For 720p (1280×720) and WXGA (1280×768): Large Tile: 691 x 336 (yes, you’re not reading it wrong, there’s a extra pixel on the width) Medium Tile: 336 x 336 Small Tile: 159 x 159 For WVGA (480×800): Large Tile: 430 x 210 Medium Tile: 210 x 210 Small Tile: 100 x 100 For IconicTemplate (All … Read more
If you’re happy to re-use business logic and write device specific user interfaces (more work, but better user experience on each device) you could consider the various Mono frameworks. Writing the core business logic as a class library, then writing specific user interfaces using MonoTouch, MonoDroid and Windows using .NET Framework you’ll have a cross … Read more
If you want to read a file from your project you can for example do it like this: string fileContent; StorageFile file = await StorageFile.GetFileFromApplicationUriAsync(new Uri(@”ms-appx:///example.txt”)); using (StreamReader sRead = new StreamReader(await file.OpenStreamForReadAsync())) fileContent = await sRead.ReadToEndAsync(); Also please ensure that you have set the Build Action of your file as Content (it should be … Read more
The implementation of the two methods are indeed different on Windows Phone. WebUtility.HtmlDecode: public static void HtmlDecode(string value, TextWriter output) { if (value != null) { if (output == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException(“output”); } if (!StringRequiresHtmlDecoding(value)) { output.Write(value); } else { int length = value.Length; for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) … Read more
This functionality isn’t available for 3rd party apps on Windows Phone 8. What exactly are you trying to do? You can pass along data using WP8’s app2app functionality (custom protocols for plain text and file extensions for file data). If you’re interested in seeing this functionality in future WP versions please open up a new … Read more
Okay after hours of researching I came to the point that I should restart from draft. I simulate a Html form upload with following C# code: private async Task<string> UploadImage(StorageFile file) { HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); client.BaseAddress = new Uri(“http://your.url.com/”); MultipartFormDataContent form = new MultipartFormDataContent(); HttpContent content = new StringContent(“fileToUpload”); form.Add(content, “fileToUpload”); var stream … Read more
I finally solved it! It took me nearly two days to find the solution and it is not documented anywhere sothat I would like to share my results with you: // Open official Facebook app for sharing await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri(“fb:post?text=foo”)); I think this is a very cool feature and reminds users of how it works … Read more
I add all that I found below. Please add if you know any more: STOCK APPS http:[URL] Launches the web browser and navigates to the specified URL. mailto:[email address] Launches the email app and creates a new message with the specified email address on the To line. Note that the email is not sent until … Read more
I am also currently working on a Windows Phone 8 project and here is how I am posting to a server. Windows Phone 8 sort of has limited access to the full .NET capabilities and most guide I read say you need to be using the async versions of all the functions. // server to … Read more