Top "Windows-8" questions

How can a Metro app in Windows 8 communicate with a backend desktop app on the same machine?

In a situation where you have the UI frontend built using the new Metro style of apps for windows 8, and …

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Is there a way to convert a System.IO.Stream to a Windows.Storage.Streams.IRandomAccessStream?

In Windows 8; I would like to pass the contents of a MemoryStream to a class that accepts a parameter of …

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How to ActiveSync Windows Mobile 6 to windows 8

I have some devices with Windows CE 5, CE 6, Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5. Synchronizing with ActiveSycn 4.5 on XP and Windows 7 I have …

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How are live tiles made in Windows 8?

I've searched the samples, the developer site, the getting started and the enhancing bla bla bla pages. Even using some …

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How to convert SVG file to XAML in windows 8 / WinRT

How i can convert SVG file to XAML in windows 8 / WinRT. I am new to this XAML / SVG environment. So …

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VB6 Running on Windows 8?

Assuming that vb6 does not run on Windows 8 because the VB6 run time libraries are not shipped with Windows 8, would …

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Progress bar with HttpClient

i have a file downloader function: HttpClientHandler aHandler = new HttpClientHandler(); aHandler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Automatic; HttpClient aClient = new HttpClient(aHandler); aClient.…

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Internet Explorer 10 Windows 8 Remove Text Input and Password Action Icons

I am testing a highly-customized web application in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, since it is an up and coming release, …

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How to check if file exists in a Windows Store App?

Is there any other way of checking whether a file exists in a Windows Store app? try { var file = await …

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Is it possible to call an awaitable method in a non async method?

In a windows 8 application in C#/XAML, I sometimes want to call an awaitable method from a non asynchronous method. …

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