Metro-design

Make an MVC Application into a SPA with AJAX and History.js

13 Apr 2014 by Edson_Ferreira

This tip will demonstrate how to create a SPA using an MVC Application, AJAX and History.js

Can we create Metro app in VS 2012 in window 7.

22 Oct 2012 by Sandeep Mewara

No. You need to have Windows8 for metro app. Whole stack is changed in Win8 and Metro Apps are supported only in Win8 for now.

VS2012

A StringFormat Replacement for Windows RT

18 Apr 2013 by Yvan Rodrigues

A simple but effective way for format bound data in XAML with the Windows Runtime

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming Revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

19 Jan 2015 by matthewproctor

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

21 Apr 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

Data Serializer updated for Windows Metro

16 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Data serializer update for Windows Metro.

Windows-Phone-7

iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences

7 Jun 2012 by Rey Bango

In this article we’re going to work with a MSNBC plug-in-free experience for rich media. It breaks down to two things: styles and scripts.

iOS

Need sample application explaining use of WriteableBitmapEx for winrt or wpf

3 Jul 2012 by Fun@learn

Check the sample application present with the library. They are very helpful to understand how to use, tweak the library.This library is excellent. Bitmap operations are not supported natively, but these guys did all the hard work to make it simpler for others.Major reason for this...

Drawing in metro style application

22 Jul 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

i have successfully developed my app, you can check Metro Paint[^]

drawing

22 Jul 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Check out on PluralSight[^], It offers five courses.Here is "Building Windows 8 Metro Apps with C# and XAML"[^] course

Deepzoom in Windows 8 using WinJS

24 Jul 2012 by aadharshkannan

This gives you a modified version of Seadragon to run in Windows 8 Metro UI.

Ajax

Newsletter - Filter out Metro articles?

14 Aug 2012 by Wes Aday

This seems to be better suited to the site bugs and suggestions forum http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1645/Site-Bugs-Suggestions.aspx[^]

convert from PDF to Bimap

28 Sep 2012 by Richard MacCutchan

A PDF file is not a simple byte array, it is a structured file consisting of different content elements. Go to the Adobe website and get a copy of the PDF documentation for further information.

Bitmap

PDF

Async Await Synchronous confusion - The Horror

18 Oct 2012 by Ridge363

Have you tried the AsTask() extenstion method? This may be what you need.Signature:WindowsRuntimeSystemExtensions.AsTask Method (IAsyncOperation)MSDN LinkAsTask Method var f = requestedFolder.GetFilesAsync().AsTask(); IReadOnlyList f = theTask.Result;

.NET4.5

.NET

xml data write and read

11 Nov 2012 by Shanalal Kasim

Read below articlehttp://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mahesh/ReadWriteXMLTutMellli2111282005041517AM/ReadWriteXMLTutMellli21.aspx[^]http://www.dotnetperls.com/xmlwriter[^]

METRO UI applications

29 Nov 2012 by Krunal Rohit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)[^]http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-IN?query=metro&ac=8[^]

BootMetro HowTo needed

1 Feb 2013 by Marco Bertschi

Does anyone know a good tutorial about BootMetro[^] which he can recommend?It doesn't has to be a bloody beginners` tutorial, I already have ASP.Net, JavaScript and CSS knowledge. But somehow it is messing up the formatting when I use it on my project.Thanks in advanceMarco Bertschi

Launching a desktop program with metro app?

12 Feb 2013 by CdnSecurityEngineer

Microsoft is really moving away from allowing 1 app to launch another app, there are many security vulnerabilities associated with such a technology, the biggest one being the command injection vulnerability. Microsoft's solution to this problem was to use what is known as the launcher, the...

Convert iphone code to c# to upload a file

6 Mar 2013 by Maciej Los

You don't need to convert anything...See this: how to download a file from internet[^]. It should works with metro application.BTW: Thank you Sergey for your Great Job![EDIT]Downloading and Uploading means almost the same but in different direction ;)Start here: QuickStart:...

