Showing posts with label Windows8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows8. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2016

"Unable to activate Windows Store app [GUID]. The [EXE Name] process started, but the activation request failed with error 'The app didn't start'." - Make sure your project is on C!

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I spent the day fighting this issue... Had a Xamarin.Forms app, based on the Cross Platform - Blank App (Shared & also Portable), that...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Problems installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2? Like error: 0x800F0906? Check for an already in-place 3.5 Update...

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I thought it interesting and kind of telling that these two different (through very similar, same base, etc) platforms have this same issue....
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Unified Windows Dev Portal, Documentation (and more)

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Building Apps for Windows - New Opportunity: Kinect for Windows + Unified Windows developer portal and documentation and 21 additional payo...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Vectoring in on the perfect set of Windows/Windows Phone app logo's. Just add one SVG and Vector

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David Washington - Create logos for Windows and Windows Phone with one SVG In a previous post, How to make an app logo that doesn’t su...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

LOB help in the WinRT world - "Brokered WinRT Component Project Templates"

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Brokered WinRT Components was one of the hits of Build 2014. These project templates will help you make your own... Visual Studio Gallery ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

MonoGame gets its Samples Game On (One sample, nine platforms)

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Dark Genesis - A new breed of samples for MonoGame MonoGame has always been the quality of the samples currently maintained in the var...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

A long, long time ago... Windows 8 Telnet Tip

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The Windows Club - Watch Star Wars in Windows 8 using an old trick You can unlock an old hidden trick on your Windows 8 computer. Fans...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

iXplain helps you explain, recording your voice, screen and pen (think "Killer Surface Pro app for anyone teaching or explaining about anything")

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Australian Teachers Blog - Creating Tutorials using the Record Voice and Pen App This post follows on with our focus on sharing tools ...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Welcome WindowsAppDev.com!

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The man, the myth, the legend in his own mind... err, I mean... um... time... yeah... Dan Rigby has spun off his daily curated dev news int...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

WAT? I said, Web App Template! (Which helps you Windows Store App your Web Site...)

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JohnShew's Blog - Website to App — The Web App Template Simplifies Windows App Development At BUILD last year, Guggs and I sho...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

AppFeds, your Windows Store web portal, with searching, stats and more

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WinBeta - AppFeds goes live, a new online tool for Windows Store app developers Attention all Windows Store enthusiasts and app develo...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Siena says, "Make Merry with Metro App Building with this Metro App"

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Microsoft's 'Project Siena': A Metro-Style app for creating Windows 8 apps Codenamed "Project Siena,' the "Me...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Does using the Windows 8.x touch/onscreen keyboard in your WPF desktop sound cool to you?

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Brian Lagunas - Showing the Windows 8 Touch keyboard in WPF With the release of Windows 8, the era of touch devices is in full swing....
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Surface RT/Pro/Pro 2 User Guide PDF's available

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Kurt Shintaku's Blog - DOWNLOAD: Surface RT/Pro/Pro 2 User Guides If you’re new to Surface, download your Surface User Guide. Thes...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

We don't need to buy no stink'n holiday ornaments when we can 3D Print them at 3x's the cost (but 10x's the fun!)

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Surface Blog - 3D Printing Holiday Ornaments with Surface It seems like the availability of 3D printers is starting to take off and mo...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Kudos to Kodu's Windows Store Release

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Windows - Kodu Description Kodu lets you create games through a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to te...

What a Date (for when a Windows version is no longer supported...)?

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Mike's Window - Some dates for your calendar.. Support for Windows 7 RTM without service packs ended on April 9, 2013. Be sure...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Being smart when opening SkyDrive Smart Files in Desktop app's/ .Net

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.NET Framework Blog - Opening Files from SkyDrive using .NET Summary First; Summary SkyDrive for Windows 8.1 introduced a new te...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

WindowSMART (The HD/SSD health monitoring, reporting and alerting tools) goes open, yes, open source...

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WindowSMART WindowSMART 2013 and Home Server SMART 2013 are powerful hard disk and solid state disk (SSD) health monitoring, repo...

TechBooks, your Windows 8.1 window to discovering, and reading, MSDN and Patterns & Practices eBooks

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Public Sector Developer Weblog - TechBooks Windows 8.1 app - Discover MSDN and Patterns & Practices eBooks TechBooks is a handy Wi...