Windows 8.1 Universal Store Apps
Questions tagged [windows-8.1-universal]
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Layout Cycle Detected in Windows 10 but not in Windows 8.1
I am using a timer that updates the layout every 10 seconds till the Progress bar isn't filled completely.
There seems to be no issue in Windows 8.1 but in Windows 10, Layout Cycle Detected Exception is thrown.
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Cordova app with C#/XAML for Universal Windows app
I just created a Cordova app for WP8(it uses C# and webView). Its working fine as expected. But when I try to create equivalent in Windows8.1, it always creates Html/JS as programing language. I would like to create it in C# with WebView similar to…
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The SystemMediaTransportControls were initialized in a different mode error in mytoolkit
When i run mytoolkit after background audio player start is return "The SystemMediaTransportControls were initialized in a different mode. Please use the API associated with that mode to complete this operation" Exception.
var url = await…
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Programmatically getting app XAML resource from MergedDictionaries
Universal Windows 8.1 Store Project here.
I need to programmatically get a resource from merged dictionaries of an application given a resource name.
I came up with a utility method which gets me what I want, but looks rather ugly to me:
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Michael Antipin
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ObservableCollection memory leak Windows Universal
I have a memory leak in my Windows (8.1) Universal project. Since my project is really big I've created a small sample project of which the only goal is to mimic the memory leak. I've tried many things to try to resolve this memory leak, but to no…
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What is the equivalent of NETFX_CORE in the case of windows 8.1 portable class library project targeting multi-platform?
I have an existing class library project which is targeted to the Windows 8.1.
It uses the Windows.Networking.Sockets library when it is Windows 8.1 App otherwise uses the regular System.Net.Sockets via help of NETFX_CORE.
Detail using directive…
Rezoan
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Controlling background task instances
Is there any way to synchronize several instances of one background task?
I'm working on a universal windows 8.1 store project. I have a background task that receives raw notifications and downloads and updates some data (hopefully meeting the CPU…
Michael Antipin
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Create tabs in Windows 8.1 Universal app
I'm working on a Windows 8.1 Universal app (using VS2013) and I would like to create tabs inside the GridView. After searching, I found tabs cannot be created so I need some solution where I can create something that at least looks like tabs.
Here s…
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Pdftron message header not found when opening a file with extension capitalized(DOCX)
In a windows 8.1 universal app, When opening a file with extension capitalized(eg : DOCX) we get a error "Pdftron message header not found". i.e. during initializing PDFDoc class in pdftron.PDF library. But this works fine for pdf extension…
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Named control exists on Windows 10 but not on Windows 8.1
I have the following code in a Windows 8.1 Store App. This code runs perfectly fine on Windows 10 but crashes on Windows 8.1. The second named control in MainPage.xaml.cs is null on Win 8.1 but not on Windows 10. It's not a timing issue as the named…
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How do I fix flickering Webview in flyout upon flyout opening?
I have an app that opens a flyout via custom user control. The flyout xaml contains a webview with content given to it via "[webview].NavigateToString()".
When the flyout opens, it does a slight sliding animation from just below the center of the…
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How do I release the assets of a page after I leave the page?
I have a windows 8.1 universal c# app that syncs with Amazon S3 to see if there is updated content (images and video).
If there is updated content, the user can click the "update" button and this navigates the user to an updating page where the…
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Ionic 2 App and server on localhost communication not working
I´m building a Ionic 2 App for windows 10 that needs to communicate with a server running on localhost.
All works good if I run my application in a browser (either with ionic serve or ionic run browser) but the communication between App and…
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When changing the path of an image from "included in the app" to an external source, it does not work. Why?
We are working on an app that uses json to tell the app what the image paths are. There is a background updater that runs such that the json file is downloaded and then from that new json file, we get the new paths of images.
The flow of the app is…
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Set Border Transparent for a disabled Button in Windows 8.1 Universal application
I'm working on a Windows 8.1 Universal application. I have a button and when i set IsEnabled=false. The button displays a border. PFA. I tried to set border to transparent both in xaml and code behind. but nothing works out.
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