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...
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...
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 to do this in this post. Step 1: Enable access to...
When you are building Metro Applications it will be very common that your application will have image (.png) files stored in local isolated storage and that you will want to show these images to the users inside your application. In this post i am going to walk you though how to access these stored...
When building WinRT applications there will be the need to create IStorageFiles in the local storage area of your application. In this post I was going to walk through how we can do this step by step. Step 1: Get the StorageForlder object for your application var storageFolder = ApplicationData...