When submitting a UWP or WinRT app to the Windows Store, you must increase the Version number of the package or the submission will fail. It can be a chore to manually update the version number.
Download Code (1.14 MB)I was thinking about how to write code that will work on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Metro). In theory some of the techniques that could be used are well known. But I wanted to try them out. So I decided to try some things out in a piece of throw away code.
C# 6 has been available for a long time, by now! Many developers have written many guides to "list" the features. I have written this post to explain those features, and to explain whether they are actually new or are they just sugar coating to the compiler.
We will examine the ABI and how C++ compiler extensions help reference that ABI without exposing the internal details of dealing with COM interfaces and COM activation.
When projecting a WinRT Component object to WinJS, I kept running into an exception saying that the WinRT object could not be extended. This post will briefly describe how I got around this issue.
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Whilst Microsoft wants a unified platform, and as I said I understand why, would it not be better to wait and be happy that Win 8 and WinRT is successful with bugs ironed out before rolling it out across all form factors?
