|
I'd raise this here: Bugs and Suggestions[^] - you'd need the admins to search the DB and recover the DL if they still have it.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
I've done that - thanks for the hint - oddly enough, I got a notification from your response so it seems like only article forums are affected(?)...
|
|
|
|
|
Dirk Bahle wrote: I can turn this on off again
FTFY.
|
|
|
|
|
Took a crack at the "Windows App Certification" test for UWP and PASSED first time (except for the logo which I let default).
Some 29 automated tests.
Developed the app in WPF and created a .Net standard library.
Converted the WPF to UWP and reused the .Net standard library.
If you use WPF and not UWP, reconsider.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
Congrats Universal Soldier 
|
|
|
|
|
Thank you!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
Why?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Because I want to sell it. And I think it actually is a new experience (for me and the user).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
Fair enough, especially that it's a method of gaining experience in doing things a little differently.
I'm only curious because there doesn't seem to be a very active market for UWP apps -- hardly anyone's got a windows phone, and most people go for desktop apps on laptops and desktops.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
I'm thinking "tablets" (first) and then desktops. This app will probably run on XBox and Hololense. I can scale it from some 3 x 4 to 54 inches (well Windows 10 does that). It maintains state.
I would have bought the Surface Go instead of the IPad back when; even now, I haven't touched anything Android or IOS (except my 8 year old IPad [as a pdf reader] ... which obsoleted after the 2nd year).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
Well, as someone who has an itoy 3, two android tablets (because I broke one), and two windows tablets, I use:
itoy:
- Not at all, I dumped it on the missus, who uses it exclusively for looking at websites about men's bums.
Android:
- Way better. Good for comms stuff and reading.
- With a decent file manager, it almost becomes usable as a computer, but the user interface makes it difficult to do serious stuff with it.
windows:
- The real thing. I use them for anything I'd do with a desktop or laptop -- In Desktop Mode. UWP mode reduces their usefulness closer to that of Android (if you don't count using the UWP start page or godawful "apps" list abomination to open desktop apps).
But that's me.
If your app is aimed at less techy, more casual users, UWP is probably OK.
Find a discussion group, or whatever, that has your target consumers, and ask them what they like -- a fair number of people on CP will say the same as me.
If it were me asking users, I'd also ask things like "What do you like buttons to look like?" (Although I'd be tempted to phrase it "Do you enjoy hunting for buttons, and tapping everywhere to see if there are buttons, or do you stupidly prefer to be able to see what you're looking at, you old fogey who doesn't understand the way of the future?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
No idea what "UWP for casual users" means.
At the bottom, is just a different "install package".
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
Non-techy people, who only use computers for entertainment and writing letters to Granny.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Your granny uses a Surface Pro? S Mode? Or?
(Granny won't need a keyboard with my app ... and it can talk).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
My granny was an engineer, and probably smarter and more into new tech than many people around here.
I find stupid assumptions annoying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Kind of mandatory: Vast Power Of Certification | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
I'll go get cover (and the coat on my way out)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
"What do you mean there are no Help files?" It's been Certified!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
My sympathies. Where are you committed?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
You have to give a contact for the app ... so time will tell.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
|
Congrats! In your line of work, you're writing UWP apps?
|
|
|
|
|
This is a product I'm fielding on my own; using what I gained building for others (non UWP).
I found it was easier than I thought to convert a WPF front-end to UWP. And the MS Store is easier to deal with than anything I could come up with (marketing an app).
The store will even try and figure out itself all the devices your app will run on.
And in some ways, UWP makes it a little harder to create an ugly UI.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
|
|
|
|
|
Good for you - better that than certifiable... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
|
|
|
|
|
That might be what he actually meant.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
Congrats
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
