Tag: windows 8.1

  • WinRT WebView with Custom User-Agent

    Saw a conversation on Twitter about this and thought I’d post a quick snippet. If you want to open a website in a WebView control with a fake User Agent, here’s the code to do so: [code language=”csharp”] HttpRequestMessage httpRequestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, new Uri(“http://facebook.com”)); httpRequestMessage.Headers.Append(“User-Agent”, “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML,…

  • New Wi-Fi Drivers for Surface Pro on Windows 8.1

    I recently upgraded my Surface Pro to use the final version of Windows 8.1. Ever since that upgrade, I was having a lot of problems with the Wi-Fi essentially hanging, which required me to disconnect and reconnect, sometimes as often as every couple of minutes. After some searching, I found new drivers for the Wi-Fi…

  • Surface Pro with Windows 8.1 – Snapping Three Apps

    I have been playing with Windows 8.1 on my Surface Pro for the last couple of weeks and one of the things I’ve been curious about is the new Snap functionality. I remembered hearing at Build 2013 that a 1920×1080 screen could snap three different apps at the same time, but I wasn’t able to…

  • Windows 8.1: Portrait App Design – Not Quite There Yet

    I’ve been using Windows 8.1 on the Acer Iconia W3 for a couple of days now, and overall the experience has been decent. The W3 isn’t the best tablet I’ve ever used, but it’s not horrid. One thing I’ve been a bit disappointed with, though, is the design and behavior of some apps when used…