I am looking for a way to uniquely identify a user in WinRT and preferably in WP8 as well. In WP7 applications, I could get a hash of the Live ID to do this, but I am not sure of how to approach this in WinRT environment. One of the goals here is to identify the user in Windows 8 environment as a whole. Using LiveID in one form or another would be ok in this case. I found some sources but they also mentioned that this might require some Enterprise Security permissions (or such) that are not welcome in the Windows Marketplace.
Say I want to identify the user based on the live id, I want to do it automatically and across multiple devices (PC, Tablet, maybe WP8). What resources should I be looking for?
You can obtain ID of each live user if you are using Live SDK. Here's code for you.
private async Task<string> GetLiveUserId()
{
string ID = "";
var auth = new LiveAuthClient();
var loginResult = await auth.LoginAsync(new string[] { "wl.signin", "wl.basic" });
if (loginResult.Status == LiveConnectSessionStatus.Connected)
{
var liveClient = new LiveConnectClient(loginResult.Session);
var myData = await liveClient.GetAsync("me");
ID = myData.Result["id"].ToString();
}
return ID;
}
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I'm creating a simple program for reading text file on the Windows Phone. I decided to make it a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App.
In the app, I have a very simple MessageDialog, with three options, Yes, No, Cancel. It works perfectly on the Desktop and in the Simulator. However, when testing with the actual device, the ShowAsync method fails with the message: "Value does not fall in the expected range".
This only happens if there are more than two commands registered in the dialog. Does the MessageDialog class really supports up to three commands - as the documentation suggests - or is this only applying for UWP Apps running on Desktop devices?
At the moment, there is a clear statement in the docs:
The dialog has a command bar that can support up to 3 commands in desktop apps, or 2 commands in mobile apps.
Sad but true: on mobiles, there are two commands only. Need more? Use ContentDialog instead.
It looks like the documentation is missing information about Mobile (and really the API should do a better job here).
For Mobile, if you hit the Back key you get a null return value, so you can do this (not recommended coding pattern, but best I can think of):
async Task Test()
{
const int YES = 1;
const int NO = 2;
const int CANCEL = 3;
var dialog = new MessageDialog("test");
dialog.Commands.Add(new UICommand { Label = "yes", Id = YES });
dialog.Commands.Add(new UICommand { Label = "no", Id = NO });
// Ugly hack; not really how it's supposed to be used.
// TODO: Revisit if MessageDialog API is updated in future release
var deviceFamily = AnalyticsInfo.VersionInfo.DeviceFamily;
if (deviceFamily.Contains("Desktop"))
{
dialog.Commands.Add(new UICommand { Label = "cancel", Id = CANCEL });
}
// Maybe Xbox 'B' button works, but I don't know so best to not do anything
else if (!deviceFamily.Contains("Mobile"))
{
throw new Exception("Don't know how to show dialog for device "
+ deviceFamily);
}
// Will return null if you press Back on Mobile
var result = await dialog.ShowAsync();
// C# 6 syntactic sugar to avoid some null checks
var id = (int)(result?.Id ?? CANCEL);
Debug.WriteLine("You chose {0}", id);
}
I would like to have a second, (and more) windows for my windows universal app to run on a PC. But to my surprise this does not seem easy. In WPF for example I could add a new item to my project and select a window. In Universal, there is no "Window" in new items. I can declare an object of class windows.ui.xaml.window but I cannot instantiate it (there is no new) or show it. How do I launch another window? Thanks
There is a sample available on Microsoft's UWP GitHub repo which covers creating multiple views for your application. I can provide more information or help if you need it
Ended up finding something which is quite simple, takes a page by type, creates it and a window with it inside, and returns the page object created:
async Task<Page> CreatePageWindowAsync(Type p)
{
CoreApplicationView newView = CoreApplication.CreateNewView();
int newViewId = 0;
Page pg = null;
await newView.Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () =>
{
Frame frame = new Frame();
frame.Navigate(p, null);
Window.Current.Content = frame;
Window.Current.Activate();
newViewId = ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().Id;
pg = frame.Content as Page;
});
bool viewShown = await ApplicationViewSwitcher.TryShowAsStandaloneAsync(newViewId);
return (pg);
}
I'm trying to use flicke's api to import images into a Windows Phone app and display them on the phones panoramic dispaly.
I'm new to flickr's API and am stuck ATM.
