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Introduction to Windows Metro Style

by Christian Amado

A brief introduction to Metro Style App Development

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How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Development: Windows 10 UWP Wireless Label/Receipt Printer demo

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Windows 10 UWP wireless label/receipt printer demo

Time to change from a Smart Phone to a Smart PC

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Metro-design

Async Await Synchronous confusion - The Horror

6 Nov 2020 by Rob Philpott

I AM BEING DRIVEN MAD BY THIS :(So I'm trying to write a Metro App. Leaving aside the tiresome fact that half the framework has been ripped out, there is one thing which I just can't get right.I want to get all the files in a folder (recursively actually but that bit doesn't matter) and...

How to access mahapps aplication codes؟

14 Sep 2018 by phil.o

The homepage of the product is a good starting point: mahapps.metro[^] On this page, you can find a "it's open source" block where they clearly state that their source code is hosted on Github: Github - MahApps/MahApps.Metro[^]

How to access mahapps aplication codes؟

14 Sep 2018 by amir fatemi

How to access mahapps aplication codes؟ What I have tried: How to access mahapps aplication codes؟

Introduction to Windows Metro Style

23 Aug 2018 by Christian Amado

A brief introduction to Metro Style App Development

Dynamically Formatting Phone Field with JavaScript

30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk

How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Development: Windows 10 UWP Wireless Label/Receipt Printer demo

17 Aug 2016 by hjgode

Windows 10 UWP wireless label/receipt printer demo

Time to change from a Smart Phone to a Smart PC

18 May 2016 by Chris Boss

While many companies have been trying to jump onto the Smart Phone bandwagon over the years, Windows devices seem to have had a troubled path there.

Xamarin Studio (on Mac) Vs Visual Studio (Windows) for Xamarin Forms

8 Apr 2016 by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Now than Xamarin Community is free for everyone, we don’t require a Xamarin professional license to build Xamarin applications using Visual Studio However some of [...]

Your First Windows Phone 7 App is Just a Few Keystrokes Away

21 Nov 2015 by Vijay Rajanna

Your first Windows Phone 7 app is just a few keystrokes away

Textbox value on stackpanel being changed on scroll windows rt

21 Sep 2015 by rjrohit2303

Hi, I am working on an windows8 application, in which I have a grid to show list of items. Each row has a textbox to take some input, when I enter any value on one of the textbox in a row and then scroll down then other rows (scrolling up from bottom) automatically has this same value set in...

can't change background color of metro controls

12 Sep 2015 by jumper77

Ok... so I'm dumb :) All I had to do was set "UseCustomBackColor" to TRUE. Then I could change the background color. I'm just telling this in case someone is just getting started like me :)

can't change background color of metro controls

12 Sep 2015 by jumper77

I'm using VS 2015 and I just put Metro controls in my Winform project. The problem I'm having is that I can't change the background color of any Metro control in the tool box. Maybe it's by design?Any ideas? thanks

How to make a playlist for Win 8.1 metro app?

28 Aug 2015 by Shaun101640

Hello everyone, I am try to make a Win 8.1 Music Player Metro App. The app must have a playlist that shows all the songs in a ListBox. When I try to load a playlist a UnhandledException is thrown. The same with when I try to add a song to the playlist. Please I really need help.The code I...

Why I’m a Happy Windows Phone Developer

26 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Why I am a happy Windows Phone developer

Why It’s Sad To Be A Windows Phone Developer

25 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Why it is sad to be a Windows Phone developer

Building a Windows Phone App

6 Aug 2015 by matthewproctor

How to build a Windows Phone app

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

6 Aug 2015 by matthewproctor

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

JavaScript, the Back Button, and Windows Phone 8 Development

2 May 2015 by Jamie Munro

JavaScript, the Back button, and Windows Phone 8 development

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

21 Apr 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

MetroFramework Tab Control text Glitch

12 Apr 2015 by Member 11561844

I Place One MetroTabControl On my form. And I Have One Tab Name "Page One" When I Am viewing that page, I place another MetroTabControl on the Page One Tab. But The new MetroTabControl Has A White Screening Over the text, making it impossible to read. I did not edit any properties.

Building PlanetFall, a LunarLander-inspired game for Windows Phone 8

1 Feb 2015 by matthewproctor

Lunar Lander was an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc.

WCF rest for universal apps, complex types

26 Jan 2015 by MrDeej

Just found it. [WebInvoke(Method ="POST", UriTemplate = "/nySmerteEntitet/", RequestFormat =WebMessageFormat.Json, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json,BodyStyle=WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare)] [OperationContract] _02_DataClasser.SmerteEntitet...

