I need to set the Windows 8 Application Launcher to launch my WPF application as guided here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn195617(v=winembedded.81).aspx
Is it possible or does it have to be a Windows 8 App (instead of a regular WPF application)?
If its not possible, how difficult would it be to migrate my WPF application to a Windows 8 App format?
Couldn't i simply package my WPF application with an AUMID?
Important: The Windows 8 Application Launcher also has a KeepAlive option in Windows Embedded. I need it to keep my application alive as well incase its closing so a good solution would include this as well. Of and i'm using ClickOnce for auto-update my WPF application and i would like to keep this functionality too.
your example is for win 8 Embedded and only for apps. There you have the possibility to startup directly an app.
I think there is still startup possibility for your wpf application on normal Windows 8 devices.
Maybe you have to disable metro on startup. Here is a complex tutorial about this. In Win 8.1 there will be a simple option inside the properties of the taskbar.
Judging by the page you linked, it seems you are out of luck. Only Windows 8 apps are mentioned. But maybe there is another mechanims to auto start desktop applications?
The difficulty of migrating a classic WPF desktop application to a Windows 8 ("Store") app depends on the kind and content of the application, ranging from simple to impossible.
Windows 8 apps are sandboxed and cannot do everything a desktop application can, they have a different lifecycle and different UI/UX principles (you probably need to redo your UI from scratch). .NET and XAML for Windows Store Apps look like .NET and WPF for desktop applications, but there are many surprising details and strings attached, possibly complicating a direct port.
Application Launcher is for Windows Store Applications only. However you can achieve the same effect with Shell Launcher for any executable.
Have a look at these two links here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn195623(v=winembedded.81).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn451259.aspx
Let me know if you need additional help.
Related
Here are two similar articles:
1) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/send-local-toast
2) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/send-local-toast-desktop
I can't get info one thing. First article provides tutorial for notifications for apps. Another article shows tutorial for Desktop C# app. What to choose and what are the differences? Thanks.
When they call them apps like what they mean that are the apps made with the new technology called UWP (Universal Windows Platform) which only work with Windows 10. You can see it here.
Prerequisites
To fully understand this topic, the following will be helpful...
A working knowledge of toast notification terms and concepts. For more information, see Toast and action center overview.
A familiarity with Windows 10 toast notification content. For more information, see toast content documentation.
A Windows 10 UWP app project
Then what they call Desktop C# app, are the "classic" ways to do windows applications. For example WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) in C# which runs in most Windows machines, like Windows 7 or Vista, also they meant the application made in c++.
The main difference is that what they call apps are the ones made with UWP, these ones work well on windows tables, windows phones, and so on.
And desktop c# app
is an app created with WPF which is a little older but works in older OS's.
guys, first time posting -
I'm a newbie to Windows development and VS (Using 2013 on Windows 8.1).
I've created a very simple application by the action of
File->New Project/WPF application.
The application works great, and does exactly what I'd like it to do.
I successfully added a large (128x128) icon and got it to look great on Windows 7's taskbar and start menu by right-clicking my project in the Solution Explorer and specifying my .ico file through there.
I also added the 'Icon' property to my MainWindow.xaml file and it even looks great on the taskbar of Windows 8...
However, it doesn't even display my app's icon on the Start Menu of Windows 8, and I am having a really hard time finding documentation specific to this issue.
I'm sure it's a no-brainer but I'm just stuck.
How do I get a nice icon and tile in Windows 8?
Live tiles are only supported in Windows Store Applications but you can use some third-party solutions that provides a way to add this capability via the interoperation between your Desktop Application and separate Windows Store application (this one is installed on end-users computers and behaves like a server that can provide a Tile for its clients, which actually are the Desktop applications).
For example, DevExpress solution - WinRTLiveTileManager.
Or you can implement this approach itself...
Live tiles are only supported in Windows Store Apps unfortunately.
See this thread...
We have existing Windows Store application which is developed using C# and XAML. We want to port the same to Windows 8 Mobile application. Is there any Guidelines available for this ?
Well at first I would start figuring out the differences
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj681690%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
http://blog.markedup.com/2013/07/winrt-windows-phone-8-code-sharing-pitfalls/
When I ported two of my (smaller) apps, I put as much in a PCL (portable class library) as I could. All the stuff that remained in the project itself needed to be rewritten. If you have well-maintainable code, there should be only UI (what you have to adapt anyway) and very few platform specific code (like accessing filesystem, camera or whatever) left. This is the part you must redevelop.
Dnt know how you have made these applications well If you have followed MVVM pattern then it is very easy to port windows and windows phone apps from one to other. You just need to take care of new XAML UIs every thing except some platform specific liberalizes will work. While making any of windows store and windows phone application you should use the liberaries that both platforms can consume. For example you can use LEX.db for the database.
here are very good explanations for it.
sharing code between windows phone and windows 8 app -1
sharing code between windows phone and windows 8 app -2
hope this will help
The answers given so far are quite good. One thing to note is that Windows Phone 8.1 is about to be released, which will share many of the WinRT libraries. This will mean that in a few months (as early as May), the shared libraries between the two platforms will greatly increase. You can download the leaked SDK to see what some of the changes will be.
Not that you should wait until then, and creating a PCL is definitely going to help you (especially if you want to later move to iOS, Android as well). It's just something to keep in mind.
I realize this might sound a little dubious but I assure you it isn't. I have a client who wants a win 8 pro touch screen app. One of the requirements is that the app is the only thing on the device the user may use. So my question is, can I make it so that the user cannot exit my wpf application? I have it running full screen without toolbars but they could still click on start etc. I essentially want it to run on windows but kind of be its own OS. Any advice is appreciated. Also if this is something that can be handled in group policies or some other way I would love to have that advice as well. Thank you.
You'll need to set Windows 8.1 to run in "Kiosk" mode.
How to enable Kiosk mode in Windows 8.1
The only caveat, is that the app must be a Windows modern app, not WPF.
Windows 8.1 comes with an excellent feature where you can lockdown the
device allowing the user to use only one application. You need to keep
in mind that this application needs to be a modern application and
cannot be a desktop application. So, if you are going to use it for
your customized company application (For e.g. ATMs, Flight Schedule),
the application should be a modern application
There is a product called "Secure Lockdown" from Inteset http://shop.inteset.com/lock-down-windows-7-with-inteset-secure-lockdown that looks like it can be used with a WPF app. I've not used it (yet), but it looks like it should work for your scenario. It's not free, but it reasonably priced at around $20. It says it is compatible with Windows 8 as well.
We are looking at creating a new mobile application which will run on tablets using full Windows 8. We would like to be able to use full SQL for our data storage (which can be accessed easily using Windows Forms apps), but also retain the nice controls and touch friendliness provided by Windows Store apps (e.g. the LayoutAwarePage and the Windows 8 XAML controls).
We were looking at a way to use the Windows Store libraries within a Windows Forms application (as mentioned here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj856306.aspx#consuming_standard_windows_runtime_types), but have had no joy beyond adding the reference to a solution.
Does anyone know how to add a LayoutAwarePage to a Windows Forms application? Or is there a better way to approach this?
If you want it to look like a windows 8 app try having a look at MahApps
http://mahapps.com/MahApps.Metro/
Its pretty easy to use and look pretty good, this is for wpf though not winforms