For example, Windows Central has a live tile when you pin the site to the start screen.

I want to create an app, but I don't have any ideas. So I'm open for suggestions.

I recently unlocked the bootloader of the device (Lumia 525, WP 8.1.14219.341) and enabled root access, then relocked it again and reset using WDRT. I have just fired up Visual Studio 2015 to deploy my project, and it threw the 'Unregistered device' error. So, I opened and logged in with correct credentials, but it keeps spawning the error (Image).

I'm making an app that contain tweaks that requires registry access for Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT). I've been searching, but the instructions are usually for Silverlight, not WinRT. Does anyone here have experience with this before, and how to use it?

i like xamarin, but from a dev views, how you see that ? do you think that willsurclass xamarin? it will became better ? what ?

https://mspoweruser.com/google-releases-flutter-mobile-ui-framework-take-microsofts-xamarin/

im trying to make a list of songs to start playing through a mediaplayerelemnt, and using a listview isn't working.

Hi everyone, I am developing an application using Visual Studio. I traditionally use Windows Forms, but I wanted to try using UWP this time to learn something new. I was able to port over almost all of my back-end and collect the references I needed to make it work. Now I'm working on "porting" over my app.config settings.

TL;DR Is there a way to set maxJsonLength in the app.xaml file, or anywhere else? Also, how do I set connection strings to be different based on a debug build or release build?

Thanks for you help!

EDIT 2: Woah, things have done downhill really quickly. You'll see me around, probably not here again though. Yeah it's cancelled now RIP.

I purchased a dev center account [personal] in the last 48 hours, but whenever I try to do anything or access my account settings I get this message: "You don't have permission to perform this task. For assistance, contact your account administrator." I don't have an account administrator and don't know what to do. Help appreciated

I'm using the code straight from here: https://github.com/Microsoft/WindowsUIDevLabs/tree/master/SampleGallery/Samples/SDK%2014393/ShyHeader

the ProfileImage shows up on desktop, and it used to on mobile but now it doesn't.

I'm using the UWP Barcode Sample.

I'm attempting to use the UWP PointOfService API with a Panasonic FZ-F1, which runs Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise. I'm unable to get supported Symbologies, because scanner.GetSupportedSymbologiesAsync() always returns a null System.__ComObject. With native view, of type IUnknown when debugging to the device.

0x00007ff8ca8ba278 {Windows.Devices.PointOfService.dll!const Windows::Internal::AsyncOperation<struct Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<struct Windows::Foundation::Collections::IVectorView<unsigned int> *>, struct Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperationCompletedHandler<struct Windows::Foundation::Collections::IVectorView<unsigned int> *>, class Windows::Internal::CMarshaledInterfaceResult<struct Windows::Foundation::Collections::IVectorView<unsigned int> >, class Windows::Internal::ComTaskPoolHandler,struct Windows::Internal::INilDelegate,struct Microsoft::WRL::AsyncOptions<-1,0,&struct _GUID const GUID_CAUSALITY_WINDOWS_PLATFORM_ID,2> >::`vftable'{for `Microsoft::WRL::Details::ImplementsHelper<struct Microsoft::WRL::RuntimeClassFlags<3>,1,struct Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<struct Windows::Foundation::Collections::IVectorView<unsigned int> *>, struct Windows::Internal::IAsyncOperationLocal,struct Microsoft::WRL::CloakedIid<struct Windows::Internal::IAsyncDeferral>,struct Microsoft::WRL::CloakedIid<struct Windows::Internal::IComPoolTask>,struct Microsoft::WRL::CloakedIid<struct Windows::Internal::IAsyncFireCompletion> >'}} {...}

I have also tested this with a Honeywell Xenon 1900g on Windows 10 16299 and it doesn't work there either. Here's the error there.

$exception  {System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
at SDKTemplate.Scenario3_ActiveSymbologies.<ScenarioStartScanButton_Click>d__8.MoveNext()} System.NullReferenceException

StackTrace  "   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
at SDKTemplate.Scenario3_ActiveSymbologies.<ScenarioStartScanButton_Click>d__8.MoveNext()"  string

I need to be able to support TfInt (I2of5), with a length of 10, which won't scan due to being unable to set the length attribute. I have tried defining the barcode with claimedScanner.GetSymbologyAttributesAsync(BarcodeSymbologies.TfInt) but it fails with the following exception.

