Disable screen capture for your Universal Windows apps 3. August 2015 Shawn Windows Apps (0) If you are concerned about security within your apps, you will want to disable the ability to taker screenshots of your app. This was a feature introduced in Windows Phone 8 as well as Windows Store 8.1 apps. With universal apps, you can now disable screenshots with the same one line of code Windows.UI.ViewManagement.ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().IsScreenCaptureEnabled = false; This allows the application itself to not allow screenshots. So if you are running on desktop and you take a screen shot, the application will show black. Here is what it looks like on desktop with screen capture enabled Here is what it looks like on desktop with screen capture disabled I’m not able to get the phone emulator to take a physical screenshot (just the emulator screenshot) so I cannot show this. And until a new phone build comes out I cannot show it.
Setting the device wallpaper in Windows Universal Apps 29. July 2015 Shawn Universal Apps (0) Windows 10 launched today and with it comes a new SDK for building “Universal Apps”. This new SDK comes with a lot of new functionality. One of those pieces is a new way to set the wallpaper of a device. This new API is available on the new UserProfilePersonalizationSettings class. This class is used for setting the lockscreen, and the device wallpaper. The new UserProfilePersonalizationSettings class has a TrySetWallpaperImageAsync method that accepts any local StorageFile (I have not been able to set the wallpaper using the FileOpenPicker). This means you can save an image to the local or roaming folders, or use an existing image packaged with your app. var file = await StorageFile.GetFileFromApplicationUriAsync(new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/AwesomeWallpaper.jpg"));await Windows.System.UserProfile.UserProfilePersonalizationSettings.Current.TrySetWallpaperImageAsync(file); This example uses a file packaged with the app in the Assets folder. You should check if the device has the abi... [More]
Setting the lockscreen in Windows Universal Apps 29. July 2015 Shawn Universal Apps (0) Set lockscreen within Windows 10 universal apps [More]
In depth look at the Windows RelativePanel 9. April 2015 Shawn Windows Apps (0) Windows 10 released a lot of new functionality and controls. One of the new controls is the RelativePanel. This panel takes the great Grid panel and cranks it up to 11. The Grid panel gives a lot of control with how you layout controls. You specify rows and columns of various heights and widths and then place controls within the grid and define the row and/or column through attached properties. Instead of rows/columns, the RelativePanel places controls relative to itself or other controls within it. Just like the Grid, the RelativePanel uses 16 different attached properties to define where elements should be placed. In fact, the RelativePanel has no additional properties or methods from a regular Panel. It only contains attached properties. Aligning relative to the RelativePanel The relative panel does not respect controls with traditional alignment via HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment. Instead there are six new properties to define how an element should align relative to th... [More]
Creating different page views for Windows Apps based on the device 2. April 2015 Shawn Windows Apps (0) Windows 10 has released the new Universal App Platform that brings new “Windows Apps”. These apps offer the ability to use one Visual Studio project to create apps for any platform/device. This offers the ability to have one XAML file for all of your views. This works much like the web does with responsive design. If you want your page to look different on a smaller device you can change the layout based on the width of the device. You can do this with StateTriggers. <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> <VisualStateGroup> <VisualState x:Name="wideState"> <VisualState.StateTriggers> <AdaptiveTrigger MinWindowWidth="600"/> </VisualState.StateTriggers> <VisualState.Setters> <Setter Target="MyTextBlock.Text" Value="BIGGER!" /> </VisualState.Setters> </VisualState> <VisualState x:Name="narrowState"> <VisualState... [More]
Enabling and tracking location in Windows Apps 26. March 2015 Shawn Windows Apps (0) Track geo location within Windows 10 Apps (preview) [More]