windows-8

i can't seem to find a dependency injection framework for windows 8 metro apps. Is there a framework for win8 metro apps? Ninject is not yet support for win8 metro. So does anybody have a suggestion? (Castle, Spring, ...) Here is the source for Ninject WinRT: https://github.com/remogloor/ninject It just not yet released. You could try Unity 3.0 for .NET4.5 Preview . I've been using the Beta version of Autofac Portable Library (which is supported in Metro apps) and it is working great so far. The Catel MVVM toolkit also contains a DI-container, it's metro version will be released this week

How can i get the AlbumArt image in the mp3 file? I am developing Windows Store app with c#. MusicProperties class gives me Album name artist name vs. But it cant give me albumart. Xyroid Check out MSDN sample to show thumbnail of any file. It also consists how to retrieve the album art. File and folder thumbnail sample If you want to save the album art check out How to store save Thumbnail image in device in windows 8 metro apps c# UPDATE 1 MediaFile is StorageFile . ImageControl is <Image ... /> using (StorageItemThumbnail thumbnail = await MediaFile.GetThumbnailAsync(ThumbnailMode.MusicView

I currently have a basic page which loads, and I need some way of obtaining the width and height of the window, preferably in the constructor. The problem is, in the constructor, or before the page is completely loaded, I can't seem to get hold of the width and height. After it is loaded I can just use: this.ActualWidth; this.ActualHeight; Is there any window load complete event I can use or any way to obtain the width and height during the loading? Mike Boula You can find out the size of the Window at any moment using the property Window.Current.Bounds . For more details, read: How to get the

It is exciting that Windows 8 is supporting so many languages for Metro App development. One that especially interested me was the HTML5/CSS/JavaScript. What I don't understand, is this code going to get compiled in a sort of executable (like the C#, VB, and C++ option), or would my app basically be running in IE as an actual web page? Yes. Javascript is executed on Windows 8 by the Chakra engine. Similar to the .NET just-in-time compiler, it translates javascript to optimized machine code. Also the approach taken by Google's V8 and Mozilla's TraceMonkey engines. Some background info is here .

My code uses : WebAuthenticationResult WebAuthenticationResult = await WebAuthenticationBroker.AuthenticateAsync( WebAuthenticationOptions.None, StartUri, EndUri); just like the Microsoft Web authentication broker sample It used to work on my desktop and on my tablet (Surface) but now it is not working on my desktop. It throws exception The process terminated unexpectedly. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007042B) It is working on the tablet and on different windows-8 desktop. Any suggestion what can cause this exception? I'm not sure but I think that the WebAuthBroker needs to be invoke on the UI

I have the following main.xaml and usercontrol. I need to place several times the user control on the 2nd row, 2nd column of the grid, By using visual studio it wont allow to drag and drop the user control, so I suppose I have to do it by code, I just dont know how MainPage.xaml <Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="768" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="1366" x:Name="grid" Background="Black"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="150"/> <RowDefinition/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition/> <ColumnDefinition Width="250"/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Border

I noticed that most (all?) .winmd files have a version of 255.255.255.255 like: Windows, Version=255.255.255.255, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null Metro apps have a reference to such assemblies with this version number. Further the Windows.winmd itself references: mscorlib, Version=255.255.255.255, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 However, an assembly with this version number does not exist, as far as I know. Does this version number have a special meaning? Is there any documentation for this? ECMA 335 assemblies need to have a version number. But the windows runtime type

I booted into the Windows Developer Preview today, hoping to get some code out and into a functioning Metro application. I'm excited for the launch of the Windows Store, and I wanted to be a part of it. So I fire up VS11 Express, and start coding. I barely even get out one line when: "The name 'View' does not exist in the current context" So I go back to my XAML page. I dig around, and lo and behold, my button named View is still there, with the following code: <Button Name="View" Content="View the help page" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="142" Margin="765,275,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top"