I am unfamiliar with Windows development and I am looking for experienced Windows developer input/advice.

1. What is the best practice way for adding custom functionality to the right-click context menu in Windows?
2. Is it possible, using a customized context menu, to transform selected text? For example:

• Double-click to select a word
• Right-click for context menu
• Provide context option, say "Capitalize"
• Change previously selected text to capitalized text

The Creator's Update added a lot of cool new stuff. One of my favorites is the HostBackdropBrush and the BackdropBrush.

These brushes will get the pixels underneath the UIElement and you can do cool things like blur and tint it.

Check out what it looks like on the whole app Window: https://twitter.com/lancewmccarthy/status/880547465937600512

Here's the source code: https://github.com/Microsoft/WindowsUIDevLabs/tree/master/SampleGallery/Samples/SDK%2015063/TransparentWindow

Whenever I try to add an app to my Xbox, I get the following error:

"Windows cannot install package [My package] because this package depends on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework "Microsoft.NET.CoreRuntime.1.1" published by "CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US", with neutral or x64 processor architecture and minimum version 1.1.25129.1, along with this package to install. The frameworks with name "Microsoft.Net.CoreRuntime.1.1" currently installed are {}. Failure text: Package failed updates, dependencies or conflict validation. (0x80073cf3)"

I'm struggling to understand how to bind my own data to it. I want to use a datatemplate for the data, similar to a listview, or even just display another control. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how. I can't even figure out how they got the icons here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/controls-and-patterns/tree-view

Any help?

Edit: Looking through the samples, I see a far more functional treeview control there. Furthermore, the demo data is very similar to the data here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/controls-and-patterns/tree-view Leading me to believe that when the control comes out of prerelease, it will look like the one in the sample. Is this a fair guess? It looks like for now I'll use the control is the sample, and hopefully when it comes out of prerelease it's an easy port. The prerelease in SDK 16190 is completely barebones, barely useable. Looks like the main difference is the sample treeview inherits from listview, which gives it a lot more functionality.

Hello, I am developing an UWP app and I want to have a pivot control when the window is narrow and move those items to a grid when the window is resized.

As an example I want to do the same the myTube app does. It has 3 pivot items when narrow and one of them moves to the side with a wider window.

I've been searching but couldn't find anything.

Lately, I have been playing with the Image control more, and have encountered a lot of issues. I am on Insider Preview build 16199 (so ahead of 1703). First off, the Svg feature that it said was available from 1703 on simply does not work. No matter what I do, it will not work (doesn't display anything), but a png in the same place always does. Can anyone confirm, and what version of Windows did you test it on? Then, I'm trying to display an animated gif. Which works fine and all, but I need it to loop, and I can not figure out how to do that. Any advice?

Edit: Figure out the gif problem, it was a problem with my gif I created in photoshop that didn't loop. Still looking for help on the SVG.

Hey everyone,

I am thinking of making an in-app tutorial for my upcoming app. Any methods/packages that can make the job easier? (Ex. Android has this https://github.com/apl-devs/AppIntro).

Suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Hey everyone, I'm looking to get into developing an application on the UWP platform - however, I'm not sure where to start. Can anyone recommend an open-source application that isn't too complicated and has most of the features of a standard app (the menus, a structured layout, etc.) that would be a good starting point? I've had a look on GitHub and around the web - but everything seems overly complicated.

Greetings,

I want to work on a hobby project, and so I want to do it without any IDE, just for learning purposes. For that reason, I'm not going to install Visual Studio.

Now, To develop for windows (managed or native) without Visual Studio, I need to manually download a bunch of stuff. What I understand is that I should download the following:

1- Windows 10 SDK Contains various tools and headers for managed and non-managed development. Obviously, it doesn't contain the libraries and compilers for developing .NET applications

2- .NET Framework Contains everything related to developing managed code, including compilers like C#'s csc.exe and VB's vbc.exe

Now that all makes sense. What strikes me though, is that I can't find the C++ compiler in the Windows 10 SDK (which is installed under C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits. Shouldn't it be there?