In this blog post I will show you how to create a 2D #XAML app which will be able to display a 3D view (holograms) and then how to go back to the 2D view…
XAML UI
#Windows app bundles and the ‘Subsequent submissions must continue to contain a Windows Phone 8.1 appxbundle’ error message
Some days ago when uploading my Windows app to the Store, I’ve got a strange error message : “A previous submission for this app was released with a Windows Phone 8.1 appxbundle. Subsequent submissions must…
#WinRT : how to easily get the dominant color of a picture
“Content before Chrome” is the Leitmotif of Windows Store Apps. You’ll usually end up using a lot of images in your app and getting the dominant color of a picture may actually be useful. My…
Windows 8.1 #XAML new theme management in your Windows Store Apps
Did you remember Windows 8 ? The theme of your app was set once at the launch and you could’nt change it dyamically or set once by control. This was really annoying in some case…
[WinRT] How to get the language code actually used to resolve a resource
I am working on an app with a lot of different languages. This is really great because there is a lot more chances that the user get the app in its spoken tongue. You can…
Win8/XAML : how to create a TextBlock with clickables hyperlinks in it
Xaml is really powerful and you can build nearly any user interface you want with it. However it can be hard sometimes and in this post I will describe how you can create something I…
Win8 XAML App : how to debug the javascript in a WebView !
When you build a Windows 8 Xaml app you sometimes need to put a WebView in it and run some custom Javascript in the loaded html page. I recommend you to read this MSDN blog…
[Win8] The cached file updater contract or how to make more useful the File Save Picker contract
As you can read on MSDN, there is in fact a lot of contracts available for a Windows 8 app. Today, I want to describe one which is very useful for the Dropbox client I…
WinRT : do no display the logo of your app on notifications
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…
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…
My book (french)
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