Derik Whittaker

Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract

**** NOTE: This post is valid for the Developer Preview of WinRT and MAY change in later releases **** If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application...

Published 09-28-2011 5:50 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, XAML, WinRT, Metro, Settings Charm

How to Resolve the ‘Manifest Reference file ‘XYZ’ is not part of the payload in Metro

When building a C# WinRT/Metro you may run into the following compile error Manifest references file ‘yourfilenamehere.exe’ which is not part of the payload I have received this error a few times now, each time after doing the exact same thing...

Published 10-09-2011 6:09 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WinRT, Metro

WinRT/Metro–Problem with the data from <Application Name> error

When trying to setup your WinRT/Metro application to share data it is possible that you will encounter the following error when you select the ‘Share’ charm The good news is that if you get this error it means you have mostly setup your application...

Published 10-23-2011 10:10 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WinRT, Metro

Silverlight Code 2104 – Could not download the silverlight app error

Today after pulling latest from our TFS server, and doing a few auto merges (turns out that the AutoMerge is at fault here again)(some day I will learn NOT to trust TFS to do anything, but doubt it) I tried to fire up our Silverlight Browser app and I...

Published 10-10-2011 8:26 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Silverlight

Using SQL CE On WP7 Mango–Working with Indexes

This is another post in a series of posts on how to use SQL CE on WP7 Mango. If you would like to see the other posts they are listed below Using SQL CE on WP7 Mango–Getting Started Using SQL CE On WP7 Mango–Working with Associations Using SQL CE...

Published 07-24-2011 2:58 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WP7 Mango, SQL CE 3.5

Setting the Initial Rotation in a C# Metro Application

If you have started to play with the WinRT /Win8 developer preview bits you have noticed that there are several project templates to choose from: Application Grid Application Split Application Class Library Unit Tests (finally they get ...

Published 09-24-2011 7:06 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, XAML, WinRT, Metro

Data Binding to the Panorama control in WP7

When you build a Windows Phone 7 (soon to be 8) application, one of the screen layouts you can use is the Panorama. In most cases the number of pages in the panorama is hard defined in code but there is the occasion when you will add pages dynamically ...

Published 08-22-2012 1:56 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone, XAML, WP7 Mango

Help my Secondary Tile will not navigate correctly in my Win Phone Application

When you are adding the ability to have a Secondary tile to your Windows phone application you may from time to time find the need to debug or mimic the launching of the application via the Secondary tile w/ the correct query string values. Sadly, debugging...

Published 08-25-2012 8:15 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone, WP7 Mango

Raleigh Windows 8 Developer Camp – October 9th

Brian Hitney and Jim Duffy will be hosting a follow up Windows 8 Developer Camp in Raleigh on Tuesday, October 9th in the Microsoft RTP office. Come on out Tuesday, October 9th at 9:00 AM to the Microsoft RTP office to continue learning how to construct...

Published 10-03-2012 5:20 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Windows 8

Parsing Twitter Date format to .Net DateTime

Recently when I needed to parse the twitter datetime format into a .Net DateTime I found this post on the web showing how to do it. However, the format string in the post is setup for non-us format so I thought I would share how to do it for US...

Published 05-24-2012 7:53 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, HowTo

Argument Exception when Working with Secondary Tiles in WinRT (C#)

If you are attempting to work with or create secondary tiles and you are getting the following exception you may want to check your title id. System.ArgumentException: The parameter is incorrect. When trying to do a SecondaryTile.Exists (tileId) with...

Published 07-14-2012 1:28 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WinRT, Metro

FileLoadException: Could not load file for Version 2.0.5.0, Portable Class Library

Recently while trying to deploy a service to a clean VM (moving this off our main production server onto its own server) I ran into the error below” Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System, Version...

Published 07-23-2012 5:13 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, Help!!!, HowTo

How to Capture Images w/ the WebCam in WinRT (C#) applications.

When building WinRT applications you will want to implement the ability to capture images/video’s from the onboard webcamera in order to use in your application. Fortunately for you this is very easy to accomplish. We will walk through how...

Published 07-06-2012 1:21 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Metro

Using GridView ItemTemplate and ItemTemplateSelector at the same time

If you are building a XAML based WinRT application which uses a GridView it is very likely you are going to use an ItemTemplate style OR use the ItemTemplateSelector to determine which style to use. This is great and using either of these could...

Published 05-04-2012 12:56 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT

Working with Image Paths in WinRT–Something odd here

Over the weekend I was pounding away at my first ‘WinRT’ application which I plan to submit to the marketplace. During this process I ran into some really odd issues with getting images to display in the UI at runtime. Let me explain my issue: I...

Published 04-16-2012 5:25 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT

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