I am trying to develop universal app for first time. This may be a silly question, but is there any comprehensive documentation for c# developing? I need to partially migrate windows 8 app to universal app, but everything I need to use is different there and nowhere I can find what to use instead. It takes hours to find something useful. Mostly here or at other forums. MSDN is not very helpful in this case. I found that universal apps do not use .net framework or silverlight. Is possible to say that universal apps uses clearly labeled standard, for example .net framework 4.5? In this time it seems to me I have to use something from Windows Runtime apps and something from Windows Store apps APIs.
The MS Virtual Academy offers free courses (mostly jumpstarts) for things you might be interested in.
Below is a link to their jumpstart course:
Developing Universal Windows Apps with HTML and JavaScript Jump Start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/developing-universal-windows-apps-with-html-and-javascript-jump-start
And a link to their jumpstart course:
Programming in C# Jump Start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/developer-training-with-programming-in-c
Hopefully, this will get you started.
What I was looking for:
Windows universal apps use Windows Runtime.
Only reliable official "MSDN like" page I found is http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211369.aspx
Good tutorials are at Channel 9.
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I have a very simple question and I feel like there should be an easy answer. How can I use a method that is only supposed to be used by a windows 10 app in just a regular application? The method in particular is Geolocator.RequestAccesssync which refuses to be run unless I was using a windows universal app. Any advice?
You can't. Per MSDN Docs:
Requirements (Windows 10 device family)
Device family: Universal, introduced version 10.0.10240.0
The API simply doesn't exist in older OS versions. It's not there to call.
As I am really really new to Universal Apps and I am coming from previous experience with WPF and Silverlight I was wondering if there is an approach I could use to take advantage of the .NET 4.5 APIs in an project created as Universal App. I know this might be a stupid question but as the idea of Universal Apps is to be "universal" it bright this thought to my head "Could I create a 'class library' for WPF and use it in an Universal App".
I have been researching this on the web but with no success so decided to test my luck here. Also if anyone could point me to some good resources in getting started with Universal app (for WPF/Silverlight .NET developers) it would be awesome.
You should be using Portable Class Libraries. It will give you the option to select which platforms to target. Keep in mind that the API surface available to Universal Apps are somewhat of a subset of the API surface available to WPF. This is somewhat analogous to how Silverlight was a subset of WPF in the beginning and then branched out somewhat over later versions.
I apologize in advance for asking this on SO but I cant seem to find an answer anywhere else.
Is there a good tutorial for building non trivial app on windows phone (7 or 8) from start to finish.
as windows phone has many features you can follow the below link and choose your own Sample
Windows Phone Samples
Sample App Demonstration
It also depends on which language you want to code, although c# is popular among them.
All information to start can be found at http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us
For example this first step-by-step tutorial
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windowsphone/develop/ff402526(v=vs.105).aspx
I realize there will be additional work (as the SDK only works on Windows 8 and WP8) as the SDK provides controls to provide a login sequence (via Microsoft Account, Facebook, etc).
I am wondering if it is possible to achieve the same result with a Windows Phone 7 app? I've been searching for a while, and there is not much on Mobile Services at all, let alone for WP7. Is there some (technical?) reason (besides the fact that WP7 is not the latest and greatest) that Microsoft has left WP7 out in the cold with Azure Services?
I realize that just accessing the data via REST in WP7 is trivial, but I'm really getting at is the entire process of using deferred authentication restricting access to users own data only, is this doable without their SDK without a monumental effort?
It turns out that the SDK is open source, and the source is at https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services .
Now, I haven't dug into the source, and don't know what the porting effort might look like, but it seems reasonable to think that it shouldn't be too much of an effort.
Good luck, and share it back if you make progress. :)
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A preview of the new C# client which supports Windows Phone 7.5 is now available to try out. Remember it is pre-release and therefore not supported. http://www.johanlaanstra.nl/?p=217
Officially no I am afraid.
But you can find a (partial) client platform agnostic implementation in a form of a C# SDK here:
https://github.com/kenegozi/azure-mobile-csharp-sdk
This will allow you to use Azure Mobile Services with WP7 I guess.
I would like to have some basic communication between some apps we are building. I have been researching on wifi direct, which sounds perfect, but I cannot find much information on it for Windows 7 and WPF (C#).
When I search around all I seem to get is Windows 8 support and Android questions.
Is this a standard that has been implemented by Windows 7? Can I use the features in a C# WPF app? If so, some reference materials would be great if you know of any.
Thanks.
Wifi direct is not implemented in Windows 7, although there may be some 3rd party apps available that implement it.
It is a new feature built into windows 8. Here's a presentation that goes over the feature in detail: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/HW-329T