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Windows 8.1 Tip: Download a Windows 8.1 ISO with a Windows 8 Product Key It's the Windows 8 .1 Upgrade tip you've all been waiting for: The ability to download a Windows 8.1 ISO—a file from which you can make DVD- or USB-based bootable media—using your legally acquired Windows 8 (as in 8.0) product key. Thanks to everyone who wrote in with this tip via email, comments on this site, and Twitter. It's hard to know where the tip originated, but I want to be clear that this is not something I came up with personally, and this workaround is widely available on other sites and blogs as well. Here goes. As noted in Windows 8.1 Upgrade Woes , Microsoft provides a handy...

Simple media player app in a Windows 8 Apps. In this article we create a simple media player app in a Windows 8 Apps. Windows 8 Apps have a good control for playing videos in applications. You can play videos in aWindows 8 Apps using C# or any other supported language. In this section we see a video app in a Windows 8 Apps using C#. We integrated a media control in an application and use several method to make it a more attractive media player. To embed a video in your application we use the MediaElement class. We use a media eleme nt control of XAML. We also create customized controls to give more functionality like play, pause, volume, enable full-screen mode video. We can set the source of media file either at design time or you can use a FileOpenPicker object to enable the user to choose a file from the local file system. In this article we are creating a small media app in a Windows 8 Apps using C# with rich user functionality. ...