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Dear Friend:
I don't come from the future to scold you. I only come from the past to remind you of what happened. In the future you are on your own and don't blame me for you mistakes. Lets get started.
So, oh oh... the Windows Store... that undiscovered country where you can't walk into.. at least if you are not prepared for misery, madness, despair and loneliness...
The common thread, my friend is that developing in the newer Microsoft UI frameworks feels exactly like those movies where you have to small heroes being led by a Ghost across a harmless looking green pasture towards a high cliff where the ultimate reward is (kinda like Lord of the Rings)...
The plot twist is that the Ghost doesn't follow along with them... the blink and suddenly the Spirit is miles away in an exactly parallel path and ironically a few feet behind (in the horizontal plane) from where the two guys are.
So the poor fellows have to turn sideways, walks lots of miles and then WALK BACK SOME HUNDRED FEET and then continue the pace with the mighty long lost warrior.
That's exactly what my team felt when we finished a WPF super project and saw Microsoft move towards Silverlight... we were foolish enough to follow and it took 6 to 7 months to port all our project to SL.... after three fast paced releases SL progress just stopped and we were left wondering what had happened...
Then came Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight again was on the spotlight... but it was a wholly different SL, so called 7, but basically based on 3, but supposedly the basis for Silverlight 5 which wasn't released at the time WP7 arrived.
This time we weren't so fool and thankfully we didn't have a need for a mobile application.
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 came and two different versions of Metro appeared. Not one was similar to Silverlight not remotely similar to XAML (WPF).
What's mind numbing is the fact that the XML schema, which is the way you validate things in XML hasn't changed since WPF.... its still: http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation.
So now that the Ghost has moved hundreds of miles to the East in almost a straight line and that the mountain is still leagues ahead and you haven't left the grassy knoll and you're attempting to start again but now with Universal? Windows Platform (isn't that spot already taken by Win32 which runs in everything from Windows 95 up until Windows 10), I tell you my friend: DON'T DO IT!!! THERE'S NOTHING THERE FOR YOU... COME BACK AND LEARN ANDROID OR SWIFT INSTEAD... THE GHOST IS NOT A WARRIOR BUT SOME KIND OF FOOL... THE REAL WARRIORS DIDN'T DIED, THEY JUST LEFT MSFT AND WENT TO HEALTHIER STARTUPS LIKE GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, NETFLIX AND LINKEDIN, OR EVEN SNAPSHAT AND INSTAGRAM.
If you are stubborn enough to continue... just remember that I warned you that the voyage would be of "misery, madness, despair and loneliness"... proceed at your own risk...my beloved friend...
Sincerely yours, an ex-thin Microsoft advocate.
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Your comments are noted, thanks!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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What's the problem?
Surely you just go to the app store and find an app called "Open My Calculator App."
Then again, that app might need an app opening app for that app and ... yes, okay, it sucks.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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"a new app to open this calculator"
well I have seen it done in minecraft, dunno if that's in the window store though.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Halsey - Castle[^]
I was in theme park Bobbejaanland in Belgium last weekend where they had some Halloween show.
The show was alright, but the music is what really got my attention.
This song in particular, so SOTW
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Thanks for sharing!
I've read about Myrkur's new album a month or two ago, but she kind of went of my radar.
She's back on it now
Trees of Eternity looks familiar, I've seen that name and CD cover before.
Sounds very nice, going into my Spotify playlist!
It's great that you still know about Finvarra!
At least I know my SOTW isn't in vain
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Follow your heart and tell me you love me, don't make a stupid mistake, don't let me down, give color to your life
With a soft "G"
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Yeah, not exactly sugarfree, still quite catchy, I listen to them in my car sometimes. Besides, who doesn't want to hear stuff like that from two hot chicks ?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Quote: not exactly sugarfree yes, a contradiction - I had it on the tip of my tongue ... a bit too sweet as for my taste... but acceptable.
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Message Closed
modified 26-Oct-17 8:26am.
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hsafavi wrote: how can i do that?
By postin it in the correct forum.
Please read the instructions above and check the red marked text
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I would have told him to wear some feathers on the head and then dance around the computer with two rattles in the hands.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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people tell me to catch pokemons you throw balls at them from your phone,
sounds a bit more complicated though...
I'd suggest throwing the whole phone
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Really?[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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We just had a fire drill in our office complex, 4 buildings, and we did just that. Down one set of stairs, then we saw people going down a different set of stairs, got to the bottom of that went out a door UP a set of stairs into the neighboring parking deck in then out the front to the plaza.
I even commented that we were all lemmings.
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You have little choice other than to follow the route to get out of the building. If it's the real thing and people panic, it's a very bad idea to follow the lemmings or get into their way.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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German endeavours emancipates mice after a birth (6,5,4)
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Probably not PC...
ARBEIT MACHT FREI
Anagram of MICE AFTER A BIRTH
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is this CCC or ping pong?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Oh, c**k!
I forgot I did it yesterday ... do you want it tomorrow? I can nominate if you want.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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