Serialization error when restoring state in Windows Store App

24 May 2013 by Laurence1234

Hello all,When attempting to serialize my application data, in a Windows Store App I get the following error:{"Type 'MyObject' with data contract name '' is not expected. Consider using a DataContractResolver or add any types not known statically to the list of known types - for example,...

Difference between writing XAML in Metro Apps and standard desktop applications

23 Jul 2013 by Yvan Rodrigues

AS far as the differences go, I have used this guide[^] in the past.Also when searching for Metro/Windows RT framework-related stuff, often the term Windows Store app yields good results. The fact that they chose to use the term Windows Store to describe a type of application is idiotic, as...

Back Button C# Windows Store App

28 Aug 2013 by ridoy

Have a look at these:Navigator Back button throw exception with windows store app[^]Windows 8 App. Back Button not working[^]

application

How to know if you touch with two fingers in Windows 8 Metro App ?

16 Oct 2013 by Simon_Whale

A Quick Google search gave me thisHandling Two, Three, Four Fingers Swipe Gestures in WinRT App[^]

How to know if you touch with two fingers in Windows 8 Metro App ?

17 Dec 2013 by Bilaal John S

I think this age will help youhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh761498.aspx[^]Thanks, Sarath s

how to get Unique id to identify device

14 Jan 2014 by hitech_s

Hi,I am working with metro apps. In that i need to send toast notifications to the app. In order to send only one toast notification for the device i need to have only one channel uri per device. But below mentioned function is returning different guid's if hardware changes. private...

How Do I Upgrade The The Application From Older Version Then It Appears Window That Asks To Uninstall If An Older Version?

application

How to Fail Your Brand New Windows Phone Application

25 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application

30 May 2014 by RDBurmon

Very good blogStarting the Package and Deployment Wizard[^][Edit member="Tadit"]Link text added to reflect the Article/QA title.[/Edit]

BackgroundDownloader for win8.1 not working

24 Jun 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

This is not a valid URL. Valid URL should start with the URI Scheme "http://" or perhaps "https://". You domain should be known to the DNS, prescribed in the DNS data.Please see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme[^],http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS[^].—SA

Is there any free controls for winform metro style UI

14 Jul 2014 by rojaldearintok

this is what you are looking for, but no listview, that's what i'm lookinghttps://github.com/viperneo/winforms-modernui[^]

.NET

WinForms

Why I can't see the stack of my app in the crash dump?

25 Sep 2014 by SteveDaveBR

I am not sure if I'm having the wrong expectation in regards to analyze a crash dump in Visual Studio 2013. I'm trying to learn about crashdump analysis; so I want to see if I can make an app crash and analyze the crashdump. So, I create a Metro app with one button. I press the button...

crash

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

8 Jan 2015 by User 271009

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

Why I’m a Happy Windows Phone Developer

26 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Why I am a happy Windows Phone developer

Dynamically Formatting Phone Field with JavaScript

30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk

How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Horizontal pages layout in DocumentViewer.

27 Sep 2011 by Ubloobok

Good day.I have the task to create a template for DocumentViewer, which candisplay the FixedDocument Pages in horizontal layout, not a landscape.Default template displayed like this:Page |Page | ScrollPage |I want to display it like in the Metro UI Style for...

WPF

5 Dec 2011 by Elman90

Hello, I like to ask if there are any books or any other information source to learn about the new Metro application style of Windows 8, (preferabily still standing on xaml c#)Thanks in advance

5 Dec 2011 by #realJSOP

Go here [^]

How to get LCID for a Metro App ?

16 Jan 2012 by hunglh01011

I have to write an application in specific language base on its computer locale. But I have no idea how to get LCID or system locale in sandbox environment.In desktop app, I use this to get info, Does Metro have something similar to this ? Any idea ?WqlObjectQuery objectQuery = new...

Does WinRT support to get BIOS information

2 Feb 2012 by Phan Tien Dung

In Metro apps, WinRT has namespace Windows.Devices.Enumeration which has DeviceInformation class to get information from many devices of the computer. I wonder if WinRT supports to get BIOS information...Please help me to figure this question ???

