Windows Phone 8.1 is missing the Windows.Data.Pdf.PdfDocument API from Windows Store apps. What are my alternatives? Will this get added soon?
As indicated in a comment above, this is not currently supported. I have received a comment from a Microsoft employee on MSDN which says:
You can launch PDF files into the default PDF app or find a 3rd party
PDF control. We can't comment on future versions of the OS.
This hints at future support. In theory it should be easy for them as Windows Phone 8.1 is now the same platform.
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I'm trying to build an app that combines speech recognition with an interface to the Microsoft Band. I want to use speech to drive a laptop-based program, and that program to drive data streaming from the Band.
The Band SDK works with a Universal App template for Windows Phone 8.1, and I have been able to stream data from the Band to a laptop (running either Windows 8.1 or 10) using the Windows 8.1 project in the UA solution (I haven't tried the Phone 8.1 project, yet, but have seen demos of this online).
I have found that the UA template won't let me add references, and System.Speech is unsupported. Windows.Media.SpeechSynthesis is supported (the 'using' clause is accepted), but Windows.Media.SpeechRecognition is not (the 'using' clause throws the error message).
Is there a work-around for getting the SpeechRecognition dll to be recognised, or has Microsoft simply decided not to allow speech recognition to work with the Universal App template?
(Maybe the Band has been cancelled because they just don't know how to engineer everything to play together?)
Did you read MSDN, info about System.Speech.Recognition? I had just create simple ConsoleApplication, add Reference to System.Speech and everythink work fine:
I'm beyond confused trying to grasp what is what regarding Microsoft's so called "Runtime" Apps (also called "Universal" or the convergence of Windows 8.1).
I'm currently building an app for both Windows 8.1 and Phone 8.1 and wondering, is the Notification API exactly the same? Since I'm having trouble understanding what is what, it's hard to google what it is I'm after.
If I googled for "Phone 8 apps" it's obviously wrong, because they are something different.
Optimally I just wanna use the exact same code for the phone app as for the Windows 8.1 app, is that possible?
Sorry if I made no sense and thanks!
If you create an universal app, you'll be able to share the exact same notification code between desktop and phone, as they both share the same runtime (called WinRT). Any code you find to implement notifications on Windows 8.1 is directly applicable on Windows Phone 8.1
I have searched on the net regarding how to implement share content and found that we can use Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer namespace to share the content on Windows Phone 8 App too. But I am getting error that this namespace is not supported on Windows Phone 8.
Can you guys please tell me if there is some other way to share the contents like PDF file in a Windows Phone 8 app. I have created a program which captures an image & then converts the image to PDF file now I want this converted PDF file to be shared, but unable to do using Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer namespace.
Any input will be highly appreciated.
The "Windows 8 way" does not work on Windows Phone 8. You need to use uri or file associations, more info at Auto-launching apps using file and URI associations for Windows Phone 8
I am developing Windows Phone 7 application with C#.Application have to download torrent files.So it's extension ".torrent".But Windows Phone doesn't support torrent files.So it says "Can't download file.Windows Phone doesn't support this file type." What can I do ?
There's no way to add handler for custom extensions in Windows Phone 7. According to rumors based on the leaked SDK, it may be possible in Windows Phone 8 (but no official announcement yet). So for now, there's nothing you can do.
I want to develop an application for Windows 7.5 mango OS phone like HTC Mozart, I am already having Visual Studio 2008, will the apps built by Windows Mobile 5 smartphone SDK be supported in a windows phone?
No, the Windows Phone SDK is the only one that is supported. In short, Windows Mobile != Windows Phone.
Also the UI is drastically different and the underlying runtime and .NET framework is also different. You might be able to port the logic of your code across easily to the new SDK, but the UI will need rewriting.
There are also a lot of freedoms lost in the new iteration as "the user is king". This means you need to review what your current app requires and provides to see if it is even a good fit for the new range of phones.
No, Windows mobile SDK wont work for Windows phone 7 applications.
See, the .NET Framework for windows phone 7 has changed completely . Infact the classes and APIs have changed .you can carry forward your previous experience of Windows Phone development into this new one but that certainly might not be the same code and services working in the same platform