I have created a Universal app for Windows 10. I use Visual Studio 2015 RTM and in Manifest > Visual Effects, I placed my icon in the 24x24 square box. It is transparent, I can see it in Photoshop and also in Visual Studio, in Visual Effects page. The background in manifest is also set to "transparent".
When I run the app, the icon appears in the Windows task bar, but it is not transparent and it used the blue color as background.
Make sure when you click that the picture in the 44x44 logo for 24x24 size it says:
Note: The tile background color is shown through transparent sections of this image.
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It's also a good idea to follow this File name format if you don't want the system to put a backplate on your icon:
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I see this control (below photo) on Windows 8.1 Store app. It appears when have multi images, tap left and right button (red borders in photo) to navigate between images.
So my question is: Name of this control and link to tutorial?
Its FlipView, here is the docs from MS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/controls-and-patterns/flipview
I'm starting with developing on Windows phone 8.1. I've been working with the different image assets for logos and tiles, but have not been able to identify the one that is displayed when you go to the list of open apps (i.e. pressing and holding the back key). In this view there is a logo of the app in the bottom-left corner that I don't know from where it comes. I'm trying to change the background color of it, but is none of the ones define in the manifest. I've seen apps that have this image with a specific background color (i.e. not transparent) like the one in the screenshot below. So, there must be a way to do it, but I'm not able to find where or how.
That would be the application icon you set in your WMAppManifest.xml. You can find this under your project's Properties folder. You can set icon from the UI (App icon) or by editing the XML block itself.
<IconPath IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">Assets\ApplicationIcon.png</IconPath>
This is the same icon that is shown in phone's app list. If image has transparency, phone's selected accent color is shown as "background". If not, well.. then it won't be transparent :).
I created a transparent splash screen in VB.Net 2012; it looks great, except one problem that it appear inside a white box for few seconds before it become transparent. The way I created it is by using *.bmp image with pink color background, then I use the pink as transparent in the form properties. I am not sure why this ugly white box appears.
Any help/opinion is appreciated.
The issue is with WinForms not WPF;
There is no fancy code required to be posted as all what I've done is selected Form2 as per the screen shot below.
You haven't specified whether your app is WPF or WinForms.
If your app is using WPF this may be related to a known issue:
WPF Window with black background flashes white when first shown
There is a related Stack Overflow answer with some suggested workarounds.
I am developing a metro application using visual studio 2012. I am trying to get an AppBar in my metro application. How do I do that?
There are a LOT of samples in the MSDN Dev Center, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsapps. One of them is specifically an AppBar sample, and the description reads:
This sample demonstrates how to use the AppBar control to present
navigation, commands, and tools to users.
The app bar is hidden by default and appears when users swipe a finger
from the top or bottom edge of the screen. It covers the content of
the app and can be dismissed by the user with an edge swipe, or by
interacting with the app. This sample shows how to add an app bar,
customize the app bar, and control the app bar. Also, it shows how to
use sticky app bars and global app bars.
I think this will get you started.
I created a live tile, but I don't know how to change the background color. This is Windows 8 and C#.
The Background color of the Tile is defined in manifest configuration of your app.
You can change the color of your tile in Package.appxmanifest "Tile>Background Color"