Category: Windows Universal Apps

Where the individual app images (Assets) are displayed

Unless I state the scale values, I mean 100, 125, 150, 200, 400. For targetsize, the values are 256, 48, 24, 16. Square71x71Logo.png – Start menu Square150x150Logo.png – Start menu Wide310x150Logo.png – Start menu Square310x310Logo.png – Start menu Square44x44Logo.png All basic scales – Start menu All basic targetsizes – the icon of a file that …

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GridView, ListView and ListBox – What Each of These Controls Is Good For

In this sample I will explore the capabilities of these 3 controls. In each one that supports GridView inheritance: Object -> DependencyObject -> UIElement -> FrameworkElement -> Control -> ItemsControl -> Selector -> ListViewBase, ISemanticZoomInformation -> GridView ListView inheritance: Object -> DependencyObject -> UIElement -> FrameworkElement -> Control -> ItemsControl -> Selector -> ListViewBase, ISemanticZoomInformation …

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How to fix the “Value does not fall within the expected range” exception when adding a child to a Control that has already been used

It is very simple. I went through several threads on various forums and did not find any code in any of them, and since this error is very common, I decided to write a workaround on my blog. It applies to WPF and Windows Store apps, and probably also to Silverlight and Windows Phone. To …

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How to Localize Windows 8 (Store Apps) Applications from Czech to English with the Multilingual App Toolkit While Keeping Czech

This article describes working with Multilingual App Toolkit 3, which is no longer supported or developed. A guide to its successor, version 4, which is under active development, can be found here: 👻 There used to be data here. Now it is just an empty lot on the internet. Download and install MAT: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows Go …

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