It’s been a while, but the question is not fully answered, so let me share my little research. Depechie is mostly right, but he provided only a link and wasn’t really sure. Yes, this unexpected change is intentional. We shouldn’t use CultureInfo anymore as it contains legacy codes and Microsoft want us to use Windows.Globalization … Read more
Interesting question! 🙂 I recently created a SwipeableSplitView which extends the SplitView control to enable a swipe from left edge gesture when the DisplayMode is set to Overlay (as I don’t see the point to have it in other modes, but feel free to extend it whenever needed). All I am doing is, inside the … Read more
TLDR A custom (templated) control allows an app to use the Template property to replace the control’s internal element tree. If you don’t need/want your control to have that re-templating feature, then use a UserControl as it’s easier. UserControl A UserControl is a lot easier to create with Visual Studio or Blend giving you a … Read more
My process above still works, but it simply gets around a race condition issue, where Windows Update (yes, oddly enough) is in charge of wiping out “staged packages.” According to Microsoft, the “other fix” – and I still consider this issue to be a bug – is: Cause of the problem: Windows Update (WU) downloads … Read more
Call Measure() then Arrange() and then ActualWidth and ActualHeight will be updated.
KnownFolders doesn’t work on WP8 for 3rd party apps. In terms of access on WP8 here’s what’s available: Contacts: Read access available since WP7.5, write-access available via WP8 ContactStore. Appointments: Read-access available since WP7.5. In WP8 you can add individual appointments after user confirmation via the SaveAppointmentTask. Photos: Read access to all folders available since … Read more
In the Consumer Preview, the correct URL format has apparently changed to ms-appx:/Images/800×600/BackgroundTile.bmp
This capability is not listed in the “designer” of Package.appxmanifest, you have to add it manually via code. Go to Solution Explorer and right-click Package.appxmanifest. Select View Code. In the code view update the Package element to contain the following: <Package … xmlns:rescap=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/foundation/windows10/restrictedcapabilities” IgnorableNamespaces=”uap mp rescap”> Do not duplicate the IgnorableNamespaces attribute, just append rescap … Read more
Try wrapping your DataTemplate inside a UserControl like this – <DataTemplate> <UserControl> <Grid> <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> … </Grid> </UserControl> </DataTemplate> Looks like any Control that has got a Content property will work. That’s why UserControl works, so does a ContentControl. So if you replace the UserControl with a ContentControl and give it an empty Style. It should … Read more
Example of how to scale and crop taken from here: async private void BitmapTransformTest() { // hard coded image location string filePath = “C:\\Users\\Public\\Pictures\\Sample Pictures\\fantasy-dragons-wallpaper.jpg”; StorageFile file = await StorageFile.GetFileFromPathAsync(filePath); if (file == null) return; // create a stream from the file and decode the image var fileStream = await file.OpenAsync(Windows.Storage.FileAccessMode.Read); BitmapDecoder decoder = await … Read more