App in a Snap

Hello,
I trie to install the app in a snap template, but this does't work. I tried it on several computers, but with no result.
Is there a way to get the template not as an exe-file to install?
I would like to use this in my lessons at school, so i need an urgent solution.
Thanks

Hi Fons,
Since this forum is to discuss the VS IDE, so I’m afraid that it is not the correct forum.
Do you mean that you download a snap template from a web site? If so, my suggestion is that you could post this issue to the site where you download it.
In addition, I also found a blog or some cases which are similar to this issue:
http://blog.rajenki.com/2013/04/app-in-a-snap-your-first-windows-8-app/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b642ef2a-d47b-481c-b58d-5519ce8c8633/app-snapping-in-desktop-install?forum=windowsdeveloperpreviewgeneral
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/84940b98-7e99-4a77-9e69-804deaa19b1e/windows-8-app-snap-not-working?forum=windowsdeveloperpreviewgeneral
Based on the Announcement
here:
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Maybe you could get useful information.
Anyway, since it is not the VS IDE issue, I am moving your question to the moderator forum ("Where is the forum for..?"). The owner of the forum will direct you to a right forum.
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This would appear to be a genuine issue with the 1520. Do not have one so could not comment
- Yes indeed i can grant you it's genuine. Haven't sent an email in the last 2 weeks. Just too frustrating.
I know there is several Chinese language settings but as I am not Chinese could not comment beyond this is not something Nokia could do anything about as it is a core OS issue and not a hardware/firmware one.
- Well, it's easy to see if you have doubts. Enter: Settings-Keyboard and go search for any form of input that says "Traditional Chinese with Pinyin (PinYIn is the romanization of chinese characters. You type say "Wo" and the chinese character for "I" pops up amongst other choices. This has been existing from day 1 in any decent keyboard. It has been requested at MS suggestion board 3 years ago. Is still to be implemented. I find it hard to think how they can sell these phones here (especially considering the relations between China and Taiwan and the fact they use simplified/traditional respectively). It's not only a mad marketing move, it's also politically sensitive. No one normal does that here, believe me.
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- Sure, then do one thing. Download any swiping keyboard on an Android device and then compare the speed at which you type and amend words. The WP keyboard is primitive. The fact you can't resize it combined with the screen oversensitiveness make it useless. Other Nokias are much much better, but you can't beat a real swipe keyboard, especially if you type as a profession. How can someone use such a keyboard on a device in 2014 is beyond me and and anyone else who has used an Android but even a Blackberry in old times. It's simply inefficient compared to anything else out there. Then we can argue on what we like or not but surely not on its lack of productivity compared to else (whatever else)
As long as the app does not use it's own code anywhere you want to enter text tap and hold to have the cursor appear and swipe to the location wanted.
- Then do a test. Take an email sent by someone else. Then go to the portion of text he sent you in the REPLY mail you are writing and try to select one of the SENDER's words. You'll see it's impossible. Then move down and try to select a single word of your reply. You'll see it can be done. Different menus pop up based on where you are or which app you are.
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Never used it, as far as I heard especially since tha latest (recent) update this got a lot better)
You don't. Try to be a foreigner permanently based abroad and the usefulness of these tools (Dictionaries, translators, etc.) will appear immediately, especially when you have to handle or even study characters based on ideograms. Now, Android (Which i insist in saying i don't like due to their philosophy), offers not only a good mobile translating app (including a function where you take a picture then just scroll your finger on the words you want to be translated and translation pops up in a moment) but if you don't like it you can also find a wide choice of tools (Pleco and Hanping being among them and their developers having no intention to expand on WP for now and some not even in the future). In this perspective, what for you is useless or secondary, for people like me (and other expats who do business and work abroad) is a killer application. Google got it. Microsoft and Nokia, it seems, don't.
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So what do you do? Go to Starbucks and tell everyone to stop using the free Wi-Fi because your Nokia 1520 needs a dedicated connection and i threaten to suit Starbucks for not letting the King have the whole bandwidth for itself?
Galaxy works fine. Nokia doesn't, especially when broadband gets weaker (Taipei has Wi-Fi also on Metro wagons and any restaurant or other outlet you may think of). Core point is everyone is there reading their content on their mobiles. I am there trafficking with settings and **bleep**. Ended up using my Galaxy which works fine.
Those are not Nokia owned nor operated stores, go complain to them
Let me explain you a basic of marketing so you understand when it's not the case to defend a brand beyond reasonable limits even when you administer their blog.
If i, as a customer, enter a BLUE SHOP carrying a big, huge, NOKIA brand with all people wearing Nokia shirts i (and the other 23 million users who almost stopped to buy Nokia in Taiwan) assume whoever is running it, is running it on behalf of Nokia (Officially or unoficially doesn't matter as they get the license to sell from Nokia in any case). So, if your licensee works good, people are happy and buy more; if the staff shows signs of laziness, arrogance, treating adults without respect, showing ignorance on device's issues (They didn't even know about the global issue of oversensitiveness or about keyboards...the phone was an alien in their hands), people RUN. And i did RUN.
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Test the device simulating the job a professional user doess (typing mails all the time, text messages, interacting with web content, copy/paste, translating and sharing data, sending data to other apps in a snap), then multiply that for 7 days a week and then experience the frustration accumulating day after day. In my case, this is further amplified by the fact that i come from a device that has spoilt me allowing me to do things in a snap.
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Multitask Bar: Mouse to the top left corner, then slide your cursor down the left side of the screen. (Right click closes or snaps left or right here as well)
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Thanks for the help as support does not seem to be very technical.
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lynnejohn wrote:
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As has always been with BB, the carriers control the OS release cycle to their end users (as shown via the automated means -- on-device update and Link)...some approve newer versions more quickly than others. The methods I provided above allow you to ignore what your carrier has approved and install any version you want.
lynnejohn wrote:
I can load up my Windows 7 virtual machine and try to use Sachesi but how do most folks here determine what the best version is for them?
By reading what others experience. I can say that for Z30 .3177 and now .3247 are the best...things are much more stable than in any prior versions (and I "push" things quite hard).
I have no idea if Sachesi or AutoLoader will function via a VM on a MAC.
lynnejohn wrote:
     Another question is which is the best backup for OS10? At this point I'm not thinking very highly of Blackberry Link
LINK remains the sole method I know of to back up the actual databases and configuration items...I know of no other tools that can access that area of the device. The best method is to use LINK to backup all that it can, and then also do a manual USB copy of the entire contents of your Device and Media card areas. And also to have full documentation of all of your preferred configuration items, email accounts, etc...just in case you wind up in a situation where the restore re-introduces the very corruption you are trying to remove (this is a known situation...hence the way I recommended above that you proceed). Of course, you should also be using the most recent version of LINK.
lynnejohn wrote:
and I'd like a stable way to do it so that I could try some of the newer, more experimental versions of the OS.
Sorry, not for discussion here on this site...other sites on the Internet are devoted to such things. But, as per the Ts and Cs of this site, only production releases of the OS and devices are open for discussion here. But, as for backup/restore, the methods previously outlined remain as described...what you do regarding the OS itself is your choice to make.
lynnejohn wrote:
One last think does Sachesi take care of the Android SDKs?
Sachesi is completely non-destructive...all it does is replace the BAR files that represent the core OS and associated core apps. It does not touch anything else, and hence does not destroy your data, configuration, added apps, etc. In contrast, AutoLoader is fully destructive, and it is necessary to reload everything afterwards.
Occam's Razor nearly always applies when troubleshooting technology issues!
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