Windows Store app development setup

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...

File operations with UWP

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...

Keeping the GUI responsive

Passing data from worker threads to the UI thread is always a chore no matter which programming language is used.  Code can be a bear to develop, complex to read, and difficult to maintain.  Race conditions, debugging, security access, etc – it’s all a...

Persisting data for UWP

UWP apps are funny.  Unlike regular desktop apps, it’s not always obvious how to store and retrieve data.  There are two cases I’m talking about: There is no Settings GUI in UWP apps like there was in WPF apps.  Previously, an Engineer could right-click on...