I had a bit of a late night last night. I had just downloaded the Windows Live SDK and wanted to try it out. I took the Voice Memo application tha tI put on CodeProject.com and tried to add a feature to upload recordings to Skydrive. In the SDK there is a SignInButton controll and setting some parameters on this control along with responding to an event the control has is all that is needed to to make use of it. When I ran my program it failed with an error about the WebBrowserControl neededing to be on the visual tree before it is used.
You cannot call WebBrowser methods until it is in the visual tree."
This was a little confusing to me at first. I am not using a web browser control anywhere in my program. So I played with the parameters on the control trying to see if I could change the response I was getting. After continual failure I posted a question on the Windows Live Connect support forums. One of the Microsoft employees asked me if I could make a simple project demonstrating the problem. When I made my simple project the error would not occur. I then realized what was causing the problem. The Voice Memo application has had its permissions appropriately reduced. But those reduced permissions did not include what was needed by the login control. I ran the Windows Phone Marketplace Test kit and it told me the other permissions that I needed; ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT and ID_CAP_NETWORKING. After adding those permissions it worked like a charm!
Rather than sweep my mistake under a rug I thought I would share it in the hopes that posting this will save some one from having made the simple yet time consuming oversight that I had
Tags: Windows Phone, Windows Live