This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor (this post) Inclinometer Sensor (future post) Accelerometer Sensor (future post) Most tablets and laptops these days have an...
Most tablets and laptops these days have an array of sensors onboard the device that developers can use and take advantage of. One of the sensors which is on most tables and laptops is the Light Sensor. This sensor can be used for many things and it is common that the light sensor is used to illuminate...
When building a Windows RT application (based on C#) it is pretty common that you will want to notify your user of an event. It is more common that you are going to want to do this in a way which is not intrusive, aka does not get in the way of the user. Luckily for you the WinRT team has...
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...