Is there a way to access the Share Picker in my application? I have read about making my own Share Picker Extension, but that isn't really what I am looking for. I want the user to be able to share a generated image from my app.
Thank you,
Doc Haven
No. The SharePicker allows you to add functionality from your application to the Pictures Hub.
There is no way to add that functionality, from the hub, back into your app.
If you want to be able to "share" something with the web (e.g. sent do Facebook/Twitter) then you must implement this yourself.
There is no way to link between your application and another on the device.
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I'm building a Windows Store app with C#, and I have certain data and settings that I need to persist between sessions. Right now I'm doing this with local files, but for some of it, I don't want the users to be able to edit the files. I currently thwart that by using "scary" file names and obfuscated data, but I want better security, but also don't want to have to jump to my cloud service just to pull their settings, because I want functionality when internet connectivity doesn't exist.
How do I do this? I feel like this is something that should be pretty commonly used feature in apps.
I never worked on Windows 8/8.1 apps, so maybe there is some integrated feature to do what yout want, but I didn't find anything on that subject.
In fact, what I found seems to indicate the opposite :
If you want the data of your Windows Store app to be secured, you have
to do it by yourself.
Depending on the desired level of security you could try using some form of encryption for your local files.
This would make the settings unreadable by the user, and prevent them to tamper with it.
But as pointed in Windows 8 Apps - Local Storage Security, encryption might not be the best way if you really want to make sure the data cannot be edited outside your app, since it is possible to extract the key from your app and decode the data.
How do you embed a webview that can open other webviews that you can easily switch between into a PhoneGap application for Windows Phone 8? I can't find any resources on how to embed multiple webviews into a windows 8 mobile app. I'm really asking for any kind of guidance that could help.
Thanks.
Windows Phone does not support multiple WebBrowser controls on a single page. You'll need to use multiple pages if you need multiple embedded browser controls or change the contents of a single embedded control.
Without knowing what you're trying to achieve it's hard to know what the best suitable approach could be for you.
Take a look on ChildBrowser plugin which allows you to open a new browser window and even has events to capture responses from the spawned child window. This is the most closest thing in PhoneGap you are looking for.
I've been asked to write a prototype application in C# for Windows Phone 7.1 that can take data via functionality like Android's "Share" function and then process such data.
For example: The user opens the mail application and views a PDF attachment. For this attachment, he presses the application's "Share" button, selects my application from a list of registered handlers and my application can process the PDF file.
Questions:
Is such "Share" functionality available in Windows Phone 7.1 at all? (I way told it should be called "Send To")
Can somebody provide me with online reading on how to create respective handlers?
I'm unfamiliar with the offering that Android gives, but you can extend the share picker and there is a detailed article on MSDN with example code to do so.
I want to take a photo using a webcam from my application. How do I accomplish that? My application is developed in C# and to make a visitor's pass, I want to take a photo of the particular visitor when he enters the company building.
Try out jQuery Webcam
I am struggling to get the save function to work, but its a start.
Webcams all use a different API. Find the API that your webcam supports...let me know, and I will happily talk you through how to do it.
I assume that you are talking WinForms?
You are going to need some kind of trusted client side code, if you want to do this. Java, Flash, SilverLight are all possibilities. But they may create a dependency on a particular WebCam/Software/API.
You'd be much better off configuring your web cam to put its photos in a single place and have a web form that accepts a file upload.
This way when your web cam breaks and you can't get the exact same device you don't have to recode.
I want to work on windows API. I have an interest in creating network application that can communicate with web as well. I haven't thought any application yet. But before doing all this . I want to know where to start with. What all I need to start reading.
I have created lot of database interactive applications with window forms. But would like to start with this.
If you want to use Windows API methods from .Net, you'll need to use PInvoke to call them. There's a site called pinvoke.net that has samples for how you call many of the APIs so if you know which API you want to call, that's usually the best place to start.
For your use case maybe you dont need API at all. You could use the FileSystemWatcher .net class to react on any changes in a log folder e.g. It reacts on modify/add/delete of files.