Questions tagged [win-phone-silverlight-8.1]

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Carousel page does not swipe on some device

I've created a Xamarin Forms project. I have the following XAML in my project:
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Convert WriteableBitmap of win phone 8.1 (silverlight) to BinaryBitmap of com.google.zxing

Spent almost a day searching but couldn't find a proper solution. I am developing a QR reading module for my win 8.1 phone app which is Silverlight based (not win 8.1 phone native) I am using zxing lib to add complete the QR module. I have reached…
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xamarin forms win phone 8.1 background tasks for push notifications not registering

I am attempting to register a background task for a Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app but have not been able to successfully achieve this. From the samples I have seen online I don't see what I'm doing wrong. Anyhow below are some snapshots of the…
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Xamarin forms win phone silverlight 8.1 Toast notifications not working

I am trying to make a toast notification show in a Xamarin Forms, windows phone 8.1 silverlight project. Inside the Windows Phone project I have a method that creates a toast notification, however, nothing happens when it is executed. No error is…
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WP 8.1 Update Square AND Wide Tile - How?

How do I update both, the square and the wide tile per code at once? Or how can I determine, wich tile type is "loaded" on the start screen? I have this code: private void JamesBond() { var tileXML =…
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Interactive MapIcon, Windows Phone 8.1 Universal App

so, I have an app which allows users to add recommendations for restaurants and places in a certain area, when added a MapIcon is added to map and data pulled from parse, what i need is a way that when the MapIcon is clicked that is displays the…
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MapIcon image property in Windows Phone 8.1 make app crash?

I have problem with MapIcon image property in Windows Phone 8.1 LocationIcon.Image = RandomAccessStreamReference.CreateFromUri(new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/icon/location_icon.png")); using it make my app crash, but i need to show the location icon…
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UserControl in Windows Phone 8.x project can't be found: "The type or namespace name 'UserControls' does not exist in the namespace"

I have a windows phone project where I've added a usercontrol: namespace MyApp.WindowsPhone.UserControls { public partial class SlidingUpOverlay : UserControl { public SlidingUpOverlay() { InitializeComponent(); …
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WinPhone application in Xamarin.Forms

When I create a blank Xamarin.Forms application, there isn't a WinPhone application loaded, why ? Note: I'm trying on Windows.
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Xamarin Forms WinPhone 8.1 Silverlight WNS push notifications

I'm attempting to configure my app to use WNS instead of MPNS (I am using Xamarin Forms and have a Win Phone 8.1 Silverlight project with an Azure Notification hub for the back end), for that I updated my code to use the the mobile service to…
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Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 Background tasks

I have a Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 App and I'd like to add a Background task that uploads some data every 30 minutes if there is internet connectivity. I followed the steps to create a Background task in Windows Phone 8.1 but I cannot create a…
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WinPhone 8.1 register Push Id to Azure notification hub error: The type name 'MobileService' does not exist in the type 'App'

I would like to configure Push notifications for a Xamarin Forms Windows 8.1 Silverlight project. Originally I was using MPNS but am attempting to switch over to WNS. Switching over I am now running into an error when I am attempting to call the…
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Xamarin Forms: Win Phone 8.1 Silverlight offline mode using Azure

I am creating an app that must be able to load when it is offline, for this we are using Azure and Sqlite. In the project I have downloaded the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.MobileServices.SQLiteStore package from NuGet along with its dependency package…
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Authenticate Xamarin windows phone 8.1 Apps Using Azure Active Directory (no Preview dlls)

We are developing Xamarin forms windows phone 8.1 App and we want to use Azure Active Directory for Authentication. (we are using Xamarin forms as in future we may develop app for ios, anroid) We don't want to use any preview version of ADAL. I…
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Using WNS for Windows phone Silverlight 8.1-MPNS for Windows phone 8

I have developed Windows Phone 8 application and implemented MPNS(Microsoft Push Notification Services). **I have upgraded the app from Windows Phone 8 version to Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 using Visual Studio 2013, As per this link I found WNS…