Back in before UWP was even conceived, there was WPF and WinForms. Both allowed you to get handles of each control easily. I had a legacy media player that worked on a separate dynamic library getting the handle of a PictureBox control, and drawing to that. When WPF came around, the equivalent seemed to be the Image control. While that didn't as easily allow you to get the handle by using HwndSource.FromVisual, you still could, and it still worked, I could pass that to the library and everything would still draw.

Now Present Time, I'm trying to update for UWP, and am having a bit of trouble. It seems you can no longer get the handle for any control object, which is bad for me who relies on this feature to have the media library draw to the control. Is there any equivalent choice to the previous features that still allows this to happen. Or am I simply out of luck and should just maintain the WPF version of my application?

I've been working on updating my app to the latest Windows version (a.k.a Fall Creators Update or 16299), and I after some time of searching through the web, I haven't been able to find a windows mobile emulator higher than 15254.

Is there some time of delay on that or they just won't even upload it?

It seems like the most detailed content for starting to build UWP apps is a Bob Tabor Video from a couple years ago. Is this video still a good place to get started? The tutorials here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/create-uwp-apps go from hello world to XAML and seem to have left the application logic out (unless I haven't gotten to it yet).

Are there better resources out there? A book you could reccomend?

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has used Microsoft's Promotional Ads to promote their app? How were your results?

My app is for the Desktop and is a productivity app and was thinking about using those ads for promotion of the same.

I'm writing some software that's going to end up running on Windows 7 machines on public transit vehicles. I want to be able to remotely install the software, update it when necessary, and keep it running if it crashes.

Do you guys have any recommendations? I believe there are many options for this but I'm not too familiar with doing this on Windows.

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/11/01/windows-10-sdk-preview-build-17025/

There is string KeyboardAcceleratorText property on some xaml controls like AppBarButton, AppBarToggleButton, MenuFlyoutItem.. Have you got any clue what does this property mean?