App size "Microsoft Project Siena"

I hope that's the correct forum.
A few minutes ago I saw that the app size of the app Microsoft Project Siena was 11 GB on my surface.
I uninstall the app and had much more space. I reinstalled the app and now the app size is 54,6 MB.
How is it possible that the app size was suddenly 11 GB?

I do not know. With my published apps I have no problems with the size.
Ok, when I have lots of media in an app, then the this siena file have a big size. But the normal Siena App, the app that creates the apps, the size increase, when I work with it and handle with several media.
When I look in the Settings of my Surface the app size is getting bigger and bigger (not from a sample app).
That's very strange. Is that maybe a general problem of the app? I think it is not normal, that the size of an installed app increase...

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Project Siena download

Hi. I'm trying to download the Project Siena app to install but I can't find where to download it. I've been here;
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/5ae47651-e8f3-4e41-aab7-e19ab1b80180,and here; http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/projectsiena/default.aspx,but there is no download link for the app. Can someone tell where(include link
please) to download Project Siena? Thanks.

Hi,
The Download link should be at the top of the page.
If you don't see it, it is possible that Siena is already installed on your machine. Try the following:
- Go to the start Menu
- Type Siena
Most likely you will see a search result saying "Microsoft Project Siena". You can decide to pin it to the start menu by right clicking on it.

URGENT: Can't publish app after November update - Project Siena

Hi,
I have several apps that I want to publish, but am unsuccessful.
After update in November came out my Siena refused to publish so I reinstalled it from the App Store just now. Even though I did this, in the new version, the same message keeps appearing.
Why can't I publish?
This is pretty urgent, as I need to present the apps in 24 hours to our customer. My ass is on the line...
Any help appreciated - BIG THANKS
Peter

Peter,
I'm not sure if you're working with a company issued device that may have restrictions which are causing you problems (we've seen this in the forums for previous versions) and considering you have a short turn-around, have you tried installing Project Siena
on another PC?
Another route would be to set up a virtual machine and install Siena. Microsoft offers 90 day virtual machines in various platforms that may help in getting things set up quicker:
https://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads
Thor

How to incorporate live tiles into a Project Siena app (kinda)

Hi guys,
I have been playing around with getting some live tiles into my project siena app (Astronomy Action Centre), and at last I have managed it.
What I did was as follows
Publish your app as normal and import it into Visual Studio
When you have it imported paste this code into the init.js file. I pasted mine into the following location of that file. Near the top of the file (just before the var statements)
CODE TO PASTE
var notifications = Windows.UI.Notifications;
                var recurrence = notifications.PeriodicUpdateRecurrence.hour;
                var urls = [
                    new Windows.Foundation.Uri("url1"),
                    new Windows.Foundation.Uri("url2"),
                    new Windows.Foundation.Uri("url3"),
                    new Windows.Foundation.Uri("url4"),
                    new Windows.Foundation.Uri("url5")
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END OF PASTE
What you need to do now is replace the url1,url2,url3,url4,url5 with data sources.
I got mine from http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/en
This site creates live tiles for your webpage but we are going to use the datasources for our app.
Enter the RSS details of the site that you want to have as a live tile into this site.
Here is the RSS url from my own site
http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/
follow the steps through to the last one and you will get a code like this
<meta
name="msapplication-TileColor"
content="#000000"/>
<meta
name="msapplication-notification"
content="frequency=30;polling-uri=http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=1;polling-uri2=http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=2;polling-uri3=http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=3;polling-uri4=http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=4;polling-uri5=http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=5;
cycle=1"/>
Now copy the links below in place of the url1,url2,url3,url4,url5 in the code we pasted into visual studio.
http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=1
http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=2
http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=3
http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=4
http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://www.viewfromascope.com/feed/&id=5
Now save and run your app, if you browse to your Start menu and pin your app you should see the live tiles updating.
the caveat is that you have no control over the layout of the tiles, it seems to work best in wide and square format, the large tile updates but keeps repeating the same news.
So there it is live tiles on a project siena app.
if anyone can add to this I would love to hear from you, or if you have any questions please let me know.
Latest Version of my own Project Siena App with live tiles
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/0c8cff77-1e0f-445b-9628-92fe602d2c98
Ronan

If you aren't going to use a live tile on an actual website, you don't have to use buildmypinnedsite dot com.
Here is a template. If you have multiple REST/RSS sources, you can use different sources for each of the 5 items that are cycled. They can be from different sites. You need to check if images in the feeds are enclosures. If they are, then the feed won't
work properly. You can use text and image based feeds or text only, just don't use any that have enclosed images. Here is a template you can copy and paste. replace the red text with your own customized information.
var notifications = Windows.UI.Notifications;
var recurrence = notifications.PeriodicUpdateRecurrence.HalfHour;
var urls = [
new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://whateverrssfeed1&id=1"),
new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://whateverrssfeed2&id=2"),
new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://whateverrssfeed3&id=3"),
new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://whateverrssfeed4&id=4"),
new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com/?feed=http://whateverrssfeed5&id=5")
notifications.TileUpdateManager.createTileUpdaterForApplication().enableNotificationQueue(true);
notifications.TileUpdateManager.createTileUpdaterForApplication().startPeriodicUpdateBatch(urls, recurrence);
-- Barb Bowman

