Preface No, this is not the first sample to be found in the internet on this topic. Anyway, I decided to add another one because the two I was looking at (see links below) gave good ideas, but did not satisfied me at all. Changes to App.xaml.cs To begin, new …
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WPF does not contain a OpenFileDialog or FileBrowserDialog. Nevertheless, I needed them in a WPF application. Searching the web, I found several approaches. One published on GitHub (https://github.com/tillias/wpFolderPicker) implements a new control for folder browsing. But I wanted a “cheap” solution. And found the starting point here: WPF OpenFileDialog and …
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Preface According to the documentation, AdControls are hosted in a WebView control. For some reasons I was not able to figure out, WebView controls do not slide in when a page loads (or pop in, whatever the correct wording is). This means that your AdControl will not slide in neither. …
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Preface The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 allows developers to show ads in their apps. When you look at the walkthrough for putting ads in an app using XAML/C#, you can see that you have to set the ApplicationId and AdUnitId property of each AdControl control in your app. …
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Make the Item Visible One very helpful feature of Visual Studio is the ability to create custom item or project templates. I’m using this feature for years to get a pre-formatted C# class, containing several regions. In VS 2012, one can set the directory where these custom item templates are …
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Preface I know, the concept of app.config files is not part of Windows Store App development. The docs and postings say that one should use local or roaming settings. But I needed something to pass environment depending initial data to the app. One scenario I can think of is the …
Microsoft has updated the list of possible advertising test modes. So I updated the Test Mode Sample as well. You can find the latest version in this post.
Microsoft offers a very simple way to show advertising in Windows Store apps. A starting point is adsinapps.microsoft.com. The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 can be found here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506371%28v=msads.10%29.aspx. The SDK docs lead you to a document, listing all the possible advertising test modes with their appropriate test values: …
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I can’t recall if it was right after the initial installation, or if I hit any whatever key-combination to hide it, or closed it by mistake: The UI toolbox in my Visual Studio 2012 was not visible. First, I did not care because I didn’t needed it. But the point …
With the introduction of .NET 4.5 and MVC 4, some changes to Membership and Authorization came along. To keep this posting as short as possible, I will just list the findings and refer to some postings I read. 1. Web Site Administration Tool is gone, and there is no replacement …
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