Sometimes, you, even being a power user of Windows, can miss some things that can make your life easier. You get used to a routine and then, new features come and unfortunately,…
Tag: Windows 10
Monetizing your Delphi app with TWindowsStore
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to publish your Delphi app to the Windows Store. If it is a paid app, you can start getting money with it as soon as…
Packaging an app with a Win32 dll to the Windows Store with the Desktop Bridge
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to package a Delphi application for the Windows Store, and in this post I’ve shown how to package a WPF application. In both cases, the apps…
Creating an app for the Windows Store with Delphi Rio 10.3
Until some time ago, creating an app to the Windows Store was only possible by creating an UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app and submitting it to the Windows Store. This was somewhat…
Detecting Window Closing With UWP
I was developing an app in UWP where I needed to do some cleanup when the window was closed, and the only way that I had found until now was to used…
Multi Instancing in UWP
One thing that went unnoticed in the last post is that the console app is multi-instance: if you click in the live tile or in the start menu, instead of bringing the…
Writing console apps with UWP
One new feature introduced in the April 2018 Windows 10 update is the possibility of writing console apps using UWP. You could ask "why build an UWP console app if we have…
Publishing your app to the Store with the Desktop Bridge – Part 2 – Publishing a Win32 app
On last post, I’ve shown how to publish a .NET app to the store. This is quite easy with Visual Studio, but the app must be a .NET app and it must…
Publishing your app to the Store with the Desktop Bridge
You have an old app (maybe a WPF or even a VB6 app), it still works fine, but the plans to rewrite it to UWP and get all the features for Windows…
Fast file enumeration with UWP
Sometimes you need to enumerate the files in a folder and its subfolders and that can be a very long task, especially with large folders. This article will show a fast and…