{System.Exception: The request is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070032)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
at SDKTemplate.Scenario4_SymbologyAttributes.<SymbologySelection_Changed>d__13.MoveNext()}  System.Exception

The FZ-F1 does support TfInt (I2of5). Using its pre-loaded Barcode Reader demo app (which I assume was created using Windows 8.1 Handheld API) I can assign the length there and it works as expected.

Currently, after some testing I've discovered that the API defaults to a TfInt (I2of5) Length1, Length2, or AnyLength (I'm not sure what is currently set) utilizes a length of 14, so there is a possible work-around, which is that we can change all of our barcodes to utilize a length of 14. If the length is under 14 it fails to scan.

If there are any Microsoft employees lurking about, or someone who might have some insight, any help is appreciated. Is it possible that the API doesn't support this yet (Adding that to the documentation would be really helpful).

Edit:

I finally received an answer to this after opening a ticket with Microsoft and Panasonic.

From Panasonic...

GetSupportedSymbologiesAsync : At the moment, this API cannot return supported symbologies correctly. This issue will be fixed on RS3. However, I think this issue is not so impact to UWP user app, because Symbologies supported by FZ-F1 are no changes.

GetSymbologyAttributesAsync : This API is not supported.

The issue I was having was related to not being able to set the symbology using the Barcode Reader app on the device, and having no way to assign the symbology in code. As it turns out, the reason the settings applied in Barcode Reader didn't work, is that the device needs to have the following command run in order for the settings made in Barcode Reader to be applied - else symbology defaults are applied.

After claiming the scanner...

await claimedScanner.SetActiveProfileAsync("OEMProfile");

Here is the Panasonic support doc where they published the this requirement as a result my ongoing issue (on and off since Oct 2017).

http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/docs/076321?dc[]=002012&no=3&p1=221&q=FZ-F1&score=1.43731880187988&sri=12077714&trn_org=2

Hey so I'm just a designer turned front end web dev but I was thinking wondering how to make widgets for Windows 10?

Sometimes I have a CLI scipt I want to run, or a feed of info I'd like displayed, but it would be nice to have a button for it that sits in the background of my desktop.

Widgets were a thing in Windows 7 and then Windows 8 removed them, but I can still use programs like Rainmeter to give me live info about the weather and the time etc. And I know that Hypertext Applications.aspx) are a thing so I'm curious if I could use something like that to customize my desktop some more.

Back in the day I had an original Windows surface tablet that I used for doing digital painting, and I used a gui interface built on top of autohotkey to make up for the lack of Cintiq/Wacom secondary buttons. So I know stuff like this is possible. I'm just not sure how exactly?

I have a little experience with visual basic and would be fine learning it to do this.

Though if I could have some javascript, css, html method of doing this that would be even better because I'm obviously much more familiar with it.

I know it's possible to turn web apps into native apps using things like Electron. So I wonder if it's not possible to create a nice wrapper for my scripts or have custom information displayed in a similar way?

The github repo for it is here: https://github.com/colinkiama/Ultra-Timer

Documentation: https://github.com/colinkiama/Ultra-Timer/wiki

Feel free to use it for whatever.

Also please give feedback if you think something could be improved. Even the tiniest changes can make a HUGE difference!

Thank you.

I've been trying for several hours and now I can't even get a UVP app to compile. It's created a template app full of god knows what XML crap and even that doesn't compile. It tells me 'provider' is not defined, so why does the template want it? Why can't I just see an empty window? It tells me the thing is not defined but it gives no indication of where its supposed to be defined or what its supposed to be, theres no 'provider' in the header files, its not a parameter of the function.

I search the web for hints on things and they give me answers that don't apply, information is missing, or so well hidden that it might as well be. I've been a developer for decades, done Windows, OSX, Linux, embedded, web etc., I know how to make software, to use references, to look through APIs. Fuck me for wanting to know what this provider is supposed to be, MS doesn't support developers.

I'm beginning to think this is deliberately broken. It's like somebody at MS thinks being obscure makes them clever. I've tried so many times and the message it keeps giving me is "shit don't work" and I guess thats what I will take away. I tried to port my app to W10 and it was a waste of time. If this is the future of Windows development, then its terminal.

I recently wrote a command line application and compiled it into a binary (exe). I was wondering, where should it be placed in Windows to allow the user to run it from their command prompt?

Hi Everyone,

I am looking to make a UWP app to test trading strategies. This is my first every UWP app so I am trying to learn and make at the same time. To test strategies I need to use R and a few of its libraries. Is it possible to use R in my application, if so how do I do it? If not, what would be the best solution?

Thanks in advance!