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
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.
Hopefully a simple question; I seem to recall seeing somebody at one of the recent Microsoft conferences say that some of the UWP application functionality was to be made available within WPF/Desktop. Unfortunately, I can no longer find (or remember) which of the many videos this was from (though it was probably Build or similar on Channel9).
Is it therefore possible to use UWP controls within a WPF application? Basically I want the look and feel of an "app", including some of the new controls (RelativePanel, SplitPanel) and the themed buttons etc., but I need the power of the full desktop - such as access to the full file system.
Thanks.
I think you are referring to the different Bridges to port apps to Windows 10 from for instance, IOS, Android, Web, Win32, etc. and still take advantage of Windows 10 features and APIs. Specifically, I think you are talking about the Bridge to bring in Win32 apps. You can find the bridges listed here.
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/bridges
•"Project Centennial": This toolkit will enable desktop developers to package and publish their existing .NET and Win32-based Windows applications to the Windows Store. Developers can also use Centennial to call common UWP APIs and services."
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.
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.
Can I run RT apps on windows phone, or windows 8 phone apps on windows 8 RT or PRO?
If I need to develop an app to run on RT tablets and on windows 8 phones, what should I do?
EDIT
When Microsoft will provide a unified way to develop apps????
Am I requested to develop tons of apps to run on all of Microsoft platforms, I am not an Apple fan at all, but Microsoft should learn more and more from them, I spent and am spending all of my time chasing Microsoft techniques, it is very very annoying!!! :(
No,
But you can share code through the use of Portable Class Libraries or linked files.
I recently wrote two articles about how to achieve this:
The first one is about whether to choose PCL's or linked files:
http://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/03/27/portable-class-libraries-or-source-code-sharing/
The second one is about how to work around the limitations of PCL's:
http://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/02/24/patterns-for-sharing-code-in-windows-phone-and-windows-8-applications/
No. The two runtimes are not compatible.
If I need to develop an app to run on RT tablets and on windows 8 phones, what should I do?
You can use the portable class libraries to save logic, but not the presentation code.
You would then build your UI on each platform, using the appropriate tools for the platform.
You can't just run a xap on a tablet. You CAN however take almost all of the XAML and C# uncompiled code and recompile for the tablet. You just need to fix some of the idiosyncrasies in the syntax. Same goes for Windows 8 Pro.