Top "Win-universal-app" questions

Windows Universal apps target multiple types of devices via a single codebase.

Universal Windows App Show Page As Dialog

I am trying to display a page as a dialog in Universal Window App (Windows 10). In WFP, there is this …

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Encoding.GetEncoding can't work in UWP app

I need to encode some text files for native characters. In my Windows 8.1 Store app, I could use Encoding.GetEncoding() …

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UWP - No certificate found with the supplied thumbprint

I have a UWP app I work on from two difference devices. After the latest Visual Studio 2019 update I began …

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Display local toast notification

I want to develop a universal app for Windows Phone 8.1 which contains a local “Notification”. What I want to do …

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Get Device Info using C# in Windows Universal App (Windows 10)

I was wondering how to get device-specific information programmatically using C# in the new Universal Windows app platform. This is …

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MVVM Light "Type Not Found in cache"

I'm trying to convert my Windows Phone 8 Silverlight application to an 8.1 Phone app as part of a universal app. I …

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UWP ObservableCollection sorting and grouping

In UWP apps, how can you group and sort an ObservableCollection and keep all the live notification goodness? In most …

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How to increase the size of a SymbolIcon in XAML?

I have a button that I want to use to launch video playback, so it should look like a "Play" …

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When to use a templated control over a UserControl?

I was looking some tutorials on how to create custom controls in WinRT, and I have a question. Let's say …

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Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) in visual studio

Am a newbie to windows 10 uwp having migrated from wpf applications. I know this question has been asked before but …

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