My first Project Siena APP! - Cooking Utility Belt

Just started using Project Siena and I built my first app. What a fun experience. There was a bit of a learning curve and some additional documentation would have helped but the forum came through for me. Here is my app, check it out :)
Cooking Utility Belt
Tim

Doing some more research, I came across this in the free e-book from Microsoft Press, Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Second Edition):
For basic licensing and trial enforcement, the good news is that both are effortless: the app doesn’t need to do anything at all! A user cannot acquire your app without going through the Store, and even if he did manage to, he’d have to have a developer
license to install and run it. Furthermore, because the Store automatically tracks trial periods for apps, Windows will simply not launch an app once the trial is expired. Instead, Windows will redirect the user to the product’s page in the Store where the
user can purchase a full license.
What that means to me is that when submitting the app in the store you can select if it's a trial mode or not.
Although it's not as elegant of a solution with code, at least there isn't a concern of losing functionality when a new version of Siena is released, either!
Thor

Add project siena app to favorite key on keyboard

Hello and merry Christmas to everybody
Have anyone tried to add widows8 app as project sienna into a favourite key on your keyboard?
Sorry for asking that here but I haven't found better discussion for windows comfort 5000 keyboards or a solution on net

Hello,
As long as you stay in your app you can do the following in Siena.
Assuming you have your audioplayer on screen1. Set the start parameter of the player to "audiostart" and the loop to "true"
In the onVisible of the screen you can then add the following (you can add that to a button or something else too)
UpdateContext({startaudio:false});UpdateContext({startaudio:true})
That will keep on playing the audio regardless of the fact that you are moving away from the screen.
Just make sure that your parameter autopause is set to False (same with autostart).
Reading your post you want in to play even when moving completely away from the app (e.g. start doing something completely else).
I'm not sure that is possible today with Siena. If that's a function you want to add to the wishlist you can add it to
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2e1f9446-56b2-419a-9c17-7037d2cd6146/from-the-community-overview-of-requested-additional-functionality?forum=projectsiena
Regards
StonyArc
http://www.stonyarc.com http://www.xboxlivenation.com

My latest Project Siena App is now in the store

I decided to build yet another Project Siena App the other day when I was semi snowed in.
My NWS-NOAA Weather Prediction Mini Center Windows 8 app lets you quickly view the National Forecast Chart for three days, shows the Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts for up to 7 days, and view Excessive Rainfall Forecasts. It’s available now in the
Windows Store (for USA). You can read more about it (and my love for Project Siena) at
http://digitalmediaphile.com/index.php/2014/02/20/my-weather-prediction-mini-center-app-is-now-available/.
This very simple app went through store certification in record time yesterday. Made my head spin.
Submitted at 1:15pm
Approved at 2:10pm
Available at 2:45pm
All times above Eastern.
Main screen:
Can't wait to see what the next release of Project Siena brings. Hoping for Portrait view CSS support and Windows 8.1 target support.
-- Barb Bowman

On Tue, 6 May 2014 11:05:13 +0000, MonaTech wrote:
>In terms of styling what I do is
>
>1. create an excel file with 1 column titled num1 or something
>
>2. Beneath that add sequential numbers 1,2,3,4,5 (the numbers correspond to the number of pages in your gallery), create a table and save the file
>
>3. Add that file as a data source.
>
>4. Create a custom gallery and make set the items to the table,
>
>5. Start adding your elements to the first section of the gallery
>
>6. in the visible property add if(thisitem!num1=1,true,false)
>
>This will make that element appear on the first section of the gallery, if you put if(thisitem!num1=2,true,false) then it will appear in the second element and so on.
>
>It does get a little awkward when you start adding more elements but if you label each element correctly it makes live an awful lot easier.
>
>Using this method you can add items of different sizes and shapes to each element of the custom gallery. So you could make something like the bing news app if you like.
>
>I hope this helps, if you have any other questions please let me know, also I would love to see your siena forum app, I really like the layouts of your other apps and would be keen to see your app on the forum.
that's really cool. I like that alot.
After I saw your post about the app, I stopped playing with mine ;-) Maybe
I'll finish it... But since yours works, I didn't see any need <G> as I was not sure how to fix the messy HTML tags in the description. Like I said, MS has an RSS feed that leaves a lot to be desired.
-- Barb Bowman

Live Tile - Project Siena App

I understand that it is not possible to create / configure a live tile within Project Siena.
But is it possible to add this functionality once the project has been transferred to visual studio.
I have been looking online and have seen some examples of creating a live tile but I have no idea where the code should go within the project.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Ronan

Hi MonaTech,
as you've noticed Live Tiles are not supported in Siena Beta 2. If you want to invest time in experimenting with a homegrown solution in this area, I can provide a hint for a starting point. That said, please be aware that once you start modifying the published
package you are completely at your own risk and any modifications you do today are not guaranteed to work in the future as the layout of the published package is implementation detail and not an interface.
You can take a look at js/init.js in the published package. It contains the initialization logic of the published app and you might find it to be a useful starting point.
Hope this helps!
Manski

