I am using Winjs(javascript for windows 8 app). what I want is to create a simple blob object from a specific url of my static image by giving the path. What is the solution? Any help will be appreciated....

Trying out Windows Universal apps with JavaScript I noticed the WinJS.Utilities.isPhone property is no longer available, which makes sense since there would be no reason to ask for that at runtime.  I do want to know just for testing purposes if ther...

I have an ItemTemplate which is set on a ListView:  <div class="commentTileTemplate" data-win-control="WinJS.Binding.Template">     <div class="commentTileControl" data-win-control="WinJS.UI.HtmlControl" data-...

I want to let users upload photos to Facebook in my image viewer app. As seen in this post, Facebook Graph API - upload photo using JavaScript, I have to encode my photos as multipart/form-data to be able to upload them. How to archive this encoding...

My app is created with Javascript. I need it to support in-app purchase for feature unlocking.  From the documentation, it looks really simple. However, when I tries to implement it. I noticed that after returning S_OK from CurrentAppSimulator.reques...

I have the following code in a standard Windows 8 Javascript Store App:  var test = document.getElementById("testButton"); test.addEventListener("click", function () { var mailto = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("mailto:?to=my.address...

I have a metro app developed with WinJS in VS2012 and I want to open this address  window.location = "http://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:XXXX/test/AU/jsp/AU000007.jsp";   this works ok, opens the webpage on new browser from my metro app  But I want to add...

I looked at the Controls_ListViewWorkingWithDataSources MSDN sample to see how to remove an item from a WinJS.Binding.List and here's their solution. Please tell me there's an easier way.  if (list2.selection.count() > 0) {     list2.selec...

I know that the files in the bld and bin folders are not what are being referenced by the deployed app (I can tamper with them and they have no effect on the app the next time I launch it from the start screen), so what are they for and what's th...

this is driving me up the wall. I cannot figure out how to make the listview's height automatic.  i.e. have the listview's height extend in order to occupy all the space it needs and have the outer container offer a overflow-y scroll feature....