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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 the value as seen in the picture below I was...
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When building WinRT applications it is going to be pretty common to want to play some sort of embedded audio file. It may also be common to want to play this file but via a ViewModel (or simply not in a view). In this post we are going to take a quick look at how to play an MP3 file by using...
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When working with a C#/XAML WinRT application it is common that you will include resources such as images, files, audio recordings, etc inside your deployment package. It will also be common that you may want to access these resources as native storage files in order to do things like share them...
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When building a WinRT/Metro application one of the key integration points between your application and others is to allow Data Sharing via the Sharing Contracts. By default applications DO NOT support sharing and when a user taps on the Share Charm they will see an error similar to the following. This...
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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. Renaming my project file. Turns out that any...
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**** 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 developers can now easily light up their...
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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 developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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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 the idea that testing is important) One thing...