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    Building Windows Store apps with C++ (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcement

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      SwapChainPanel focus problem

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      How to set focus on the app (with swapchainpanel) in the snapview? In msdn's swapchainpanel sample (8.1), when I drawing a highlighting stroke in the snapview, the app can not get ...
      Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1738 Views | Created by 風胤 - Monday, October 14, 2013 6:15 AM | Last reply by Rob Caplan [MSFT] - Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:38 PM
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      After Windows 8.1 is released on October 17, this forum will be archived. The URL will stay the same in case you have it bookmarked, but it will be moved to the Archived category. It will be ...
      Discussion | 0 Replies | 1345 Views | Created by Ryan Bolz - Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:49 AM
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      Do we need to recompile and retarget 3rd party C++ component for 8.1, or can we use Windows 8.0 C++ 110 DLL/WinMD component in application that is retargeted in 8.1?

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      We have currently DLL and corresponding WinMD which are compiled in 8.0 platform with C++ runtime 110. Our solution is written in WinJS / JavaScript and we are using those C++ components in 8.0. We ...
      Answered | 2 Replies | 1784 Views | Created by AlexanderXE - Tuesday, October 15, 2013 1:21 PM | Last reply by AlexanderXE - Tuesday, October 15, 2013 11:34 PM
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      Free Chalk Talk on Wednesday, Oct 16: Light up your Apps with Sights and Sounds

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      I want to bring it to your attention that James Dailey, a Microsoft Sr. Escalation Engineer and our resident media guru, is hosting a FREE Chalktalk on the subject of adding media to your ...
      Discussion | 0 Replies | 1199 Views | Created by Matt Small - Monday, October 14, 2013 1:01 PM
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      Problem with ControlChannelTrigger

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      The question is simple. How to create ControlChannelTrigger? I am trying to replicate the sample ControlChannelTrigger StreamSocket sample. In my case, the ...
      Answered | 2 Replies | 1831 Views | Created by Яков - Friday, October 11, 2013 8:57 PM | Last reply by Яков - Saturday, October 12, 2013 9:58 AM
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      Getting FullScreen size

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      I am trying to get the size of the full screen. As per a few forum search, I found that I can use GetSystemMetrics SM_CXSCREEN / SM_CYSCREEN. But when trying to use it, I get a "GetSystemMetrics ...
      Answered | 5 Replies | 1589 Views | Created by Ashish Kumar Goel - Wednesday, October 09, 2013 2:55 PM | Last reply by Ashish Kumar Goel - Friday, October 11, 2013 6:28 AM
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      Tracing network activity on Windows RT: http://aka.ms/K7ct0c

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      New blog: Tracing network activity on Windows RT: http://aka.ms/K7ct0c . #wsdevsol. Follow us @wsdevsol. Windows Store Developer Solutions #WSDevSol ...
      Discussion | 0 Replies | 1112 Views | Created by Prashant H Phadke - Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:24 PM
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      Avoiding crashes when handling files during a share target sequence..

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      So if we try to copy a file provided in a share sequence into a temp directory it works great with freshpaint, but crashes with the below debugger info if we share from the Photos app.  How does ...
      Unanswered | 2 Replies | 1628 Views | Created by Silicon Bender - Sunday, October 06, 2013 9:19 PM | Last reply by Silicon Bender - Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:03 PM
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      The app hangs on start in the Store dll.

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      Hi, the app hangs on start so that it cannot be loaded successfully (Windows 8.1 RTM, x64). I have analyzed the dump of this state and found, that the app waits until the store ...
      Unanswered | 12 Replies | 2891 Views | Created by AnryNetToo - Thursday, September 12, 2013 6:31 AM | Last reply by Doug Stewart -MSFT - Thursday, October 10, 2013 1:35 PM
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      PrintPreview does not shows the Image which source is RenderTargetBitmap in windows 8.1

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      Hi, I am  in need to shows the print Preview of the Uielement as bitmap. But i have faced some problems while proceeding with that. 1.I ...
      Answered | 3 Replies | 1424 Views | Created by ramyathirugnanam - Monday, October 07, 2013 3:56 AM | Last reply by Prashant H Phadke - Wednesday, October 09, 2013 4:55 PM
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      [Windows 8.1] SearchBox focus problem

