Tag Archives: Windows runtime
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #17 – Detect c...
This article will demonstrate in simple steps in how to detect the current location of the use from a Windows Phone 8.1 App. Retrieving the current location in Windows Phone 8.1 is similar to retriev...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #15 – Get scre...
There are times when you want to get the windows phone device’s screen resolution programmatically from your Windows Phone 8.1 App . In some of my previous blog posts , i explained about the differen...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #10 – Launch R...
If you want to allow the user to launch the Windows Phone Store and display the rate and review page for the current app , you can use the Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync method by passing the...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #8 – Register ...
When you download and install the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK and run Visual Studio for the first time , you will be prompted to get a developer license . This lets you to develop and test the Windows Stor...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #7 – Thread.Sl...
In the earlier version of Windows Phone , you had the option of using Thread.Sleep which can be used to make a function to wait for specific time . It suspends the current thread for the specified t...
Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #3 – How to ma...
In the Windows Phone 8.0 and earlier versions , the developers could use the PhoneCallTask which allows the use to make a phone call. If you are targeting Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight App model , th...