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...
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...
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 not be any easier. HOWEVER, make sure you do...
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 had images which were nested inside my Assets folder...