WCF rest for universal apps, complex types

26 Jan 2015 by MrDeej

Hello!I have begun the conversion from Windows 8.1 to Universal apps for some off my application.I have noticed that MS does not support WCF soap on Windows Phone, and therefore i have converted mye Services to REST.I have been successfull in implementing REST on a operationcontract with...

Building a Windows Phone App

20 Jan 2015 by matthewproctor

How to build a Windows Phone app

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

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

8 Jan 2015 by User 271009

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

Metro Style Lightweight Image Processing

31 Dec 2014 by David_Ke

Sensor and image are two amazing things which interests programmer most in slate.

image-processing

custom dialog Mahapps ShowMetroDialogAsync with close button

17 Nov 2014 by payjo

I create Mahapps custom dialog message with this code. the problem is the dialog form not show close button so cant close it. how to show close button ? public async void button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { Button btn = (Button) sender; ...

how to remove example text in example css class

16 Nov 2014 by Developer Rahul Sharma

not work Member 10454138.m also remove the content:"example" from metro .example:before but not work Link on this http://metroui.org.ua/one-page-example.html[^]please give the solution

how to remove example text in example css class

13 Nov 2014 by Developer Rahul Sharma

how to remove the example text in this box .open the link [Link removed]and check the my question clear .please help me

Calling Web Service from Windows Phone 8 App

22 Oct 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to call web service from Windows Phone 8 app

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...

Windows Phone 8: Print Demo for Bluetooth Label/Receipt Printers

17 Sep 2014 by hjgode

Description of my btPrint demo app to print demo files to portable bluetooth label/receipt printers

How to Verify Phone Numbers using Twilio and Parse

15 Sep 2014 by Saleh Hamadeh

This post discusses how to verify phone numbers using Twilio and Parse

Programmatically Changing UI Language in Windows Phone

14 Sep 2014 by BC3Tech

Let’s have a look at some tweaks to the default phone project created for Windows Phone 8.0 (and 8.1 Silverlight)

XAML : Load different theme-layout based on the number of controls must to be displayed

4 Sep 2014 by Kinna-10626331

I am new with WPF and C#,I want to load templates dynamically . The themes must be selected based on the number of controls that should be necessary to display (some times could be 4,other 10,so the layout changes depending on this ).I have been searching about data template selector...

Windows Phone 8, Family Safety, and Your Kids

22 Aug 2014 by BC3Tech

Windows Phone 8, Family Safety, and your kids

MetroFramework TextBox Password Char

24 Jul 2014 by Praveen Dselva

Use PasswordChar property, this is a MetroTextBox , it's default value is '\0'

MetroFramework TextBox Password Char

20 Jul 2014 by Gianmarco V.

Hello, i am using http://thielj.github.io/MetroFramework/[]In The textbox control there is not the UsePasswordChar for hide passwords.How i can resolve the problem?Cordially

Localizing Your App Name and Tile on Windows Phone 8

14 Jul 2014 by BC3Tech

How to localize your app name and tile on Windows Phone 8

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[^]

Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio

29 Jun 2014 by saramgsilva

This article aims to present the Microsoft App Studio for creating applications for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1. A few months ago Microsoft released Windows Phone App Studio Beta, a service that allows any person without programming skills … Continue reading →

OCD Windows Phone photogs, Beware

24 Jun 2014 by BC3Tech

OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware

BackgroundDownloader for win8.1 not working

24 Jun 2014 by mayankkarki

I have a url for a file something like "http://my.domai.com/myfile.doc" and if I open this in browser, a popup opens to enter username and password, after that I can view or download file. Now I have to do this download in my win 8.1 app. I used code below:BackgroundDownloader...

BackgroundWorker

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

BackgroundWorker

Updating App Tile using Background Agent in Windows Phone 8 App

2 Jun 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to update app tile using background agent in Windows Phone 8 app

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

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]

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

30 May 2014 by ykrishnarao

I am developed an metro application in c# the application is deployed and When installing new version if an older version is present under the targeted machine it will arise an error window appears, Change to window that asks to uninstall old version (ok/cancel) then installs the new version,...

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

30 May 2014 by Abhishek Pant

have a look on the links-Setup Project - Install / Upgrade sequence[^]Uninstall a Previous Application Installation When Upgrading an Application with Setups Created in VS.NET - Part 2[^]

Using Local Database in Windows Phone Apps

12 May 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to create a Local Database for storing data of our Windows Phone app

How do I disable individual items in gridview in c# metro app?

