I've noticed that in the Phone 7 Beta emulator there is a settings application. It contains an "applications" panel. This seems to imply that we should be writing settings plugins so that settings for all apps are managed centrally, similarly to how the iPhone settings work.
Does anyone know how we write/register these plugins? Or if I'm on completely the wrong track?
Thanks!
All settings and configuration for any application you create should be managed from within that application.
This is different from the iPhone where settings and configuration are considered separate and should be managed in separate places.
The Settings "application" on the device/emulator contains system settings and what it calls "application" settings. What are termed applicatoin settings actually relate to hub settings (plus IE & Search).
From the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 version 2.0 (page 66 - System and system application settings)
"Application settings must be
implemented within the application
itself."
MSDN: How to: Create a Settings Page for Windows Phone
Edit:I just tried the SettingsSample and that doesn't appear in the OS settings page but I think that is the plan in the final SDK this functionality should be available.
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Hi I have a new protocol URL:myTest, how can I add it in windows 10 so I can see it listed in default programs? Shall I add it in registry? How/Where exactly could I do that?
I want to associate a program with this protocol.
The registration for "Default Programs" is in the registry under SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications. If your application fits one of the client types then you should point your RegisteredApplications value to Software\Clients\%ClientType%\%YourCanonicalName%\Capabilities, otherwise you can use any key like Software\%YourCompany%\%YourApp%\Capabilities or Software\Classes\Applications\%Filename%\Capabilities.
The most important subkey in your case is UrlAssociations.
You must also register your protocol in the normal way.
Some of this changed in Windows 10 and I would recommend that you test on Windows 7 or 8 as well. "Default Programs" has been deprecated in Windows 10.
You should also register yourself in the Applications key for integration with the "Open with" dialog.
This is the way it works for pure desktop apps, I'm not sure what happens if you convert a desktop app to UWP. Modern apps declare their protocol in the manifest.
I have a bunch of iPads that are all supervised, and that are enrolled into a MDM server (Mavericks Server). I've added the app to the specific device group, but when I go to the profile settings and Single App Mode the only apps I can select are the builtin ones.
Is there no way to use a third party (enterprise) app as the app for Single App Mode?
EDIT: If you use Apple Configurator and add the app there you can set Single App Mode to use that app, I would imagine that would be possible when doing the same in Apple's Profile Manager, but it doesn't seem to be working here.
EDIT2: Looking at Apple's documentation it does indeed seem to be possible to select a third party app for single app mode using their Profile Manager, so why isn't the app showing in the list for me?
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/assessment_with_ipad_mar2013_v2.pdf
Go to the Device Group, after installing the app (that you want to show in Single App Mode dropdown and lock it to) do "Update Info" (small icon in bottom-middle-left of screen) on all the devices in that group. Wait a bit, then go to Single App Mode screen again, the app should start appearing.Works for me. The "Update Info" thing also works for Single Device as well and you can lock to any new app installed from Profile Manger, doesn't matter if the app was installed while supervising through Configurator or not.
So interestingly enough in the new update for Server (3.1.1) this seems to be working. The Enterprise app is now listed in the dropdown box.
However there also is about 10 empty items in the box with no text description. So it's clearly still a bit buggy.
Do you know if the Windows Phone SDK offers an API that allows to add a custom App entry inside the Application Settings page?
I would like to create a new entry "AppXYZ" that links the settings page of the application.
Is this view reserved just for "system" applications or could also be used to add a link to an external app's settings?
Although not well-known, there is a way to do that. In WMAppManifest.xml you can specify that your app belongs in HubType="268435456". That way, it will be integrated there. This is not an officially-supported approach and I am yet to see a third-party app approved in the Store that would handle this.
You can link to the settings page of your own application but not to the windows phone settings page you show us in the screenshot. Developers are only allowed to show some of these by using the corresponding URL schmemes.
Unfortuantely there is no possibility to integrate your app to the official settings hub as a third party developer. Adding HubType="268435456" in your WMAppManifest.xml file will prevent a successful sumbission.
Sorry for the bad news...
I can't seem to enable Pseudo-language on the WP8 emulator. Most tutorials suggest to set the localization via the development operating system, and that these settings somehow "trickle down" into the emulator, but this doesn't seem to work for me -- the emulator just defaults to English no matter how I have my OS language/keyboard set (Control Panel -> Language -> Move Up <language> to top -> restart emulator).
I can change localization settings within the phone's "Settings", and although other languages successfully translate within my app, Pseudo is not an option.
I have Googled lots of MSDN information (including documentation on how to troubleshoot this specific issue) and I have seemingly exhausted my options.
tl;dr Has anyone had trouble with the "trickle down" of localization settings into the Windows Phone emulator? How do you fix it?
Here is the solution recommended by Microsoft
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("qps-ploc");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("qps-ploc");
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj569303.aspx
When I want to run my WP8 app in pseudo-loc, I add the following line to the beginning of App constructor:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("qps-ploc");
We just purchased new HP Z200 machines that came with Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit on them and we have upgraded them to Service Pack 1.
When we go into Component Services and expand computers and right-click on My Computer and choose properties, the Options tab has a disabled "Enable partitions" option that we have not been able to figure out how to enable.
We do not have this issue on Windows 2008.
Any ideas?
According to: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a601d45a-10c0-4da9-a424-d35afef22161/how-to-enable-windows-7-windows-8-com-partitions-function
I'll quote in it's entirity:
According to the Product team on this behavior, starting from Windows
Vista, they have the “Enable Partitions” checkbox grayed out on client
desktops. This was an intentional change as they want the ability to
have COM+ partitions to be available only on servers and not client
desktops.
...which makes me wonder why the blazes the checkbox is there in the first place if there's never going to be a way to enabled it.