Part 19: Implementing the Share Contract (Channel 9)

Part 19: Implementing the Share Contract

Posted: Oct 26, 2012 at 9:29 AM

By: Dan Fernandez, Bob Tabor

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The Windows 8 charms can be tightly integrated into our app. Here, we implement the Share Contract, allowing users to select a recipe and share the recipe text and images with other apps like email, etc.

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gokulit

Dec 27, 2012 at 10:35 AM

"When i am executing !!!Working with contracts: Search and share!!!! some errors occurred below i mentioned...

Error 1 Type 'ContosoCookbook.ItemDetailPage' already defines a member called 'OnDataRequested' with the same parameter types
gokulit

Dec 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM

your videos awesome...**************************************************************.thank you sir
BobTabor

Dec 28, 2012 at 9:54 AM

@gokulit: Since you saw an error that says a given class "already defines a member called ..." I would say you may have either pasted in code / typed in the same code TWICE. I would search your entire project (Ctrl+Shift+F ... Find in Files) for the name of that method ... "OnDataRequest" and see if you have it more than once. That's where I would start debugging. Let me know if you get further.
Avi

Mar 01, 2013 at 10:59 AM

Is there a way to add facebook as a share option in the charm menu ?
BobTabor

Mar 01, 2013 at 11:25 AM

@Avi: I don't believe so (perhaps someone could comment if they have it working.) I would think that Facebook would need to have created a Windows Store app, and (b) implement the Share contract. If that happens, then yes, definitely.
Sounds like an opportunity for an enterprising third party to build something like that.