October 6, 2012 – Writing My First W8 App, an Alarm Clock

Today I got up at roughly the same time as yesterday – I woke up around 12 or 1. I spent a very long time fiddling with “trivial stuff” like playing a song in mp3 or wma using MediaElement. You can find an article on how to do it here 👻 This link is now just a fossil from the days when people still trusted the internet.

I was happy because it looked like I would manage to finish the alarm clock today. Later I ran into a problem: when I was in a thread created by asynchronous methods, I could not add new items to the ListBox. I will have to call it through Dispatcher.RunAsync() every time I call an asynchronous method that does not return a Task<>, so I will not be able to use the await keyword.

At 9 PM I posted happy news on @sunamoDevProg that the app was 98% done. The remaining 2% was just saving and loading the playlist. In the evening I then made images for the app – a logo in 3 different sizes and a splash screen. And even later that night I shaved and had a bath.

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