SQLITE Delete in metro apps

28 Feb 2012 by abhishek.singh.valeteck

Hi,How can i use delete in metro apps using sqlite wrapper.(http://sqlwinrt.codeplex.com/[^])Though i am able to insert and select data using sqlite.My code for delete is as follows:-try{ var db = new SQLite.Database("FavDB1.test"); // creates the database file in the...

Under the Hood Part 2: C++ WinRT Component DLL & C# Metro Application

8 Mar 2012 by kishore Gaddam

C++ WinRT component DLL and C# Metro application

C++

Windows 8 Metro Application cannot connect outside Domain

12 Mar 2012 by Phan Tien Dung

In Windows 8 Metro Application, when creating Metro App, the App cannot connect to internet outside of the intranet Domain. Though package.appxmanifest file has all needed information for the app to connect to internet.I think Windows 8 metro app cannot recognize the proxy, is that...

Carousel view in C#/XAML Metro app

13 Mar 2012 by prashanth_mp

Hi can anybody give some sample or guidance on how to make a carousel view in xaml and c#(metro app)? i'm not getting any 3-D api reference. please help.Thanks and regards,Prashanth

30 Mar 2012 by siva varri

Could you please help me, I gave input as DispalyName (eg:(GMT-06:00) Central America) then i want to get current date and time .

30 Mar 2012 by siva varri

This is works on .net 4.0, In TimeZoneInfo class doesn't have a FindSytemTimeZone method in metro style apps. So how to do this in metro style apps...string ZoneId = "Central America";DateTime localtime = DateTime.Now;TimeZoneInfo timeZoneInfo =...

How to limit the Zoom Out/In size in metro style app

23 Apr 2012 by kamaraj sp

I have developed the sample application to manipulate the image.When I am dragging/zooming the image more, the image going out of the screen.How to I limit that?Thanks in advance..

WPF

Countdown timer for metro App

4 May 2012 by MohammadAli SJ

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...

VS2012

Countdown timer for metro App

4 May 2012 by Darshan.Pa

from references you need to add reference from solition explorer.u can add timer referece from the diolog shown.and then use Timer class it has so many properties.

VS2012

how to get navbar in windows 8 metro applications

5 Jun 2012 by Windows8Fresher

Hi,Iam windows8 metro apps fresher.And Iam trying to get navbar in metro application,but not working.Can anyone pls give me a sample code to get navbar in Grid Application. Thanks in advance.

Windows Events going with Metro UI

10 Jun 2012 by gnikolaropoulos

Windows events in Metro UI.

Drawing in metro style application

26 Jun 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

[In response to follow-up discussion:]So, are you saying you could not find appropriate articles in MSDN? First, how about other than MSDN? What's wrong about this one:http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/65fc13/drawing-features-in-windows-8-metro-style-apps/[^]?As to MSDN, please...

drawing

Windows 8 Metro, change wallpaper in JS or C#

26 Jun 2012 by AvivaPhong

Hi everyoneI try to build a simple windows 8 Metro Style application in JS and. I wonder if I can select a picture from an images gallery and put it as wallpaper on my desktop . I already checked few answers but its not working on Windows 8. Any code will HelpThanks

JScript.NET

how to get navbar in windows 8 metro applications

27 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

It's called App bar not navbarHere is sample for how to use app barXAML AppBar control sample[^]

Windows 8 Metro Application cannot connect outside Domain

27 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Proposed Answer proxy settings for metro apps [^]Windows 8 Apps not using proxy[^]

Does WinRT support to get BIOS information

27 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Example in JavaScript - MSDN[^]

saving canvas as image in metro style app with XAML/C#

28 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Hi, I am developing a paint like application in metro style with XAML/C# . 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...

saving canvas as image in metro style app with XAML/C#

28 Jun 2012 by Jαved

Hi,You can use the msToBlob property of the canvas:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465734.aspx[^]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465735.aspx[^]Than you can convert that blog to a stream and save it. Link[^]

saving canvas as image in metro style app with XAML/C#

28 Jun 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Thanks Jαved, but I want the solution for XAML/C# canvas element not for HTML5/JS canvas.

