Can somebody help me with a little issue about Universal Windows Apps?
I'm trying to develop a small universal app that calls an .asmx web service. I can add the Service Reference successfully to the Windows 8.1 project and reference it from the classes in the shared project. When I compile and run the application, it runs without problem.
But when I switch to Windows Phone 8.1, I'm unable to compile and I get an error telling me that the classes generated by the service reference in the Windows 8.1 Project are not accessible from the Shared Project.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
FInally I solved this unanswered question. It seems in Universal Windows Apps is not possible to use SOAP Web Services as Service References, so I used REST Services instead.
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I have a requirement to develop a SDK(kind of class library) for Windows app supporting Windows 8.1 and Windows universal apps. Please suggest me the right type to choose for this.
At first I was thinking to use Portable class library supporting these 2 platforms but later on some researching found out Windows Runtime component(Universal apps) and read that using this would support app build using non managed code too(C++, JavaScript) which kind of seemed good for me. but when I try to refer this into a windows 8.1 app it says not supported, Do I need to build a separate windows runtime component again for this(I see Windows runtime component(portable for universal windows 8.1 template)?
Is there any chance I could build this without the need of having 2 projects for different platforms?
I've been able to successfully use a WinRT component targeting Windows 8.1 in a Windows 10 app before, but it might have changed and YMMV. Try it out.
I'm trying to deploy a Windows Phone 8.1 Application via Enterprise distribution.
For this I'm using BuildMDILAPPX.ps1to sign the application with a symantec certificate.
The Application works as expected when deployed via Visual Studio or via Application Distribution.
However once I try to install the application generated by BuildMDILAPPX.ps1 certain functionality (Database with SQLite) seems to produce an error, as the application behaves differently (e.g. stuck on screen).
Is there a way to debug this application via Visual Studio, or any other way?
Or is it possible to deactivate optimization via BuildMDILAPPX.ps1
Thanks for your help,
Dominik
I solved it by using Toast Notifications to display which line was executed or to display variables.
Not a clean solution, but it worked.
I ported my windows phone7 application to windows 8(just copy paste the xaml and c# code in visual studio 2012->new->project->WPFApplication) and made changes in UI sizes.The problem is the .exe file(after building wpf application) runs only in the system with .NET framework installed.I want to run my application in all system running windows(7(32/64),xp,vista).I am newbie to windows application basically wp7 developer.Thank u.
If you really want to port a windos phone 7 app to windows 8, You should go through the following resources. They provide most of the information.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465136.aspx
http://leventoz.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/moving-a-windows-phone-app-to-windows-8-a-case-study-part-1/
http://leventoz.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/moving-a-windows-phone-app-to-windows-8-a-case-study-part-2/
WPF is a part of the .NET framework, so you can't write a WPF application that can run without the framework on the machine.
If you want to create a binary that run on the classic windows runtime you can't use WPF/C#/VB etc.
Best thing if you want to port your Windows Phone app to Windows 8 is to create a Microsoft Store app, File > New Project > Blank App in VS2012. The app won't run on anything except Windows 8 but the Microsoft Store for Windows 8 is probably the best place to have your app if it's ported from Windows Phone.
Migrating application to WP7 is not that easy as it sounds. There is lot of different APIs and also limited async/await in WP7 when using this extension.
I would probably recommend starting with this MSDN article. It describes basic problems and challenges and also contains useful namespace and API mapping:
Migrate/port a Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows Store app
I have created an XE2 FireMonkey application which needs to run on an iPad. I am familiar with exporting to XCode and recompiling on the Mac machine. This all works quite fine.
The problem however is when I want to connect to an existing web service. Using the WSDL Import, I can create the necessary file and the functionality from my web service works as expected. This only works in a Windows environment though as the file created by the WSDL Import uses the "InvokeRegistry" which is Windows specific.
How can I connect to a web service in FireMonkey in a way which will compile on XCode and work in an iOS environment?
The Web Service Toolkit of Free Pascal is one option. According to this forum post, iOS can be used as target platform.
The toolkit includes a WSDL importer wizard, also available as command line tool ("ws_helper").
"Web Service Toolkit” is a web services package for FPC, Lazarus and
Delphi; “Web Service Toolkit” is meant to ease web services
consumption and creation by FPC, Lazarus and Delphi users.
It seems that one cannot have data connectivity in mobile iOS applications without various forms of "hacking" code. There is currently no standard way with the XE2 framework to support this.
See: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/41729
XE5 has major improvements and data connectivity is now easily handled via DataSnap. One can easily reference existing web services via a DataSnap server, so the issues I originally had are now solved.
We've created a windows service to detect the insertion of a particular usb device.
That service is then supposed to launch an application we have written.
We initially made a setup project for our application and a separate one for the windows service.
Now, we are trying to get the service and the application installed in the same setup project.
We tried putting the output of our service into the setup project but without any luck.
We have the a projectinstaller class in the service, so why can't we simply add the project output of the Windows service (including the installer class) to our application's setup project?
There is MSDN article explains it, Create the installers for your service. Microsoft support also have an article, How to create a setup project for a Windows Service application in Visual C#
My primary language is Delphi. In Delphi, when a program is created as Service Application,
installing the program as a Windows Service can be done by running my_service_app_name.exe /INSTALL. I guess, the execution mechanism should be roughly same with service applications created by other compilers.
Thus, adding a windows service to an existing application installer can be done by just running the service application as mentioned, but you should refer to the documentation in case you are not using Delphi.