Hi and thanks before hand.
At my restaurant we keep all the menu items in a monitor plugged to a Windows 7 machine, but customers usually ask for another menu to be shown so we have to manually switch the applications. Is there some way to make a slideshow-wise install to switch between applications (something like and Automatic Timed ALT + TAB)?
Have them on your website, allow customers to browse the website.
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My company just bought some windows tablets to use. I have since designed a webpage that will be the OS. They want me lock out all of the windows features, so how would be the best way to go about doing this?
I have tried adding using kiosk mode in chrome, but the user can still use windows keys, the task bar, and use Alt+F4.
I also would like if it didn't show the windows lock screen because the employees will be in charge of powering it up. This is so complicated, there are so many things that I will have to disable. If anyone has any tips, or resources please let me know!
In my application I need to share an item through various way (like facebook, twitter, linkedin etc). So I need to list the application installed in my phone show that I can share via any one appplication. So can anybody help me out?
It is not possible to know what other applciations are installed on a phone. Having access to this information would be a potential data privacy issue.
Windows Phone 7 has builtin support for this kind of actions with the launchers / choosers. Within the list of launchers you will find the ShareStatusTask which is opening the builtin 'share your status' control. This control checks your phone device for the profiles/networks to which you have connected. By using the Status property of the Task you can than fill in the message you want to share. In the opened control you can than choose on which networks you want to share your message.
See below code sample on how to use this task:
ShareStatusTask shareStatusTask = new ShareStatusTask();
shareStatusTask.Status = "Share my status on different networks";
shareStatusTask.Show();
NOTE: If you start a launcher from your app, your app will be deactived. Normally after completing the taks your app will be reactivated. For the overview of Launchers / choosers you can have a look at Launchers and Choosers Overview for Windows Phone
I am making an installer for my application using visual studio installer.I was wondering if there is any way to "pin" my application to the "Windows Start Menu" using the installer
You really should not be doing this - pinning and unpinning is meant to be a user action / preference. No matter how amazing your application might be, it is up to the user if they want to pin it or not.
A small set of applications are pinned by default for new
installations. Other than these, only the user can pin further
applications; programmatic pinning by an application is not permitted.
There are ways around this limitation, i.e: this and this. But even there it notes that you are not supposed to be doing this.
The file I need is textfile.txt on a network share accessible from my machine. Is there any way to display this text on my windows 7 desktop using the least number of additional frameworks installed (assume everyone on the network who will use this app has .Net pre-installed). The contents of the file may change.
Thank you for looking.
Developing a Windows Sidebar Gadget will give you a head start. You won't need any client side frameworks for the task at hand because every action you need to code can be done in JavaScript.
I need to run a program - probably for a couple of days.
I am just wondering how I can prevent windows 7 to go into sleep mode/hibernate and prevent automatic update.
Thanks.
Christian
As for preventing sleep/hibernate try to look in MSDN at SetThreadExecutionState, WM_POWERBROADCAST. Read also the following document.
Or you can just right click on the power icon near the clock, or type power in the Start Menu and select power options. Next choose one of the currnet power plan your computer is set to, and click on the Change plan settings. Simply set ALL the parameter to Never... you computer will run forever...
There are two great sample chapters on Windows Phone and Silverlight for Windows Phone on the LearningWindosPhone.com site. There is great Windows Phone Trainng material , and dont forget the Windows Phone Develoeprs Blog