How to put bookmark onto slider while timeline marking in c#/xaml metro app

22 Jul 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Hi, I have checked this[^] sample. It shows me TimeLineMarker API. Now when I press button "Add Marker" at that time markers are added and text block shows the markers, on which time it was added. Now I want to display those markers onto Slider control in the form of any sign like any shape or...

22 Jul 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

use callisto [^] controls

24 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

You must see this post How to Find Date and Time by Time Zone using c#It's a very nice implementation! Works in all type of .NET projects.Hope it helps.

1 Aug 2012 by Christian Amado

You can see this Metro App bookEnjoy!

how to launch a desktop app from a metro app

3 Aug 2012 by Hellowlf

how to launch a desktop app from a metro app

how to launch a desktop app from a metro app

4 Aug 2012 by Caleb McElrath

As mentioned here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/14e2be68-ef86-4480-a3fd-6ddf7ec7d1f1[^]A Metro app is "sandboxed" which, among various other security mechanisms, aims to prevent launching desktop executables.

How to get list of files in metro style app

4 Aug 2012 by aquant

>Why guys from Microsoft change all upside down after each .net edition? I have tried to do few simples things in new 'metro style' xaml but nothing is simple today. For example I needed to scan a hard disk drive to get list of files. This is very simple task isn't it?But please tell me why...

How to get list of files in metro style app

4 Aug 2012 by Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman

You cannot use storagefolder for unknown folders. You have to use filepicker.Check this,http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj150596.aspx[^]

How to get list of files in metro style app

4 Aug 2012 by Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman

For your updated question...you have to useIn case u want folders, thenStorageFolder musicFolder = await KnownFolders.MusicLibrary;If you want file listIReadOnlyList fileList = await KnownFolders.MusicLibrary.GetFilesAsync();

getting “Exception from HRESULT: 0xC00DABE0” in MediaCapture sample of C#/XAML metro app

8 Aug 2012 by Farhan Ghumra

Finally got the solution myself, I changed this line:await m_mediaCaptureMgr.InitializeAsync();to this:await m_mediaCaptureMgr.InitializeAsync(settings);

Newsletter - Filter out Metro articles?

14 Aug 2012 by Paul_Williams

Hi,I currently do not have much interest in reading articles, tips etc about Metro apps. Is there an easy way to filter these out from the weekly newsletter?e.g. !Metro in the 'Newsletter topics' filter would be much simpler than listing all the possible topics I would be interested...

AForge.Net in Metro apps

28 Aug 2012 by Member 7915006

How to implement AForge.Net/ Webcam motion detection in Windows 8 metro apps?

Equivalent of ThreadPool.RegisterWaitForSingleObject in metro style app

30 Aug 2012 by aajeesh

Is there is any equivalent of ThreadPool.RegisterWaitForSingleObject in metro style app development? It is for implementing timeout functionality in an asynchronous operation as in the example here. Thanks in advance.

Get web page contents in Metro style app

31 Aug 2012 by summerrain_90

im creating a metro style app and i need to get response from internet resource in win form app: // Create the web request HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://abc.com/") as HttpWebRequest;// Get response using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse()...

Get web page contents in Metro style app

5 Sep 2012 by aajeesh

Hope this helps..http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.begingetrequeststream.aspx[^]

Save Canvas as image in WINRT using C#

19 Sep 2012 by Vivek Deshmukh

Hi ,I have one canvas in my application. I am drawing on this. I need to save this canvas as image file using c#.Can you please guide me for this ?

Save Canvas as image in WINRT using C#

19 Sep 2012 by Al Moje

Hi,Try to see my article if could help...Display/Store and Retrieve Image Data from Database to Gridview, and also on Mouse OverPlease vote if could help...Regards,

convert from PDF to Bimap

28 Sep 2012 by yulishein

In above comment, there was some mistakes. Sorry!!!I read PDF content as byte[] and then I use above method. It doesn’t work.But for the image (png, bmp, jpeg) byet[], it works properlyWhy it doesn’t work for PDF byte[]....

