Sugestions for the Multilingual App Toolkit
The Multilingual App Toolkit is a nice start, but I have some suggestions to make it even easier:Automatically create a multilanguage version from a normal app.Provide a tool to edit or at least export...
View ArticleAny crash information stored on device?
Is there any crash data available on device that users can send to help in debugging?
View ArticleBlend fails to open HTML5 project
Hello,I am getting this error message after creating an HTML5 + Javascript Windows store projectAn error was encountered while registering the app manifest:The type initializer for...
View ArticleXAML Designer hangs while loading (C#, Windows App Store)
I am currently running Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate with Update 1 installed.Whenever I try to start a new Windows App Store Project and navigate to XAML designer view,VS hangs forever.However, this...
View ArticleCan't create App package
Hi, since recently I get this error when trying to create app package from Visual Studio Express: --------------------------- Windows App Certification Kit --------------------------- The Windows App...
View ArticleLocal deployment to Surface fails with error code: 0x80073CF9/0x8007065E
Hi,I've developed a Windows Store app which is currently in the store. Now I've got my new Surface and want to test a new version of the app on the Surface before I ship it to the Store. So I've build...
View ArticleWindows 8 SDK Standalone Installer
Please can someone tell me where and how I can download the Windows 8 SDK for offline install. The online installer is a bit frustrating if you have to download it for 3 machines. I am also sitting...
View ArticleDesign view is unavailable for x64 and ARM target platforms
I've started seeing this message when I set the Configuration Manager to build for the ARM platform. The error output also reports that LayoutAwarePage does not existing in the namespace...
View Article'LayoutAwarePage" does not exist in the namespace "using:AppName.Common -How...
I am not sure this problem is related to the selection of the platform or any configuration . I am on Win32 for a C++ project and never changed any configurations.I am seeing the same problem in all of...
View ArticleUsing Windows App Cert Kit for testing the desktop app is going over 24...
Hi. I'm trying to validate my desktop application with ACK tests on Windows 8. I start the Windows Certification Kit 2.2, choose Validate Desktop App, then choose a build with my app and option "Per...
View ArticleInvalid Markup Error in VS 2012 with custom generic class
I'm using VS 2012 on Win8 Release Preview. I get the following errors whenever I open the below XAML file. The Designer window displays the error "Invalid Markup". And the error list contains the...
View ArticleHow can I simulate audio buttons.
One of my apps is failing as "app failed to correctly respond to at least one of the play, pause, or play/pause events in a timely fashion,".On one of my dev machines I have a play/pause button so I...
View ArticleVS 2012 Update 1 bug
HiI want to report nasty bug with Display Name localization in VS 2012 Update 1. It was working perfectly before Update 1 but now changing Display Name only affects Application/VisualElements tag,...
View ArticleProblems Getting Developer License in Visual Studio Express 2012 RC for...
I am on a Brand New Windows 8 Virtual Machine that has the latest Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 RC installed and everything seems to work okay. Except every time I try to get the Developer...
View ArticleVS2012 item template
Hi,has anybody else noticed your custom item templates wont show up when you go to add=>New Item.Or is there a trick :p?Thx
View ArticleMetro App gridview datasource from Azure database (Beginner)
Hi,I go to new>project>split app. It creates me a demo split app with a gridview as main page.Now I just bought a Windows Azure account. I have a database and a table inside it with 3 columns. I...
View ArticleInconsistency in "Represent your app to Live Connect users" view
After configuration data are being persisted in "Represent your app to Live Connect users" view of "Push notifications and Live Connect services info" module (by clicking on "Save" button), there is no...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 Designer crashes with System.IO.PathTooLongException
Hi, I'm a student from Denmark trying to write my first WinRT app with Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate (Dreamspark license). I've encountered this error several times now, seemingly for no apparent reason....
View ArticleWe Couldn't get your developer license for windows8 in Visual Studio...
I tried many times to get the license key. But I am getting the error as given below:We couldn't get your developer license for Windows 8 Error 0x803D0000: The input data was not in the expected format...
View ArticleHow can I tell msbuild to honor AppxAutoIncrementPackageRevision == true?
In vs 2012 professional, I right-clicked on my project, chose store > create app packages... Then in the wizard I chose:"Do you want to build packages to upload to the Windows Store?" > No Output...
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