I am developing an application. I downloaded the Windows phone toolkit for using the phonetextbox. When i try to create a phone text box control, the control is not rendering in the XAML designer. But it is running in the emulator or phone. I am using Visual studio 2013 community edition
What might be the problem?
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Where disappeared XAML designer for Universal Windows app in Visual Studio 2015 Update1?
It is working for wpf and window 8.1 apps and XAML designer is enabled in Tools->Option->XAML Designer
Change the Target Version to (10.0; Bulid 10240)
See the notification asking to update Windows -
I was having the same problem. Updated windows from windows update as instructed by the VS2015 notification and now it is fixed.
I assume that you are using VS2015 on an operating system prior to Windows 10. According to a post on Microsoft Connect, this behaviour is by design. When you're using VS2015 on Windows 8.1, there is no support for design view, you have to upgrade to Windows 10 instead:
"If you are developing Windows 10 applications, this is by design since the designer requires Windows 10 in-order to show the design surface for UWP applications since we run application code. In Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, you will only get intelliSense. If you want full support for the design tools, you need to develop the application on Windows 10."
I need to create a Windows Phone 8.0 as well as Windows Phone 8.1 app from already developed IBM Worklight(6.1) Project. Is there any document that elucidates end to end solution to do that? Also could you please elucidate tools/plugins required?
To your existing MFP/Worklight project, you can add the Windows Phone environment. This will generate the Visual Studio project for Windows Phone. The same app can be run on Windows Phone 8.0 and 8.1.
The following getting started modules give you an overview of whats needed to develop a Windows Phone app.
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/docs/v610/01_07_Setting_up_your_Windows_Phone_8_development_environment.pdf
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/docs/v610/03_11_General_information_when_developing_for_Windows_Phone_8.pdf
I have added windows phone toolkit using nuget package in windows 8.1 universal app project. it is added successfully, but I can't see reference assemblies in the project and neither i can add reference in page xaml to use toolkit controls. How can use windows toolkit in universal windows phone 8.1 app?
The Windows Phone Toolkit is currently (26th of April, 2014) only supporting Silverlight 8.0 / 8.1 applications.
If you wish to re-use components, you would need to download the source from CodePlex and port the individual components to a Windows Runtime library project. However, this might require a (very) large portion of work.
Can you make me clear which delevoper platform I can use for delevop Apps for Windows RT (not full Windows 8!). Are some projects templates in Visual Studio which are allowed me to use only WinRt without .NEt during my development on c# and xaml.
The Visual C#/VB/C++/JS|Windows Store app templates (Blank App, Grid App, Split App) are for apps that will run on Windows RT and any other Windows 8. You can use .NET on Windows RT, but if you don't want to - you can also use C++ or JavaScript. Note that Windows RT is the SKU of Windows that runs on ARM tablets, while WinRT or Windows Runtime is the new generation development platform for Windows. Also note, that while most parts of Windows Runtime can be used only by Windows Store apps, some can be used by both Windows Store and Desktop apps, some can only be used by desktop apps and I think some parts of the old WinAPI/Win32 might be accessible to Windows Store apps too. MSDN documentation states which APIs apply to which types of applications.
You can use Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8.0.
More info on msdn.
The project templates are available under Windows Store category under Visual C# in New Project in Visual Studio.
My Visual Studio can't seem to build any of the Metro Sample applications. As I've never really used this IDE before, I've pretty much given up.
Can anyone direct me to a sample application that is already built and preferably some source code along with it for reference?
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I have a copy of Windows 7 AND 8. However I can't seem to build Microsoft's File Access Sample in my copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. I'm trying to test one of my Win7 applications in Metro mode of Win8 (the application may be called for use during a user's session in a given Metro app).
Metro Apps (that is, applicatons based on WinRT in Windows 8) will not run in Visual Studio 2010. You need Visual Studio 11 express (that comes on the Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64) or Visual Studio 11 developer preview (available for MSDN subscribers)).
According to Getting started with Windows Metro style app development, "To begin building Metro style apps for Windows, you must first download and install the Windows Developer Preview, which includes Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview and the Windows SDK for Metro style Apps."
So I think you'll have to do metro-style development from the Windows 8 Preview for now. That website also has some hello world type stuff and general direction on getting started.
You probably can build Metro Style Apps in Visual Studio 2010. Basically Metro is a special type of design where focus is more on texts than pictures. Metro means " Text before Chrome".
If you can build such metro controls ( or you can copy some from any windows 8 copy) you probably will be able to build very basic Metro style apps , but if u wish to build something advanced then i would suggest better switch to Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate .