I'm building an app for Windows Phone 8 that will be able to show the favicon of a website, but the problem is that, when the image is an icon, I get an exception telling me that the image type isn't supported.
I've tried to convert the image to png in the WCF service that my app uses, but it seems that both Azure and my other hosting service don't support the System.Drawing.Image namespace.
Now I'm looking for a way to convert ico to png in the app, even if it means having a native lib, but I cannot find any lib that would do it.
Does anyone have a solution for this? I don't care if I have to do it in the app or in the service...
If I could make it work with Windows Phone 7 either would be better, but just Phone 8 would solve the issue...
Thank you all in advance!
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I have an application written in VB.NET that I want to move to Win10. It will always be a desktop application, however I would like it to have a start icon / tile in Win 10. Looking around I found this exact question which suggests to create a Metro App (now I believe called Windows App) which launches the desktop app. This is also discussed in this thread. So the questions;
These threads are a little old is the best way in Win10 to give a desktop app a Windows App Tile by using a Windows App as the Launcher for the desktop app?
It appears that in Win10 Microsoft has now allowed non-store apps to be installed in Update Security > SideloadApps. This needs to be enabled to install the App, but does this need to be always enabled. For example what happens after install if the user turns it off, will the app then not start?
For example I see in this link that there are 2 Registry keys to change, basically AllowAllTrustedApps and AllowDevelopmentWithoutDevLicense. Is it possible for my desktop installer to change these keys, install the Windows App (and everything else) and then change the keys back again?
Uninstalling? If I created a Windows App which only launched my desktop app then there is a possibility that the user uninstalls or deletes the Windows App, meaning my desktop app would be orphaned and lost. Any suggestion on solving this?
According to your description, I think what you need is Desktop Bridge. There is no need to use a Windows App as the Launcher for the desktop app.
You can try with Desktop App Converter, with this you can bring your existing desktop apps written for .NET 4.6.1 or Win32 to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
And after converting, you can replace the Assets generated by Desktop App Converter (DAC) automatically to provide custom Tiles/Icons. For more, you can refer to Manually convert your app to UWP using the Desktop Bridge.
I have a windows phone and I am trying to upload the Lumia Living Images taken with Lumia Camera. Looks like there is no option to upload the Living Image directly to OneDrive, but only the static images.
So wondering if there is any api available so that I can create an app to upload the images to OneDrive.
Looked everywhere, at this point of time there is no api to upload Living Images to OneDrive. I guess this will change soon. In the new windows 10 mobile insider preview, they recently added support for gif images support for photos app. Probably at some point when Windows 10 Mobile comes RTM we might have native support for Lumia Living Images.
There is no special API to do this, as the living image portion is tacked inside the JPG file, which is then viewable using the Photos app on Windows 10 (or any other capable client).
Okay, okay - this should be simple, but I just can't figure it out, and Google isn't helping. I just bought a Lumia 635 for developing apps for the Windows store, and I'm using Blend to make my apps in HTML and JS. I've been getting along just fine so far, but it seems that I'm unable to select my WP as a target device.
I've already "unlocked" my windows phone device so that I can use it to develop. I don't believe it's to do with drivers since I would assume Win8 has the drivers inbuild. I'm wondering, is this even possible from within blend? There is a separate program named "Windows Phone App Deployment". Do I have to use this? There seems to be very little concise documentation on this, so I'm assuming it's not possible.
For universal apps, the available deploy targets are based on which project you choose as your startup project. By default the Windows App is the startup project, so it gives you deploy options like Local Machine and Simulator (Windows Tab). Change your startup project to Windows Phone App and you'll see the device option as well as different phone emulators.
I am developing a LOB web app using jquery mobile for Windows tablets. I was going to use the feature that was available on Windows 8 which is to take a picture on the file picker. and send the image in a form. However, since I updated yesterday my computer to win 8.1 there is no Camera App in the file picker anymore. I don't know if there is a way to have it back there. Or if there is another photo app that implements the filepicker contract.
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I have VS2012 windows phone emulator that works just fine. I can develop and debug.
The question is how to upload test content to the emulator? I need a few songs in the emulator media library to debug my application.
You can upload files to your emulator with windows phone power tools.Connect emulator and put file where you want.
Check this link:
Wp Power Tools
unfortunately you cannot do that in the emulator... you need an actual phone...
Can't you just sign into SkyDrive and grab from there?
Also this 7.0 approach to deploying files to the emulator might still work: http://justinangel.net/WindowsPhone7EmulatorAutomation
You may be able to get with your local developer evangelist to get a test device. You can use this app to find out who that is - http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=30db0bac-e968-4e50-8205-30adf19fb5b9.