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      Dear all : I have using VS2013 to develop the windows 8.1 store app. But when I insert the new control "SearchBox", it will always get focus when I ...
      Unanswered | 6 Replies | 2844 Views | Created by 風胤 - Monday, August 05, 2013 3:34 AM | Last reply by Matt Small - Monday, October 07, 2013 2:52 PM
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      App analysis

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      Hey there, I've an app written on VS12. I have to make it compatible with win8.1. I am just in to this and would like to know how to analyze an app from start on ...
      Unanswered | 27 Replies | 2727 Views | Created by Minu7 - Friday, September 13, 2013 2:56 AM | Last reply by Rob Caplan [MSFT] - Thursday, October 03, 2013 7:39 PM
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      Layoutaware page - Moving apps from Win8 to Win8.1

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      Hi there, While reading articles on upgrading Win8 metro apps to Win8.1, somewhere i read this. "Layoutaware page causes apps to ...
      Answered | 9 Replies | 2996 Views | Created by Minu7 - Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:05 AM | Last reply by - Wednesday, October 02, 2013 3:30 AM
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      Can I Dev Apps for Windows 8.1 tablets with non-Microsoft tools?

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      I use non-Microsoft development tools. I can create Win32 Metro style apps with touch screen tiles for Windows 8.1. Will I be able to sell that through the Windows App Store for the new Surface ...
      Unanswered | 3 Replies | 1723 Views | Created by Csharp_256 - Friday, September 27, 2013 9:38 PM | Last reply by Rob Caplan [MSFT] - Saturday, September 28, 2013 1:50 AM
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      WACK 3.0 Supported API test failed

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      We are migrating our app to Windows 8.1 and unfortunately our app failed to pass WACK 3.0 in supported API test. Since we have submited 11 releases of our app so far to ...
      Answered | 19 Replies | 5010 Views | Created by Leonard - Monday, September 09, 2013 3:30 PM | Last reply by Jeff Sanders - Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:41 PM
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      The swapchain resize function will crash when the app resume from sleep

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      ResizeBuffers(2,....); } Can some one help me? Thanks. 風胤
      Unanswered | 3 Replies | 1744 Views | Created by 風胤 - Monday, September 23, 2013 6:50 AM | Last reply by Jeff Sanders - Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:39 PM
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      retrieving and setting value for progress bar

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      This sounds really stupid I know, but I have this issue where trying to retrieve value of progress bar is throwing an WrongThreadException. I have setup a simple ...
      Answered | 1 Replies | 1328 Views | Created by Ravindra Kumar KS - Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:17 AM | Last reply by Ravindra Kumar KS - Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:04 AM
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      How to restrict app in landscape mode?

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      settings -> Change PC settings -> PC and Device -> Display -> Orientation" to portrait, then launch my app. My app will be launch in portrait mode.  Another case is ...
      Answered | 4 Replies | 2640 Views | Created by Alvin Twitch - Friday, September 13, 2013 5:52 AM | Last reply by Rob Caplan [MSFT] - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:50 AM
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      Why is DLL built in debug mode required to start an app in debug mode?

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      We have implemented a library that have been used by out clients in their Windows 8.0 store applications. We build the library in release mode and distribute it in DLL form (a .lib file and a ...
      Answered | 2 Replies | 2624 Views | Created by Leonard - Thursday, September 12, 2013 1:59 PM | Last reply by Leonard - Friday, September 13, 2013 4:14 AM
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      Windows 8.1 RTM and Visual Studio 2013 RC information

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      For detailed information regarding Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows 8.1 RTM, please refer to the following links: Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows Server ...
      Discussion | 1 Replies | 1350 Views | Created by Prashant H Phadke - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:26 PM | Last reply by Doug Stewart -MSFT - Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:26 AM
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      Ryan Bolz Monday, October 14, 2013 5:23 PM

      After Windows 8.1 is released on October 17, this forum will be archived. The URL will stay the same in case you have it bookmarked, but it will be moved to the Archived category. It will be made read-only so you can still search for questions/answers, but not create new threads or posts. Instead, please contribute to the community by asking and answering Windows Store apps questions in the applicable forum in the Windows Store apps category. Please respond to this thread if you have any questions about this.

       

      Thank you.

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      Ryan Bolz Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:03 PM

      Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store apps with C++ (Windows 8.1 Preview)

      forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.

      Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:

      http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Page/faq#faqCodeConduct

      Thank you,

      Microsoft Communities Team


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