Windows Development

saving canvas as image in metro style app

29-Jun-12 11:10

Have a Win 8 Desktop app with buttons that are gray, when when moused-over, their color changes. Also shows tooltip.

When the user touches, not clicks or mouses over, I want to NOT change the color not show the tooltip when touched?

Anyone know if this possible? Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks

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Farhan Ghumra27-Jun-12 22:50

Farhan Ghumra

27-Jun-12 22:50

Hi, I am developing a paint like application in metro style. I want to save whatever content is drawn on canvas as image. I have checked this solutions but it didn't helped me.

Save canvas to bitmap[^]

WPF/XAML: Saving a Window or Canvas as a PNG Bitmap[^]

So how can I save the canvas content as image in win 8 metro app? Please help me with sample coding.

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How to start learning windows phone applications develop?

lixiaobin52527-Jun-12 4:14

lixiaobin525

27-Jun-12 4:14

How to start learning windows phone applications develop?
Where can I find the sources or samples?

Re: How to start learning windows phone applications develop?

Richard MacCutchan27-Jun-12 4:20

Richard MacCutchan

27-Jun-12 4:20

Well, you could try using Google, but failing that take a look at Pete O'Hanlon's excellent Peeling the Mango - Win Phone 7 Programming from the Ground Up (Part 1)[^].

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windows 8 release preview

k.Prathap1-Jun-12 0:20

k.Prathap

1-Jun-12 0:20

hey any one using windows 8 release preview Smile | :)

Re: windows 8 release preview

Steve Maier5-Jun-12 6:43

Steve Maier

5-Jun-12 6:43

They have really cleaned up alot of things in the RC version. Even a problem that I was having with the ListView control during my app review with Microsoft, was fixed in the new version. I have the consumer preview and RC both as VMs on my Win7 machine. I even installed the RC on my youngest son's laptop and it works well for him too.

Steve Maier

Re: windows 8 release preview

AvivaPhong5-Jul-12 20:11

AvivaPhong

5-Jul-12 20:11

I just want to mention that Microsoft still have problem with Grid and List view in Win 8 RP and this is the Link ....

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/90275bb4-8b9b-46c2-8507-0b399d17e12f[^]

I hope that they dont have other problems that the developer need to know about it

Re: windows 8 release preview

Paul Conrad5-Jun-12 8:28

Paul Conrad

5-Jun-12 8:28

Yes, running it in a virtual box at the moment.

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backward compatibility

BupeChombaDerrick7-May-12 15:07

BupeChombaDerrick

7-May-12 15:07

I was wondering if previous apps can be run on windows 8 or is it that one has to recreate the app using WinRT & Metro technology? Confused | :confused:

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Jeremy Hutchinson9-May-12 5:19

Jeremy Hutchinson

9-May-12 5:19

Your previously built apps will continue to run on the Desktop. If you wanted your app to run as a Metro Style app it will require at least somewhat of a rewrite.

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Kevin McFarlane24-May-12 5:19

Kevin McFarlane

24-May-12 5:19

The easiest type of "legacy" app. to get working on WinRT is a Silverlight one. And within that subset the easiest is one written using MVVM.

This is the best analysis I’ve seen so far.
Assessing the Windows 8 Development Platform[^]

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BupeChombaDerrick26-May-12 7:00

BupeChombaDerrick

26-May-12 7:00

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man or woman.”

Albert Holguin5-Jun-12 7:41

Albert Holguin

5-Jun-12 7:41

Well, if you wrote your app well, you only have to rewrite the user interface...

Enumerate network printers in metro apps

Christian Amado2-Aug-12 11:17

Christian Amado

2-Aug-12 11:17

Yes, Microsoft always offer backward compatibility in all its Windows versions.

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Please mark as answer, if it helps.

chameli.sujith25-Apr-12 22:49

chameli.sujith

25-Apr-12 22:49

How can I enumerate a network printer connected in a network in my Metro Style App, and obtain its IP Address.

Metro App Certification

Kevin Marois21-Mar-12 8:21

21-Mar-12 8:21

I am working on a C# Metro app in VS2011 Beta. When I run the Windows App Certification Kit my application doesn't show up. What's strange is that other apps I've done do show up. I have no answer for why some show up and some don't.

Anyone know what needs to be done in VS or my app to make it visible in the app cert tool?

Everything makes sense in someone's mind

Nish Nishant29-Mar-12 6:42

29-Mar-12 6:42

These 2 threads on the MSDN forums don't spell good news for you:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/toolsforwinapps/thread/fd856f63-0bd8-4e3a-a57c-f43804938a9c[^]

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/toolsforwinapps/thread/df54f1cd-e970-4002-b7a5-7e9315203508[^]

Those threads are for the DP but I'd assume the CP may be showing the same issues.

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Kevin Marois29-Mar-12 6:51

29-Mar-12 6:51

We already filed a bug with MS and got a resolution. Thank anyway.

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Nish Nishant29-Mar-12 6:53

29-Mar-12 6:53

Kevin Marois wrote:
We already filed a bug with MS and got a resolution. Thank anyway.

Mind sharing how you resolved it?

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Kevin Marois29-Mar-12 6:55

29-Mar-12 6:55

I'm sorry I can't. It's covered under our NDA.

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Nish Nishant29-Mar-12 6:55

Re: Snap? (and Virtual Box?)

29-Mar-12 6:55

Kevin Marois wrote:
I'm sorry I can't. It's covered under our NDA.

No problem, that was what I guessed when you posted that message but thought I'd double-check to be sure.

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Snap? (and Virtual Box?)

Super Lloyd8-Mar-12 4:38

Super Lloyd

8-Mar-12 4:38

I have Windows 8 installed in Virtual Box.
I just can't snap 2 metro on the screen.... :/
Can you?
Is it because of Virtual Box?
What kind of mouse gesture magic should I do?

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Nish Nishant20-Mar-12 4:33