by suleski | Feb 16, 2016 | Technical, Walkthroughs
Just like with all kinds of user permissions on UWP apps, capabilities must be explicitly set through the manifest file. This goes true for using any serial ports too. Normally, the manifest in a UWP project has a list of checkboxes with various capabilities that can...
by suleski | Feb 11, 2016 | Reference, Technical
F12 does not really work in Visual Studio when using it on a XAML file. That includes ResourceDictionaries. Came across this article from Microsoft that covers the list of brushes, colors, fonts, etc that they make available for use.
by suleski | Feb 8, 2016 | Reference, Technical
Yea, that’s a long title to the article. However, the information in this article is super useful when you have to cross the same bridge because there is no clear way to debug. Here’s what’s going on. I am making a UWP app in Visual Studio. I want...
by suleski | Feb 7, 2016 | Reference, Technical, Walkthroughs
UWP apps have a bunch of extra setup options that typical WPF does not have. This article either explains or points to resources that could help. Most, if not all, of the focus will be on the package.appxmanifest file that is generated with defaults upon creating a...
by suleski | Feb 6, 2016 | Reference, Technical
Gone are the days of choosing a location on the hard drive and saving/loading. UWP adopts a more phone or tablet-like approach where the user must give permissions before an app can conduct specific kinds of actions – including looking at specific folders, even...