I've tried the following call:
// original string flickString = "https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=cc9babb2754c1d29837bea480c97013e&text=game+of+thrones&format=json&nojsoncallback=1&api_sig=bb86a60e9e42f31950bf53d25fc45f08";
string flickString = "https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=cc9babb2754c1d29837bea480c97013e&text=game+of+thrones&extras=url_sq%2C+url_t%2C+url_s%2C+url_q%2C+url_m%2C+url_n%2C+url_z%2C+url_c%2C+url_l%2C+url_o+&format=json&nojsoncallback=1&api_sig=9e74e094d8c6a7496fc66e070f5c0898";
var baseUrl = string.Format(flickString, flickrAPIKey);
string flickrResult = await client.GetStringAsync(baseUrl);
FlickrData flickrApiData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<FlickrData>(flickrResult);
if(flickrApiData.stat == "ok")
{
foreach (Photo data in flickrApiData.photos.photo)
{
// To retrieve one photo
// http://farm{farmid}.staticflickr.com/{server-id}/{id}_{secret}{size}.jpeg
//string photoUrl = "http://farm{0}.staticflickr.com/{1}/{2}_{3}_o.jpeg";
//string photoUrl = "http://farm{0}.staticflickr.com/{1}/{2}_{3}_b.jpeg";
//string photoUrl = "http://farm{0}.staticflickr.com/{1}/{2}_{3}_n.jpg";
string photoUrl = "http://farm{0}.staticflickr.com/{1}/{2}_{3}"
string baseFlickrUrl = string.Format(photoUrl,
data.farm,
data.server,
data.id,
data.secret);
flickr1Image.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(baseFlickrUrl));
break;
}
}
}
When I deploy and run the app I get an image saying that this image is unavailiablemessage every time? I've tried changing the search terms etc and still get the sme message. Which is making me wondor if I've missed something setting up my account with flickr earlier that I'm not aware of? It's very frustrating - help please.
Thanks to card_master for his help so far
I'm also integrating with Flickr. I'm creating a web site that uses their api.
I'm using FlickrNet. This is an open source .net library that you can use to call the Flickr Services. This is a C# library.
The benefit of using it on a mobile application you can take advantage of the caching. It allows you to store images in the phones storage. This won't work on a web application though.
Can someone show me or tell some example how to unregister from notification hub in windows phone 8. I tried on this way but it doesn't work.
public void registerForNotifications(string[] tags)
{
var channel = HttpNotificationChannel.Find("xxx");
if (channel == null)
{
channel = new HttpNotificationChannel("xxx");
channel.Open();
channel.BindToShellToast();
}
string[] tagsToSubscribeTo = tags;
channel.ChannelUriUpdated += new EventHandler<NotificationChannelUriEventArgs>(async (o, args) =>
{
var hub = new NotificationHub("xxx", "xxx");
await hub.RegisterNativeAsync(args.ChannelUri.ToString(), tagsToSubscribeTo);
});
}
public async void unregisterFromNotifications()
{
var channel = HttpNotificationChannel.Find("xxx");
var hub = new NotificationHub("xxx", "xxx");
await hub.UnregisterAllAsync(channel.ChannelUri.ToString());
}
You didn't say what "it didn't work" means. Did you get an error message? Did it report success but actually fail? In your questions, it really helps more if you share those things. But I'll take a stab at this anyway.
I suspect that you might be using the DefaultListenSharedAccessSignature endpoint from your Windows Phone 8 app.
According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn495373.aspx, the Listen access level grants permission to:
Create/Update registration.
Read registration.
Read all registrations for a handle.
Delete registration.
Reading that last one, I wonder if the UnregisterAllAsync method might require a higher access level to delete all registrations, rather than just one.
But rather than use the DefaultFullSharedAccessSignature endpoint, I would rather just try the UnregisterAsync method instead of UnregisterAllAsync.
Disclaimer: I have not tried this out. It may not help at all.
I'm working on a WinRT app that's actually also a game. I need to keep different information such as audio settings or player statistics somewhere in sort of a file or somehow. If it's a file, just write settings in or... ? I have an idea but I think is way too rudimentary... What is the best approach to obtain this?
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Here are some ways to save Data in a WinRT app, the method with Settings in the name is probably what you are looking for!- just added the other ones as well,- you also can serialize data if you want to. This is working code- but don't forget to add error handling etc. It's a simple demo code :)
As for settings, you can save simple settings as key and values, and for more complex settings you can use a container. I've provided both examples here =)
public class StorageExamples
{
public async Task<string> ReadTextFileAsync(string path)
{
var folder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
var file = await folder.GetFileAsync(path);
return await FileIO.ReadTextAsync(file);
}
public async void WriteTotextFileAsync(string fileName, string contents)
{
var folder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
var file = await folder.CreateFileAsync(fileName, CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting);
await FileIO.WriteTextAsync(file, contents);
}
public void SaveSettings(string key, string contents)
{
ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings.Values[key] = contents;
}
public string LoadSettings(string key)
{
var settings = ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings;
return settings.Values[key].ToString();
}
public void SaveSettingsInContainer(string user, string key, string contents)
{
var localSetting = ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings;
localSetting.CreateContainer(user, ApplicationDataCreateDisposition.Always);
if (localSetting.Containers.ContainsKey(user))
{
localSetting.Containers[user].Values[key] = contents;
}
}
}
The MSDN has an article on using app settings in Windows Store apps.
The Windows.UI.ApplicationSettings namespace contains all the classes you need.
Provides classes that allow developers to define the app settings that appear in the settings pane of the Windows shell. The settings pane provides a consistent place for users to access app settings.
Basically these classes let you store application settings and hook them into the standard place for all application settings. Your users don't have to learn anything new, the settings will be in the expected place.