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This is the first post as part of a blog series about the integration of using SharePoint 2013 as a datasource for windows 8 apps. Part 1: Introduction, Background and Considerations (this post) Part 2: Platform choice, using the right API and data access Part 3: Search Part 4: Authentication Introduction...
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I wanted to run my app an my VM, but got the above error… A quick search on google lead me to this thread on DevCenter: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/3fc1f3cf-2d8b-4dee-a348-40d0bf2c3c66/ The answer there is spot on! I chose option 1, setting my debug option to...
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I found this wonderful solution for installing Windows 8 on a VHD for dual-boot using the imagex tool. You can read about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2012/08/18/how-to-create-windows-8-vhd-for-boot-to-vhd-using-simple-easy-to-follow-steps.aspx Problem I experienced now was...
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I am still working on my app In the Pocket , but my focus is now on getting my paid version out. The paid version of In The Pocket (release 1) will add the following features to In The Pocket Free: Being able to save articles locally (implemented using DiffBot service ) Queuing added items even when...
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Alright… so my app is almost finished and I want to install it for real on my Surface tablet. How do I do that? Is it possible? Yes it is. NB: People, seems like I was not entirely accurate. Before you can install the package this way, you need a developer license for your Win RT device. You can get...
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My friend Pascal ( http://www.pazquality.com/ ) is also working on a windows 8 application. He was having trouble with getting the Live tiles to work so I volunteered to find out how to cycle to a couple of tiles and keep cycling between them. Well, it's surprisingly simple… Here's the code that...
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I wanted to be able to add items to GetPocket.com via my app. To do this in the nicest way possible, it would be awesome to be able to share urls from other apps to my app. I saw that you can add an OnShareTargetActivated method to your app.xaml.cs where you can capture the ShareOperation. It looks like...
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A collegue of mine followed this blogpost ( http://www.jfarrell.net/2012/11/caliburn-from-windows-8-apps.html ) to implement Caliburn.Micro in the WinRT app… He stumbled upon a problem. The post seems to suggest that you should remove all content from your App.xaml, but then the reference to the resource...
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Here's what I found out the hard way. If you show web content in a WebView control and you want to use the AppBar in the same page (overlapping the WebView) than the AppBar isn't shown. This allegedly also happens to flyouts. Very annoying. Apparently it has to do with the internal drawing logic...
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My Microsoft Touch Mouse stopped scrolling in Visual Studio on my Windows 8 machine some time ago. Because this kills productivity, I wanted to fix the problem. After trying some things I found that the problem only occurred when I ran Visual Studio as Administrator . Searching a bit further I found...
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In my previous post I wanted my Visual Studio to ‘Run as Administrator’ on my Windows 8 machine. I only managed to get this working for the pinned taskbar icon and not for items in the jumplist or for items you open by double clicking them. The solution to check the box ‘Run as Administrator’ on the...
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Nice post of Steven Sinofsky on MSDN blogs about the history and future of Windows Explorer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx (edit 31-08-2011) And Martin Tirion of Microsoft Netherlands wrote about it a day later (in Dutch). http://blogs.microsoft.nl...