Bitmap

PDF

convert from PDF to Bimap

28 Sep 2012 by fjdiewornncalwe

As Richard already noted, A PDF file is not a simple byte array. This[^] article may shed some light on how you need to pursue this.

Bitmap

PDF

Life Organizer application

1 Oct 2012 by Tim Corey

A smart task list that is as portable and compact as the Ultrabook it is designed to run on.

Will my description be private?

2 Oct 2012 by Richard MacCutchan

You should post this question in the Article Writing[^] forum, so the administrators can help you.

log event in Event viewer for metro apps

5 Oct 2012 by SUSHIL AURADKAR

HI,For my metro app, I want to log an event in event viewer. It is like in the button click event I want to throw an error and this error has to be logged in event viewer..As the "eventlog" class is not available in windows 8.., how should I do it?? can I get the code for that.

How to access MySQL database from Windows 8 app

5 Oct 2012 by pepethepepe

Hello,Just need to know how to access MySQL database from Windows Store App built in HTML/JAVASCRIPT. Any help in C#/XAML would be appreciable too.

How to access MySQL database from Windows 8 app

5 Oct 2012 by CPallini

Do you mean a local MySQL database ?You may find an interesting discussion here: "SQL Database support in Metro Style App?"[^].

How can I Make Variable Size of Tiles in win8 metro style

7 Oct 2012 by aounali

Hello there , Im developing win8 metro style app , i got stuked at one point since last 1 week, I want variable size tiles in my app but dont knw whats the problem in my code please help.

How to record video in low FPS

8 Oct 2012 by Vivek Deshmukh

Hello Team,We need to record video in low frame rate (very Slow motion ) and play it in normal mode.Could you please suggest any way for this ?Any help will be grateful.Thanks in Advance.

C#4.0

How to record video in low FPS

8 Oct 2012 by E.F. Nijboer

Do you mean time-lapse? Simply make snapshots on a predefined interval and create an video of all these snapshot images. Good luck!

C#4.0

How can I Make Variable Size of Tiles in win8 metro style

9 Oct 2012 by Mike DiGiovanni

If I understand what you are trying to ask for. You are going to need a tiny bit of code beyond your XAML.The big key is that you need to derive from GridView and override PrepareContainerForItemOverrideI've attached two great links for handling this as the below sources.Sources:...

How to save Canvas as image in C# winrt

14 Oct 2012 by Vivek Deshmukh

Hello Team,I have searched a lot on this but not getting any.Can anyone please guide me how to save canvas as Image in Windows store app using C#.I have canvas with child controls on it as lines and image.If this is not possible then any alternate way or workaround for this...

How to save Canvas as image in C# winrt

15 Oct 2012 by fjdiewornncalwe

Lots of results[^]. Google is your friend, visit him often.

How to get feedback from MediaCapture API in Windows 8

15 Oct 2012 by yccheok

I'm trying to do face tracking apps in Windows 8 app. And I aware that in order to access the camera stream, I have to use MediaCapture.AddEffectAsync() which has to be done incorporate with C++ as shown in http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Media-Capture-Sample-adf87622.Now I'm able...

Windows::Storage::ApplicationD...

15 Oct 2012 by yccheok

My C++ code, which is part of Media Foundation Transform tend to able to run in Windows Store App (Metro)I modify the C++ GrayscaleTransform to include the following code.However, my C++ code fails to locate namespace Windows::Storage.LPCWSTR zPath =...

16 Oct 2012 by dipanshu tyagi

Hi all,I want a help from everyone,that how i can put login,password page on charm settings of windows 8Pls help me in finding out the solution asap..

Windows 8 Metro, change wallpaper in JS or C#

17 Oct 2012 by pavel177

Hi. My name is Pavel.You did not find the code of the program?

JScript.NET