In this post, we will learn about using navigation in Universal Windows Applications. As for a developer, they require navigation between pages in their application. So, we will create an Universal Windows App in Visual studio and add another page in the solution explorer following steps below: Go to Solution Explorer –> Right click on […]
Using Bing Maps in Universal Windows App
Now a days, integration of maps within an application is common and developers wants to integrate their application to use maps. So, in this post, we will create an Universal Windows Application to use Bing Maps Api and utilize Maps functionality within the application. For creating this application, first, we will create an Universal Windows […]
Creating a Microsoft Azure Mobile Service in Visual Studio 2015
In this post, we will create a basic Microsoft Azure Mobile Service using Visual Studio 2015 IDE. By using Visual Studio IDE, we can easily create an Azure Mobile service on localhost. For creating a Mobile Service using VS IDE, we would create a new project in Visual Studio as follows: Go to File -> […]
Parsing JSON from Flickr Api in a Universal Windows App
In this article, we will learn how to create an Universal Windows Application which can parse a JSON string coming from the Api of a particular Website. Here, in this article we are using a basic api from Flickr to show all the recent images from Flickr website in the application. For this we need […]
Recording and Saving an Audio file in Windows 10 Application
In this post, I will start with recording audio files and saving them in the storage. So, for recording audio files, we need to add the support for Microphone in the application. Go to package.appxmanifest file -> Capabilities -> Check on Microphone and Music Library. After adding the capabilities to use Microphone and Music Library […]
Capturing and saving a Video in Windows 10 Application
In this blog post, we would work with capturing video in Windows 10 Application. Video capturing is one of the common tool used now-a-days in application development. So, we begin with the application: In Visual Studio 2015, Start a new project and select Blank app in Universal App category. Before starting any coding, we have […]
Capturing and Saving Image in Windows 10 App
Generally during application development, developers need to use image capturing feature within their applications just because of the need of an application or as an added feature. As it comes, for the platform like Windows 10 there are few changes in the code syntax which need to be addressed. So this following blog post is about using the new syntax […]
File Picker in Windows 10 Universal App
In this post I will start with adding File Picker functionality in Windows 10 universal applications built in C#. Here we are using few libraries to perform the task, before proceeding in the program further, we should add the following namespaces to the .CS file of the Main Window: using Windows.Storage; using Windows.Storage.Pickers; using Windows.Storage.Streams; […]
Powershell: Wiping out recycle bin and Temp folder
I have recently wrote a script for deleting files from temp folder and consequtively wiping Recycle Bin. The function below performs the same function, it first deletes the files from temp folder and then wipes out recycle bin. In the function above $Env:temp is to get the location of temp folder from the […]
Programming Python 101: Getting Started
In this blog post series, we will start from the basics of Python and move towards Advanced topics in a progressive manner. As we know, it is just another programming language like C#, Java etc. I am gonna start directly with programming in Python. Before beginning the basics, for those who doesn’t have python installed […]