I am planning to create a UWP app which calls in a win32 exe for some tasks. Win32 exe will implement the functionalities which cannot be implemented with .net core.
Will such an app be published in the store?
I don't want to end up in a situation where I make the app and at the end the app is not allowed in the store.
You can submit your info here and then discuss your planned submission with a dedicated consultant from Microsoft:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/projects/campaigns/desktop-bridge
Also feel free to hit me up directly for any quick questions (swick at Microsoft.com)
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I have a self-contained application built against a static Qt library. One of the requirements is to update itself.
How updating is done:
To do this, it checks the application version against a web API and downloads update from a API link from a remote server.
There is a post that asks this question but doesn't provide useful information to my problem, or in general how to update an application.
How do I update a self-contained executable?
Is there a way to cross-compile or port an ASP.NET based webpage to a native Windows GUI?
I am developing a web app, with an ASP.NET webservice doing much of the grunt work, and an ASP.NET webpage as the GUI. I would like to also offer an "offline" version of the app that doesn't require teaching random people how to manage IIS. Some of my target users will not have internet access consistently when they want to use the app; also, I like not having to rely on an active web connection myself because I'm an old fogey and this web 2.0 stuff is just a fad, right?
The core of the app logic is a library that is disassociated from everything else - the service just provides an API (which I want publicly available for others to use), and that I use for my own app. I could go ahead and design a new GUI in WPF or WinForms, import my libraries and there you go, but I'm lazy enough that I'm curious if there's an automated solution. Or even a semi-automated solution.
If I can target not-Windows as well, that would be nice. I already have a console interface that I used in development of the core library that directly accesses them, which I'm still testing but should relatively easy to make work in WINE but if I can offer more support for offline use to non-Windows users I'd feel better.
You could run that web application on .NET Core in a self-hosted way. That way you get the full IIS feature set and there is no need for the user to configure anything.
You can then use a WebBrowser control to show the application as a GUI app, or just open the web site in the users installed browser.
.NET Core runs on non-Windows as well.
I am creating small project in xamarin.form (to learn xamarin and mvvm pattern ), where my mobile application will be connect to SQL Server database. On every forum people suggest to use Web Api to get json's from database and next in xamarin application i go under link where is json, parse it and its done. I did an test project which is doing that and it works very well. Unfortunatelly after few days I realized that all data is visible.. If I enter under url/api/subject I get this data in json.
My question is. Should I connect from my xamarin application directly to SQL Database OR is there any way to not showing json's in browser?
To function correctly, many mobile applications are dependent on the cloud, and so integrating web services into mobile applications is a common scenario. The Xamarin platform supports consuming different web service technologies, and includes in-built and third-party support for consuming RESTful, ASMX, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services.
This article discusses this topics.
For customers using Xamarin.Forms, there are complete examples using each of these technologies in the Xamarin.Forms Web Services documentation.
I recommend you learn more about REST architecture
My asp.net application is still in development phase,is it possible to implement OPEN ID in my application?.I am new to asp.net kindly guide me how to implement open id.What are the necessary parameters i should keep in mind to improve security of my web application.Should i implement session in my project?
The open source project DotNetOpenAuth is a fantastic place to get started with integrating OpenID (and other, more up-to-date open web protocols such as OAuth 2.0) into your ASP.NET project.
They have tons of great documentation and example projects that should be able to get you started quickly.
I want to build a web application (SaaS) that can work both in Online and Offline modes. The user needs limited features in case he is offline and full feature access when he becomes online again. I thought of the following options:
Make the user download a local server such as Cassini and devise an architecture to allow online and offline modes in the web application. I am not sure how it will be done but I believe all the commands will be routed through this local server. The local server will then decide whether it accesses the local resources or the server.
Making a user install application on his system will defeat the whole idea behind SaaS.
Use Google Gears - I just checked how Google Docs work in offline mode. It installs Google Gears on the user's system which was pretty neat and fast and copies all the files locally. A link is provided to access the offline version. This seems like a good option to me as it integrates a local server, relational datastore and a worker pool in itself but is Google Gears mature enough to be used in production?
Has anyone worked/working on such an application. Ideas welcome.
EDIT #1:
I am not very familiar with Silverlight and whether it can be used in such a scenario.
EDIT #2: The following link mentions that SilverLight can be used to develop Offline applications Offline SilverLight
I am looking for expert comments from people who have used SilverLight in their development. Can user work offline? Can user re-open the same webpage after closing the browser window?
If you choose to let users install an app on their computer, I would consider developing a Windows Forms app instead of a web app, basically because this seem like a more logical solution. If you deploy the app using ClickOnce it is remarkably easy to keep the clients up to date.
From a user's point of view, I think that Gears is mature. I use in it Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs, pretty much without any problems. I don't know about the developer tools. It might help to use Google Clusure Library since it has methods specific for Google Gears.
Depending on the web browser that you need to support, you could also take a look at HTML 5. O'Reilly's online book Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has a chapter about making a web app work in offline mode.
Seems to me that "web application" and "offline mode" are a bit contradictory.
I have seen some examples of Silverlight being used in such a way however. And, at one time, I implemented a WinForms smart client application that worked in such a way. These days, though, I would definately look into Silverlight.