winrt-xaml

In windows desktop development (WinForms, WPF), the app.config is a potential place to put things like connection strings or uri's used within the app. This allows the end user to change these settings, application wide, without having to have a developer rebuild and redeploy. Is there a similar concept in WinRT apps? The closest thing I see is there is the local application data: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh700361.aspx The trouble I am having is that it seems like creating values and setting values in local application data are all done within code. Is there a way

I'm currently looking to implement a CommandBar for a WinRT Windows Phone 8.1 app. Overall it is very straightforward but I am unable to style the control. I have themed my app so that the accent colour has been changed to green. This works well for pretty much everywhere in the app (buttons, textblocks etc.) but not for the AppBarButton. The brushes I'm overriding are SystemColorControlAccentBrush and PhoneAccentBrush but changing these does not make any difference to the colour of the AppBarButton when pressed: Any idea what I'm doing wrong/can this colour be changed? Set the CommandBar's

I'm beginner in Metro Style Developing, I tried to make a small game that's need a timer, countdown from 10 to 0. But at this Visual Studio there is no Timer Component, and DispatcherTimer Not mapped to an xmlns. I Tried to use TimeSpan, that have this field "TicksPerSecond" But this example dosen't help me to make my countdown timer : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timespan.tickspersecond.aspx TimeSpan also have this method "FromSeconds", and i Can't also use this one for my countdown timer : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timespan.fromseconds.aspx also I Read

I'm developing a simple Crud Application (a windows 8.1 store application) using Caliburn Micro 2.0.0-alpha2 I'm in trouble with navigation between viewmodels, passing object. I read many times the solution proposed by Anders Gustafsson ( How to pass parameter to navigated view model with WinRT Caliburn.Micro? ) and i tried to adapt it to my scope. But the object is alwais null. I need to pass a single object selected from a listView to my crudPage. The crudPage is composed by an userControl that shown the FormView. So i want to initialize this Form, with the values of the passed object. I

I have a Windows RT app where I programmatically change the Bitmap in the Image component. All works well with the XAML and the code below except the flickering we see when the image is changed. What should I change to get rid of the flickering? XAML : <Page x:Class="iSurfBrainViewProto01.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="using:iSurfBrainViewProto01" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc