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How to execute Process commands (or similar) using a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App?

There are – limited – ways to achieve similar behavior. You could use LaunchUri to trigger other apps which registered for a certain URI-Scheme. This should work for your webbrowser scenario. More details here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.system.launcher.launchuriasync.aspx You could trigger another app and get results back from it using LaunchForResults. The called app has to support this. … Read more

How does Windows 8 Runtime (WinRT / Windows Store apps / Windows 10 Universal App) compare to Silverlight and WPF? [closed]

At the lowest level, WinRT is an object model defined on ABI level. It uses COM as a base (so every WinRT object implements IUnknown and does refcounting), and builds from there. It does add quite a lot of new concepts in comparison to COM of old, most of which come directly from .NET – … Read more

Windows Phone 8.1 Universal App terminates on navigating back from second page?

This is new to Windows Phone 8.1. If you create a new Hub Universal App using a VS2013 template, you’ll notice a class in Common folder called a NavigationHelper. This NavigationHelper gives you a hint how to properly react to back button press. So, if you don’t want to use the NavigationHelper, here’s how to … Read more

UWP Binding in Style Setter not working

As noted in the section Migration notes on the Setter.Value property page on MSDN, UWP/Windows Runtime does not support bindings in Style Setters. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight supported the ability to use a Binding expression to supply the Value for a Setter in a Style. The Windows Runtime doesn’t support a Binding … Read more

How to compare Color object and get closest Color in an Color[]?

Color distance is not a precisely defined thing. So here are three methods to measure it: One method that checks only the hues of the colors, ignoring both saturation and brightness One that only measures the direct distance in RGB space And one that weighs hue, saturation and brightness in some way. Obviously you may … Read more

UWP Enable local network loopback

For a line of business app use the checknetisolation.exe tool to grant the app a loopback exception. To enable loopback use this command: c:\>checknetisolation loopbackexempt -a -n=<package family name> To disable loopback use this command: c:\>checknetisolation loopbackexempt -d -n=<package family name> The package family name for a UWP app can be found in several places: … Read more

Windows 10 Universal App File/Directory Access

In UWP apps, you can only access the following files and folders: Directories which are declared in the manifest file (e.g. Documents, Pictures, Videos folder) Directories and files which the user manually selected with the FileOpenPicker or FolderPicker Files from the FutureAccessList or MostRecentlyUsedList Files which are opened with a file extension association or via … Read more

Suspending event not raising using WinRT

Suspending event won’t fire while you are debugging (but while running your App normal, it will fire just after you navigate away from the App) as it is said also at this blog: …you will wait forever for these to trigger, even though your app switches back and forth to the screen! The reason is … Read more