8 May 2014 by Vineeth.B

Hi,I am using gridview control and i have populated a list of images by modifying the itemtemplate of gridview. Now i need to enable/disable some of the items in the list.Are there any solutions for doing this???Thanks.

Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone App

4 May 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone App

How to Fail Your Brand New Windows Phone Application

25 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application

Metro Style using visual studio 2010

22 Apr 2014 by IvelliosColin

Try Elysium SDK[^].

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development

21 Apr 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

I started developing application for the Windows Phone platform a few months ago. There are a lot of things i learned along the way and i want to share all that with you through a series of blog posts. In the current post, we will focus on the basic and will develop a very simple […]

Working With Local Storage in Windows Phone App

17 Apr 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

Working With Local Storage in Windows Phone App

what is the common framework to develop windows phone and windows 8 app

14 Apr 2014 by Peter Leow

Refer: Maximize code reuse between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8[^]

what is the common framework to develop windows phone and windows 8 app

14 Apr 2014 by Naz_Firdouse

if you are looking to build apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows phone 8.1, you can use universal apps template.Have a look at ithttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn609832.aspx[^]

what is the common framework to develop windows phone and windows 8 app

14 Apr 2014 by hitech_s

do anyone have idea on what is the common framework to develop windows phone and windows 8 apps. designing the forms and code at one place and will be used by the both appsthanks.

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

Use Converters in your Windows Phone Apps

12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app.

3 Easy Ways to Store Data Locally in a Windows Phone App

12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

Our applications – no matter whether games, productivity tools or business software – are all about data.

Performing Page Navigation in Windows Phone Apps

6 Apr 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to perform page navigation in Windows Phone apps

Keep Collections to the List in MVVM Prism

4 Mar 2014 by hack.luminence

currently im having troubles in keeping the collections in the list in the mvvm, every time that i navigate away and return to a page, the list keeps getting empty. how am i going to deal with this? can someone help me with this? The Model: I have not implemented the others yet because i cant...

How to Solve Issues of Internet Not Working with Windows Phone 8 Emulator

4 Mar 2014 by RaviRanjanKr

This blog will help you to solve the issues while connecting Internet with Windows Phone 8 emulator during deployment process.

Maintaining the collection in a List/ObservableCollection

3 Mar 2014 by hack.luminence

i have been successfully adding an item to list in a MVVM, and now my problem is maintaining the list in the view model. Every time i navigate to a page or go back to a page and return to that listview, the list resets. how will i able to achieve that? i am currently using the prism to build the...

How to format texts of TextBlock using xaml in Windows Phone

27 Feb 2014 by RaviRanjanKr

This blog help you to learn how to format texts of TextBlock control in Windows Phone.

How to bind windows8.1 searchbox in MVVM

25 Feb 2014 by CGN007

Hi All,How to bind windows8.1 serachbox in MVVM.Thanks in advance,CGN

Managed enum to unmanaged enum metro apps

23 Feb 2014 by BillWoodruff

Assuming the variable 'man is of Type MANAGED, and is assigned, this code will work:MANAGED man = MANAGED.TYPE1;UNMANAGED un = (UNMANAGED)((int)man);An obvious bug is your use of the word 'class here: enum class MANAGED.This will work:MANAGED man = MANAGED.TYPE1;UNMANAGED un =...

Managed enum to unmanaged enum metro apps

23 Feb 2014 by Raul Iloc

Because your using MANAGED enum it will not be converted automatically to int so you should have: int temp = (int)man; //But "man" must be initialized! UNMANAGED unman = (UNMANAGED)temp;

Managed enum to unmanaged enum metro apps

23 Feb 2014 by Vineeth.B

Hi,I have a doubt.I need to convert managed enum to unmanaged enum.enum class MANAGED{ TYPE1, TYPE2}enum UNMANAGED{ TYPE1, TYPE2}I did the fillowing codeUNMANAGED unman = (UNMANAGED)((int)man);But i'm getting undefined value in the variable...

Displaying images with respect to the screen resolutions

17 Feb 2014 by Krunal Rohit

See this link[^].From this, you can get Resolution of your Image. Now what you have to do is, once you get the particular resolution, put a check and within it write some logic to change the image.Hope this info will help you. Give it a try.Good Luck :)-KR

Displaying images with respect to the screen resolutions

17 Feb 2014 by hitech_s

In my windows 8 app we are using WCF service to fetch the data, in the app images are displaying with the image urls like "http://mysite.com/images/sample.png".In the xaml i am using image tag to display the image like this.

