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Live tiles and notifications are a key part of a Windows 8 nice app.
Today I struggled with this feature : I (just) wanted to hide the logo of the app on my notifications.
The solution is really easy …
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WinRT : do no display the logo of your app on notifications
Win8 XAML video player : easy globalization / translations
Now that you can easily stream videos from Azure’s blobs, you may want to translate the strings used in the player Framework.
Today, I struggled a lot doing something basic : translating in french the text of the “error view” in the player framework.
As usual, there is an easy solution !
Win8 App : stream videos from a Windows Azure Blob storage
Videos are everywhere and specially in Windows 8 app. Using a Windows Azure’s blob to store them is a good solution and this what we choose in on of the app we build in my company (Infinite Square).
We uploaded the files in the blobs, used a MediaElement to play them but it seems like the video needed to be fully downloaded to be played. It was very frustating since the videos weighted dozen of Mbytes.
The solution is in the Cloud!
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Store the access to files/folders instead of using a picker each time !
In a Metro Win8’s style app you have full access to the local, roaming and temp folder of the app. The app can also access the libraries(documents, videos, pictures, …) if the correct capabilities are declared in the package manifest.
If the app needs to retrieve any other file or folder, it has to ask the user through a picker. This is a one-time UI which gives you access to the desired item only if the user is OK with that.
It can be boring (and it is) for the user to give you access to a file each time you need it. In this post we will discuss the solution proposed by the WinRT Framework.
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