The charms bar is the menu on the right side of the screen in Windows 8 (by default hidden). When a mouse is used you can activate it by moving your mouse to the right top or bottom corner. On a touch enabled device you can swipe from the border to the left to activate it.
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search contract within the Metro app of Windows8
I would like to know how can I implement the search contract from within the app, to search/find a few files present inside the application.
As far as I know, there are a lot of articles especially from msdn, blogs, etc which helps us create a…
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Using WebView And Search Charm
Is Posibble To Using Search Charm with WebView? uh, I'm using VB and VS 2012 For Windows 8 Apps. So Like This :
Website : ex: example.com/search-0-{searchkeyword}
Search Charm -> Keyword -> Proceed To WebView -> replacing searchkeyowrd on WebView…
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How can I close CharmBar programmatically in WinRT?
I need to closing charmBar programmatically, how can I do it?
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Share WriteableBitmap as File
I'm currently writing a small image editing app for the Windows Store in which I'd like to make use of the share charm for edited images. As some apps do only accept StorageFiles and not Bitmaps (like the default Mail App) I'd like to offer the…
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Web site thumbnails for the Windows 8 Share Charm
According to Link Previews (Windows) on MSDN, a website can set an image or thumbnail to represent itself in the Share Charm on Windows 8. This is achieved by including one of four meta elements with an image.
I have tried using this, but cannot see…
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How to customize the Device charm bar using C#/XAML in windows 8?
I have an requirement that, need to customize the Device charm bar in windows 8?
I need to add a button or any other control in Device charm bar.
Is it possible?
If yes, how can we customize it?
Thanks in advance.
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Unable to find sharing info Win8 app
I'm creating a Windows 8 app that should be using the Share contract that is the sharing source, but the problem is that it keeps on waiting for share info from the app but I can't manage to find out why it's still waiting...
The only code I…
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How to detect search has been turned off in Windows 8?
What is a elegant way to detect if the user has turned off search for my app, so in case he tries to search my app, I can notify him that he has turned search off.
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Add option to toggle airplane mode to Windows 8 application
I would like to ask if it is possible to add an option in the Settings charm to toggle the airplane mode in a Windows 8 application.
Thanks in advance!
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Add a line break when sharing a text with the charm bar
For a Windows 8 App, in C#/Xaml, I am using the charm bar to share some content.
My problem is that I don't see my carriage returns in the text I want to share in the sharing application.
For example I want to share :
Hello,
Read this article…
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Scenario for disabling the Charms Bar
i need to disable the charmbar when i have a wpf app running on fullscreen, there is a way to accomplish that? i need to disable it because is a touch screen app and i dont want user to switch to other applications
Thanks
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know when user clicks on rate and review?
Is there any way I can know that a user clicked on the Rate & Review button in the charms/settings bar?
Note: This button is automatically added to Apps in the Windows Store. I don't have any control over the button.
I thought that it would be ideal…
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Item below charms bar gets invoked when search is clicked
I have created a page with horizontal layout listview with enough items added to it have a horizontal scrollbar. When you click an item in de listview it navigates to a different page with some details about the clicked item.
Now I have added search…
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