Detect filesystem changes in windows 8.1 app

10 Feb 2014 by LLLLGGGG

Hi,I need to write an app which controls my skydrive account. It is something really simple: I have some files in a directory and I need to upload them to my skydrive no matter if my app is running, suspended or terminated.I would like to give that directory the same control as Skydrive...

how to get Unique id to identify device

15 Jan 2014 by Ahmed Bensaid

Hello,You should use the device's mac address ;)

how to get Unique id to identify device

14 Jan 2014 by mopicus

I use ShortGuid implementation from http://www.singular.co.nz/blog/archive/2007/12/20/shortguid-a-shorter-and-url-friendly-guid-in-c-sharp.aspx

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 get the link of the uploaded file in Skydrive?

29 Dec 2013 by SubhamSoni123

How to get the skydrive link of the uploaded file

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

Is there any free controls for winform metro style UI

7 Nov 2013 by thatraja

From Google search, got this onehttp://windowsformsmetro.codeplex.com/[^]Browse SourceForge or Codeplex for more.

Is there any free controls for winform metro style UI

7 Nov 2013 by Somasundharam Arjunan

Is there any free controls for winform metro style UI?

Metro Paint

6 Nov 2013 by Farhan Ghumra

A Metro style app for basic drawing feature.

Drawing text using DirectX3d

28 Oct 2013 by Vineeth.B

Hi,I am trying to develop a metro application in c# to render text in 3d.I was able to render the text using SharpDX library.Here is how i rendered the text:1. I created a bitmap which contains the text to render2. Then rendered the bitmap as a texture in a 3d cube surfce.But...

Simple Metro Style Panorama Control for WPF

20 Oct 2013 by Sacha Barber

A simple Metro style Panorama control for WPF.

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 ?

15 Oct 2013 by Jeankininho

Hi, What I want is basically simple, I have a Button and want get the event when you touch(tap) with TWO fingers.I tried the Tapped, Pointer, Manipulation and Click events and nothing.If someone know, doesn't matter how complex can be. I Would appreciate.

How to record video in low FPS

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please check this link for Metrohttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/bg182883.aspx#two[^]Thanks,Bilaal

How to get Date and Time from specific TimeZone ?

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Here is a post that will help you.Please check this linkhttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/0cef93bf-3707-4e19-b1ec-73a1754f338c/how-to-get-datetime-form-specified-timezone-in-metro-style-apps[^]Thanks,Bilaal

How to get LCID for a Metro App ?

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please read thishttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/a70a6dcf-c62c-4dd9-9c79-74af109890b1/how-to-get-lcid-for-a-metro-app-[^]Thanks,Bilaal

Metro APP siple 2D animation in C#

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

// Here myRectangle is a Rectangle Xaml Page. // Create the transform TranslateTransform moveTransform = new TranslateTransform(); moveTransform.X = 0; moveTransform.Y = 0; myRectangle.RenderTransform =...

how to build a screen sharing app on metro like the remote sharing in the store.

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please check these linkshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enhancing-windows-8-for-multiple-monitors.aspx[^]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh758314.aspx[^]Thanks,Bilaal

Sharing on facebook and twitter from my metro app

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

I think this link will help you for Facebook connectivityhttp://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Integrate_Facebook_to_Your_Windows_Phone_Application[^]Thanks,Bilaal

Metro Style Apps Calendar

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

You can use Win Rt Toolkit for calendar control, chart controls etc.Please check this linkhttp://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/[^]Thanks,Bilaal

login page on charm in windows8

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please check this sample application http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/App-settings-sample-1f762f49[^]Thanks,Bilaal

Get web page contents in Metro style app

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

using System.Net;//Web RequestHttpWebRequest Imgrequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("web address");NetworkCredential credential = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domain");Imgrequest.Credentials = credential; //If authentication required for the web...

Save Canvas as image in WINRT using C#

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please check thisHow to save Canvas as image in C# winrt[^]Thanks,Bilaal

How to save Canvas as image in C# winrt

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please check this linkhttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/b99cdbc0-7147-4c7e-a4e0-28e6a30e1921/saving-canvas-as-image-in-metro-style-app[^]Thanks,Bilaal

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

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please check the information's from the below link.In common there are small and wide sized tiles.http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/87cde4b9-b338-4f56-a866-95c64309542b/about-creation-of-tiles-for-windows-8-using-metro-style-apps[^]Thanks,Bilaal

Solution Explorer of visual studio 2012 can't identify images

18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S

Please try this code in your xaml set Image source as Source="Assets\SplashScreen.png"Thanks,Bilaal