tagged [windows-phone-8]

Read text file in project folder in Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime

Read text file in project folder in Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime I want read one file .txt in root folder of my project into my database at first time application launch, but I don't know how to do that....

Windows Phone 8: How to animate page navigation?

Windows Phone 8: How to animate page navigation? I am new to Win Phone 8 development and after a tiresome unfruitful Googling, I am posting this simple question here: How to animate page navigation? Y...

18 Nov at 12:37

ServiceStack.Common Support for Windows PHone

ServiceStack.Common Support for Windows PHone I'm planning to develop an app that consume REST services for Windows Phone 7 and came across two excellent framework, [RestSharp](https://github.com/rest...

Image from URL to stream

Image from URL to stream I'm getting images from a url: This works perfect, now i need to put it in a stream, to make it into byte array. I'm doing this: ``` WriteableBitmap wb = new WriteableBitmap(i...

Xaml TextBlock set round corner

Xaml TextBlock set round corner I am trying to set rounded corner of `TextBlock` in `xaml`. But there is no such property. How can I set rounded corner of TextBlock.

Support for XNA in WP8?

Support for XNA in WP8? After watching a little bit of the summit keynote I kind of heard conflicting reports about it, but is it official that XNA is being dropped for WP8? I'm guessing since the fut...

'IBM437' is not a supported encoding name from ZipFile Read Method

'IBM437' is not a supported encoding name from ZipFile Read Method I have a problem when my code execute this using: ``` using (ZipFile archive = ZipFile.Read(File)) //

22 May at 13:49

C# equivalent for ByteArrayOutputStream in java

C# equivalent for ByteArrayOutputStream in java I have `java` code as where tokenBytes and signedData are byte arrays.In `c#` I have written as ``` using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream()) ...

27 Feb at 08:11

System.Net HttpStatusCode class does not have code 422

System.Net HttpStatusCode class does not have code 422 Is there a way to handle http status code 422 gracefully. I am looking for the best practice here. I know that HttpStatusCode is an enum so what ...

Transparent textbox when textbox GotFocussed Windows Phone 8.1?

Transparent textbox when textbox GotFocussed Windows Phone 8.1? I need to have transparent textbox, in my WindowsPhone 8.1 Runtime application. I made `Background="Transparent"` to the textbox, so it ...

c# does not contain a definition for "InitializeComponent" and name "controlName" does not exist in current context

c# does not contain a definition for "InitializeComponent" and name "controlName" does not exist in current context I've been developing a windows phone app in a team since June. Everything worked fin...

PUSH not showing when App is open

PUSH not showing when App is open My application receives push notifications well when the application is closed. But when the app is running, I get nothing. This is the same code that I have used in ...

Photo capture on Windows Store App for Windows Phone

Photo capture on Windows Store App for Windows Phone Well, my question is simple: How do I capture pictures with a `Windows Store App` for `Windows Phone 8.1`, using the camera? The samples on MSDN us...

Image Source and Caching

Image Source and Caching I use the following code to show images from a webserver: The image gets automatically downloaded, and I assume there is also some caching based on the Url. My problem is, tha...

ERROR: Native images generated against multiple versions of assembly System.Net.Http.Primitives

ERROR: Native images generated against multiple versions of assembly System.Net.Http.Primitives I got this error in my WP8.1 app, > Application_UnhandledException ERROR: Native images generated again...

19 Feb at 04:25

Universal Apps MessageBox: "The name 'MessageBox' does not exist in the current context"

Universal Apps MessageBox: "The name 'MessageBox' does not exist in the current context" I want to use MessageBox for showing download errors in my WP8.1 app. I added: but when I type: I get error: In...

Windows Phone 8.1 XAML StringFormat

Windows Phone 8.1 XAML StringFormat I am trying to display some text along with binded data, for example, I have the code: I want to add some text before 'Shorthand', from what I have read this would ...

9 Jun at 19:12

How to set time out for http client request operation in windows phone 8.1/Windows 8.1

How to set time out for http client request operation in windows phone 8.1/Windows 8.1 How to set Timeout property to `Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient` operation. The code sample I used is below. ``` publ...

Change FontSize to fit TextBlock

Change FontSize to fit TextBlock I'm developing Windows 8 Store Application, we know that display sizes are very different, so all the elements have stretchable settings, so that if display is small e...

Call back to main thread from a Task

Call back to main thread from a Task As i don' know about threads much i have a question. I wanna do something in background and in background method i wanna switch back to the main thread on certain ...

25 May at 13:59

Windows Phone 8: Media file access

Windows Phone 8: Media file access Are there means to access audio and video files from the default audio/video folders in Windows Phone 8? I already checked this document but all methods (for instanc...

Unable to Launch Windows Phone Emulator

Unable to Launch Windows Phone Emulator I am trying to run unit tests on our CI server. When i run the following command it tries to launch emulator but fails with the following message Error Message ...

Windows Phone 8 Emulator not launching. Error code 0x80131500

Windows Phone 8 Emulator not launching. Error code 0x80131500 I have problem with Visual Studio 2012 (OS: Windows 8.1 Preview) 1. Create empty project (Windows Phone App) 2. Press F5 to start debuggin...

Windows Phone 8.1 Store app - Link to store

Windows Phone 8.1 Store app - Link to store In Windows 8.1 Apps we can link to store apps using ms-windows-store protocol. Is there any similar ways in Windows Phone 8.1? I prefer not to link to the w...

Position of ItemClick event on a ListView Windows Phone 8.1

Position of ItemClick event on a ListView Windows Phone 8.1 I have a `ListView` which shows the products in a shopping cart. The `datatemplate` defines an and a amount button for each product. If the ...

21 Jul at 11:8