i'm using windows 8 with visual studio 2013.
i made some changes on wpf app,i made all the steps from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh454036.aspx
to upload the app to the store.
the app is in the store but only windows 8 users can see it.
the problem is that windows 10 users can't see the app and install it.
do i need to use visual studio 2015 in order to make the app uwp?
thanks for helpers
If I view your app in the store it comes with a message saying it is "currently not available".
This might explain why it is not showing in search results.
With any store listing problem like this you should first start by contacting store support. They should be able to tell you: why you can't see an app in search (noting of course that they won't tell you why you're app has a specific position in search results and that even an exact search for an apps name may not put it on the first page of results); if there are any known problems; or if it's somehow related to your account.
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Here's the situation: I have an ASP.NET Web Forms application which uses WPF controls for reporting.
Process is the following: Create WPF controls and bind to data -> create image from WPF control -> use generated image to create PDF reports.
I'm using RenderTargetBitmap to render bitmaps from WPF controls. Issue is when I run all this on my local machine (Windows 10) it works, as soon as application is deployed on QA machine (Windows Server 2008 R2) it generates empty images.
I tried to simplify reporting page, by leaving only static text on the WPF control, still I get empty page.
I created sample console application which mimics part of binding data to WPF (granted static data) and generating image from WPF control & it works on both environments. One difference I can think of is the console application is not running as IIS' AppPoolIdentity, which runs the Web Application on the QA machine.
I came across this SO post which suggests there was a Windows Update that caused similar issue. Our QA machine is Azure VM, so updates are installed regularly. Update that caused the issue is from September 2017, having fix update out in October 2017. So I rulled out windows update causing the issue.
Also in the referenced SO post, OP suggests that this issue happens only if account running the code is System account
It ONLY doesn't work if run under high privilege SYSTEM account (e.g. from Task scheduler).
I tried this as well, having Task Scheduler running the sample console app, but as I mentioned above it successfully created the image.
So at this moment I'm pretty much out of ideas.
The application code that is supposed to generate images is scattered so I'm not sharing it here, but if any piece is of particular interest happy to post.
Any idea what can cause this different behavior in diff. environments ?
It turns out ruling out missing Windows Update was not the right thing to do.
At the end I installed the fix windows update and issue was solved.
I'm trying to convert a WPF oneclick installed application and so everything should be pretty straight forward. However, whenever I run the debug project, I get
'The parameter is incorrect'
in a message box popup and I can never run the app.
This happens for my app while trying to debug, all the samples from github, and even the DAC application from the Windows Store. The error pops up even once the app is installed and showing in my application list.
I'm on the latest build of the Creators Update.
There are various errors in the event viewers, but they seem to be a common occurence for WinRT apps.
Any ideas at all?
If you have the WPF project in VS2017, I'd recommend to package directly from VS without using the DAC. see the article for more information https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-packaging-dot-net
The problem appears to be related to the May Security Update. I restored Windows to the factory defaults and everything works fine.
However, once I install the the May Security Update to address this bug with Sql Server and Filestreams, the Desktop Bridge Debugging project stops working.
I'm going to throw out a random guess that it's related to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, as the event viewer logs mentioned an issue with the 'parameter is incorrect' referring to the Microsoft.MRT.
Of course it could be anything, and as only 7500 people have even downloaded the Desktop Bridge Debugging project in the first place, I doubt it's high on the list of Microsoft Developer Priorities.
And to be completely honest, it's really probably my fault for not rewriting the app as a UWP app, after rewriting it as a Windows Forms app, and as a Silverlight app, and as a WPF app and on and on and on. Although, I'm not sure how many glasses of Kool Aid are left in the punch bowl for me.
When I run the application in Visual Studio, some screens are not visible!
Screens when App is started in VS 2012
The currently deployed version on the web server, shows all screens.
Published Version
I cant publish now, since not all screens are shown.
im hoping its going to be an issue as simple as this, if you go to your Project Properties, and check that the "Granted for debug" options are ticked. basically if these aren't ticked, then it will compare all your screens against the "TestUser" rather than the Administrator you are logging in as on your live version.
when they are check you are effectively ignoring the permissions so you can see everything while programming it. Ticking these has no affect over your live project.
Hope this helps
I was asked to develop a software in vb.net and one of it's features should be the possibility to take photos on a tablet PC. I already played around with the MediaCapture API which returns me a photo, but as it seems that it's not possible to show a preview or anything else outside of ModernUI apps. It's just pure photo capturing.
I thought for a little while how this problem could be solved. I got some inspiration from my Android phone then. My idea was to call some sort of API to open up the regular Windows 8 camera app in ModernUI mode, let the user take the photo and then receiving that through a "return value", just like you usually do it in Android apps.
Now my question is, if there is a way to start up the Windows 8 default camera app, let it take a photo and receive that back into my WPF desktop application.
I could develop my software as ModernUI app as well, but I never did that and it also seems like you must publish it over the web store then, but I only want to use that inside my company.
My other (simple stupid) idea would be to ask the user to open the camera app by himself, take some photos and come back to my software later. I could then receive the images from the folder they were stored in. I guess that would work as well, but I don't really like that idea because it's not very intuitive and seems just stupid.
If you have an idea (or an alternative), I would be really happy if you could share it with me.
Thanks in advance!
Unfortunately, there are no .NET classes that allow you to access a webcam or integrated camera on your computer. This means that you have to take a look at the native Windows API and call it from your application. I cannot point you to the right methods that you have to use, as I just have used Microsoft Media Foundation to capture a continuous stream of images from a webcam and encode it to a video file.
There are some sites that encapsulate this native functionality in .NET classes, but I don't know if they are good or not:
http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/using-webcam-wpf-application
http://www.yiigo.com/guides/vbnet/how-to-process-image.shtml
(just google for more if you'd like to).
In Windows Store Apps, this task can be performed relatively easy with the media capture API you've mentioned. You can also side-load Windows Store Apps if you have Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise - then you do not have to publish your app in the Windows Store.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask.
A couple of weeks ago the new cocos2d-x (version 2.2.1) was released with great support for windows phone. However, there is one thing missing in the templates and examples: integration of XAML with Cocos2d-x. A feature that is absolutely necessary for free to play games that use ads since every single ad network uses a silverlight component.
I tried to implement the integration myself but I am stuck and all I get is a black screen. I used the following strategy for implementing it:
modified the CCEGLView class. The create method takes the follwing arguments:
bool CCEGLView::Create(In IDrawingSurfaceRuntimeHostNative* host, In ID3D11Device1* device)
in the XamlComponent class of the visual studio template I have added CCApplication member variable and the Connect methos create the CCEGLView and runs theCCAplication.
Everything compiles without any errors and runs without any crashes. However, the screen remains black :-( My guess is that the drawing surface / windows is not correctly passed but I do not know how I can do this.
Any help and ideas appreciated.
Cheers
Tom
Cocos2dx 2.2.1 used native mode, currently it's not support XAML+native hybrid mode.
CoreWindow is a fundamental component, do you remove all the referene to CoreWindow?
You can look up from this project, they've a branch for wp8+waml.
https://github.com/MSOpenTech/cocos2d-x/tree/wp8-xaml