Surface Pro 3, Project Siena Apps, Need CSS for that form factor ASAP please

Now that the Surface Pro 3 is out, I really don't like the black bars that appear above and below Project Siena Apps.
I don't know enough to figure out how *I* can edit the CSS which currently states:
#publishedCanvas {
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    width: 1366px;
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    background-color: transparent;
but I'd like the code I should use (at my own risk, I know) to fix the CSS for all my apps.
Please, MS folks or anyone?
-- Barb Bowman

Now that the Surface Pro 3 is out, I really don't like the black bars that appear above and below Project Siena Apps.
I don't know enough to figure out how *I* can edit the CSS which currently states:
#publishedCanvas {
    /* TASK: 73670: Add support for different form factors. */
    width: 1366px;
    height: 768px;
    background-color: transparent;
but I'd like the code I should use (at my own risk, I know) to fix the CSS for all my apps.
Please, MS folks or anyone?
-- Barb Bowman

Want embedded Browser on my App by Project siena

how can i add embedded Browser on my App by Project siena ?

This version of Siena does not support an imbedded browser, however they are constantly updating Siena. You can still use Launch, which will split the window:
Launch(“http://www.bing.com”)
-Bruton

Project Siena for Personalized Apps

Duh! I've been bemoaning the lack of Windows Store Apps that work with the Insteon Hub that I use with some lights and motion sensors, etc. (home automation). And then I stumbled over
http://www.richstevenson.com/2014/01/06/insteon-direct-commands/ and realized that in less than half an hour (mostly getting and sizing a graphic)I could start solving the problem
and build something just for myself.
I know most folks will use Project Siena for business apps, but it strikes me that when anyone personally need a one of a kind app that this provides a fast solution if you can figure out what you need.
I'll add some screens to this for myself to do more things..
-- Barb Bowman

Nice work Barb... :)
Looking forward to the end of the month to the next edition of Siena :) then we can do even more! :) Keep up the good work!
Best regards Terje F - Norway

Project Siena app and analytics system

Hi,
how I could implement analytics system in my Projects Siena app?
Thanks,
Mantvydas

Hi Mantvydas,
Within Siena, there is no native support for instrumenting your app. However, once you publish your app from Siena and
convert to an *.appx package, that is consumable via Visual Studio, then you could look at leveraging technologies such as
AppInsights for Visual Studio Online to accomplish this.
AppInsights gives you full usage analytics, that informs you exactly how your app is being used and provides detailed performance data about your app. For more details about implementing such within your app, you could review
this comprehensive post from the Windows Apps Team.
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My 2 Project Siena Apps listed as New and Rising in Windows Store

Hmmn, my two latest Project Siena apps, GOES Satellite Imagery and Doppler Radar Mosaic Imagery are
listed as new and rising with some heavyweight products like BBC and Weather Channel. I must be hallucinating. I have no idea what being listed with such heavy hitters means, but...
-- Barb Bowman

Nice one Barb, congratulations

Using s SQL server as a data source for Project Siena (An AX SQL database more specificaly)?

I cant seem to find this information on the internet yet so I figured I would ask my question here.
I would like to pull data from a Dynamics AX sql database to use in a project siena app. I have heard that this is something that is planned for a future release of Siena but is there any way this can be done currently?
Thank you

Hi Philip,
It's not supported in the current version. The following thread from Vijay outlines some of the features targeted for the next release:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/405aed19-21b8-4a36-bf45-b1d962567c3b/some-functionality-in-the-next-siena-refresh?forum=projectsiena. As you can see, it will include read/write over web services. So, if your data is exposed using services,
you should be able to meet your requirements.
Thanks
Robin

I can't download Project Siena Beta3 from Store

Dear officers,
First of all thank you for developing "Project Siena" I was waiting for Beta3 for a long time. I am a little disappointed when I first saw whats new in the third Beta. I was waiting for Barcode / Text recognition (via camera) implementation. But
I am hopefully waiting to see it in the next versions. My problem is;
- I can not access to Windows Store through my Work-laptop.But I can install appx files by running with Powershell. Is there a place where I can download Beta3 in "*.appx" format?
-Or any other methots without the official Store is welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Oguz

I'm wondering if maybe there was an oversight and it just didn't get listed for your region?
Maybe the following would be a temporary work-around to get it installed - switch your region with the below help and maybe then you'll be able to see it / install?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/use-windows-store-country-region-help
(below text were steps I found in a different post - I don't recall where I found this as this was several days ago and came from a MS employee responding to a similar type of inquiry not related to Siena)
Some apps are unavailable in some countries or regions. In this case, if someone shared a link to an app with you, you’ll be able to see the app description page on the web but when you try to view the app in the Store, you’ll see a message that the app
isn’t available. To check your country or region setting perform the steps mentioned below:
a: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and tap Settings.
(If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Settings.)
b: Tap or click Change PC settings.
c: Tap or click Time and language, then tap Region and language
d: Under Country or region, look to see that your location is set correctly, and change it if it's not
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