winrt-xaml

I am needing to render some custom PNGs in a Windows 8 app. Basically I need to create a custom live tile by putting some drawings made in my app on top of an image for a live tile, and the only way to do this is render a PNG to disk, see here . What library should I use to do this? My first thought was to use a Xaml UserControl and RenderTargetBitmap , but it is not available in a Metro app. WinRT XAML Toolkit has some extension methods for WriteableBitmap that you could use too. You could probably use WriteableBitmapLoadExtensions for loading and WriteableBitmapSaveExtensions for saving. It

When you want your app to expand to the full screen (including status bar and appbar), you have to do : var applicationView = Windows.UI.ViewManagement.ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView(); applicationView.SetDesiredBoundsMode(Windows.UI.ViewManagement.ApplicationViewBoundsMode.UseCoreWindow); Then if you want to have a flyout in your appbar or anywhere in your app, they will be displayed behind the appbar : <Page.BottomAppBar> <CommandBar> <AppBarButton Icon="Preview" Label="Preview"> <AppBarButton.Flyout> <MenuFlyout> <MenuFlyoutItem Text="Fit width" /> <MenuFlyoutItem Text="Fit height" />

I am creating a windows 8 application in which I want to change foreground of live tile. I Have found a set of templates but didn't find any way to change live tile's text color. I have written following template code in my application. <tile> <visual> <binding template=""TileWidePeekImage01""> <image id=""1"" src=""{0}"" alt=""alt text""/> <text id=""1"">ActySystem</text> <text id=""2"">{1} Updated: {2} {3}</text> </binding> </visual> </tile> Please Help me! You have only two choice for live tile text color, white & black. Have you ever seen any live tile text with red or blue foreground,

How do you draw a string to an image in winRT ? In WinForms that could be done using drawstring() method inside the system.drawing namespace but i couldn't find its equivalent in WinRT API. Direct2D is a replacement for GDI in WinRT. So you'll have to use C++/CX with DirectX for drawing text. I don't have any examples for you, but maybe this link (and the links included) can help you on your way. In Windows 8.1 they finally support rendering of XAML controls to bitmap. Now you can use var renderTargetBitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap(); await renderTargetBitmap.RenderAsync(uiElement, width,

I'm designing an app that has a vertically panning one-dimensional list in the centre and the user is able to flip between lists horizontally due to a flipview. When a user drags horizontally within the listview, it selects that row because of cross-slide . This isn't the behaviour I want. Preferably I would want the flipview to start panning left and right. I think it's something to do with rails because when the user pans diagonally, they can pan the flipview. Cross-slide even happens when selectionmode is set to None How do I disable cross-slide, or how do I ensure that when a user pans

I want to disable Tile effect that is some kind of pushed effect and hover background color effect of ListView control, how can i do that? Thanks Filip Skakun Look at this question: Disable cross-slide selection for a listview You can also make changes to the template to remove any visual states and adornments - go to the designer and right click your ListView/Edit Additional Templates/Edit Generated Item Container (ItemContainerStyle)/Edit a Copy... - that will extract the template you can modify using your preferred method. Hanzalah Adalan After some googling I found that the highlighting

I'm trying to have 2 controls have the same height. Can I do it with XAML only? If I did something like <Canvas Height="{Binding Height, ElementName=AnotherControl}" /> it doesn't actually do anything and the height goes to zero. The Output panel doesn't complain about any binding errors so AnotherControl.Height really exists. I tried binding to ActualHeight but it doesn't do anything either. Anything else I missed? My guess is that you AnotherControl is not explicitly given a Height . Unfortunately, in WinRT (unlike WPF, but the same as Silverlight), ActualWidth and ActualHeight are what are