Alternative to BugSense for Windows Phone - windows

It seems that BugSense is abandoned for Windows Phone. I still see the statistics in my dashboard, but can't find SDK for Windows Phone in docs(thats why i thought that BugSense for windows is closed).
Are there any good alternative for viewing error/trace reportings with some dashbord, showing internal information without needing me to mark it for logging?

I'd encourage you to check out Crittercism. It's actively being developed and supported (last update was about a week ago):
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Crittercism
http://docs.crittercism.com/windows/windows.html

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Remote Desktop for Mac - issue with JavaFX app - PDFBOX

I have written a JavaFX app running on Windows 10 machine in the office which has problems showing (painting/rendering) certain embedded controls such as a Pane with PdfBox when I connect to it with Remote Desktop for Mac. It shows only a black screen in the app instead of the pdf document.
When I connect using RDP from my Windows 10 machine at home to my Windows 10 machine at work, the app works just fine (the pdf is shown in the app).
I have the same problems using AnyDesk and Teamviewer.
The app only shows PDFs properly using a connection from Windows 10 to Windows 10 with Microsoft RDP.
It might be a JavaFX issue. Similar issues are described here (although not 100% identical):
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8239589
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8229394
However, since I guess Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac is using the same technology as the Windows Desktop client, I would have expected it to work fine.
I have a Mac Mini M1 running the latest OS (Monterey) at the time of writing this post. I am also using the latest Remote Desktop client for Mac.
This problem is not new and was also present in older releases.
I have tried to play around with screen resolutions, both on Host and Client but nothing good came out of those tests.
Disabled also hardware acceleration in Remote Desktop for Mac preferences but it didn't change anything.
The machine at the office has the following specs (which I cannot change nor update)
Edizione Windows 10 Pro
Versione 20H2
Data installazione: ‎10/‎09/‎2021
Build sistema operativo 19042.1415
Esperienza Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0
Anyone else who has seen this problem and perhaps resolved it?
Could it be a bug in either PdfBox or Remote Desktop for Mac?
Except for the above issue, the Remote Desktop Client for Mac is working great (not lagging as TeamViewer or AnyDesk) and the user experience is phenomenal.
PS: While this might be considered a programming question (since I wrote the app with JavaFX) but it might be better to post on another forum? If yes, which one? On the other hand, many similar posts (look at the suggested thread on the right) have been upvoted despite not dealing with programming issues.
Thanks.
How do you use PDFBox? I ask because this is not a JavaFX component. If you use a SwingNode for that it might be interesting to try one of my two PDFViewer demos here and see whether the problem persists.
https://github.com/mipastgt/JFXToolsAndDemos#awtimage
The difference is in how I do the rendering and maybe that makes a difference for your use-case too. But of course this is just a wild guess and I can't promise anything.

Caller Display Possible in Windows Phone 7?

I want to make a contact manager as I think the Windows 7 Phone is lacking a bit. I got to thinking though about a potential problem.
Right now if someone calls me and I have them in my contacts list their name will show up and I will know who they are.
I am wondering if I will be able to hook up the caller id to check out my contact list as well to see if the phone number exists in the phone.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
This is not possible neither in Windows Phone 7.x nor in Windows Phone 8. You cannot write service apps i.e. the applications that stay in the background and watch for some system events, nor replace built in applications or responses.
Sadly, this is a great limitation currently and I hope it will be overturned in the next version of OS.

get a list of all installed application on windows 7 phone

is it possible to get a list of all installed application on windows 7 phone?
Till now I didn't find any API that I can use.
I know this is possible on android , and it seams weird that you cant do it on windows windows 7 phone.
This is not possible.
There is a personal data information issue with this information being available. i.e. You could infer/gather information about people based on the apps they have installed. Users may not want you to know what apps they have installed for personal or other reasons.
If you want to track whether a users has installed any of your other apps (maybe so you don't cross promote apps they've already installed) you will have to do this by having each app report it's usage (installation) to a central server along with the device/user id (ANID) and then determine whcih apps have been installed.

Non-feature locked emulator

I have just found out that the WP7 emulator is feature locked when I was asked to look into sending emails from my app. I know it is possible to access an unlocked ROM but as this isn't sanctioned it is not something I can do. I also do not have a WP7 phone and cannot get hold of one ye as there isn't the funding as yet to buy one.
So when MS release the full release of the SDK will it remain feature locked or will it act more like a proper phone at this point?
I wrote about "unlocking" the latest emulator image in another Question. You cannot unlock it, but you can access most of the internal features / programs. Take a look at this answer: Unlock Windows Phone 7 emulator
Prior to NoDo (and I think perhaps NoDo - don't remember for sure), it was possible, as there was a leaked image. I never did get it to work properly, though. But that is irrelevant now, as with the Mango updates (all of the betas and the RC), it no longer works, and there is no unlocked emulator image out there.
There is unlikley to be a "fully featured" emulator released.
You will need to get an actual device for testing so I'd wait on testing this functionality until you have a device. If you know someone who has one you could borrow there's or send them the XAP and ask them to test for you.

Windows phone7 emulator requires constant refresh

I have the tools installed for windows phone 7 development.
But, when I run the any of the sample apps I have to manually refresh my emulator's app window to see any changes.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Or maybe a setting is wrong?
Thanks
I've got it on every machine I've tried- but they all have various Nvidia cards (desktop and mobile).
When I posted about this on the wp7 forums, they talked about wdm 1.1 (which I've got) and so far I have no fix.
My machines are all 64bit, so I'm wondering if this isn't some issue with them or the nvidia drivers- but I don't experience any other problems with the drivers outside of the emulator.
I think we're stuck for a while anyway...

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