { get; set; } [MaxLength(30)] public string Surname { get

I'd like to enable Toast Notifications for a Windows 8 Store Application i am building. The documentation says: "Simply set the Toast Capable option to "Yes" in the Notifications section of the Application UI tab." (Taken from How to opt in for toast notifications ) Unfortunately, the Visual Studio manifest editor doesn't seem to have this option. Am i missing anything? *I know this can be done by editing the manifest file, but i am just wondering why it is missing from Visual Studio It is accessible from the Visual Studio manifest editor. Make sure that you are on the "Application UI" tab.

I've looked through MSDN on both the Store API and the Launchers collection, and can't seem to find a task or launcher that would open up an application in the Marketplace application ready for a user to rate, as we could really easily do in Windows Phone 7 . Is there an alternative way that I can easily point a user towards leaving a review/rating, or are we going to have to wait until MS provides this, or does it already exist? I believe, or should I say "I hope", that the "rate and review" command appears automatically under the settings charm for all applications downloaded from the store.

I'm trying to create an LINQ Query with 4 arguments in the Where clause. It's a Windows 8 App project and I'm using an SQLite Database. ( SQLite implementation ) Here's the code snippet: public List<FinancialListBoxExpenseItem> retrieveExpenseItems(int month, int year, bool isPaid, StaticResources.FrequencyEnum frequencyEnum) { List<FinancialListBoxExpenseItem> tmpList = null; connection.RunInTransaction(() => { var items = from s in connection.Table<FinancialListBoxExpenseItem>() where (s.expenseDateNextPayment.Month == month) && (s.expenseDateNextPayment.Year == year) && (s

I'm working on a C# Metro style app for Windows 8, and I'm having a problem getting my data bound combo box to update when the source data changes. Here's the data source: public class Range { public string range_name { get; set; } public string range_description { get; set; } public int min { get; set; } public int max { get; set; } } static List<Range> ranges = new List<Range> { new Range { range_name = "Foo", range_description = "Foo: (0-10)", min = 0, max = 10}, new Range { range_name = "Bar", range_description = "Bar: (5-15)", min = 5, max = 15}, new Range { range_name = "Baz", range

I'm building a metro style application using Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012. I am very new to this applications and I need help. I have defined a button in XAML with button background is set from an image. At mouse over the button changes it background to blank. I want to change it an make the image about 50% transparent on mouse over. Is that possible? Any help? Thank you. I have declared the button as follows: <Button Height="100" Width="100" Margin="0,0,0,0"> <Button.Background> <ImageBrush ImageSource="../Images/home.png"></ImageBrush> </Button.Background> </Button> The Interactivity

I am working on a metro app right now and I'm looking to enable multitouch. I've browsed around google, but I can't seem to find any API to support it. Can someone point me in the right direction to support multitouch actions in a Windows 8 Metro app? What exactly are you trying to do? There are Touch, Pointer (an abstraction around touch/mouse/stylus), and Manipulation events on every UI element In JavaScript you can use the event.pointerId to detected multiple touch inputs. This identifier gives every new input an id. When you want to get multiplie touches for a move with the finger, you can

I've spotted a strange problem while printing a Postscript file . So here is my setup: I have a Windows 8 PC , on this PC there is an C# application "NetworkPrintTest.exe", which, when executed, should open a PDF, generate a Postscript file and ultimately should print it. But it doesn't do anything. I don't get an error but it won't print either. The same program runs error free on windows 7 and i even get the printer to print the file. As mentioned above the .ps file is generated successfully on both operating systems but the printing failes. Here is my source code which should print the file

I'm trying to find out if a user added new music to the Music folder on the phone since app was last used. I try to do this by checking the DateModified of the Music folder (which updates correctly on the computer when adding new music to the phone): async void GetModifiedDate () { BasicProperties props = await KnownFolders.MusicLibrary.GetBasicPropertiesAsync(); Debug.WriteLine("DATEMODIFIED: " + props.DateModified.ToString()); } Unfortunately this returns: DATEMODIFIED: 1/1/1601 1:00:00 AM +01:00 Am I doing something wrong or is there another quick way to check if user added new music?