When building a universal application using Windows 10 (or Windows 8.1 WinRT), is it possible to force the application's main window to maximise on launch? This is obviously natural behaviour for the application when running on a mobile device but not when running on the desktop.
This is certainly possible using WinForms:
- How do I make a WinForms app go Full Screen
- How to display a Windows Form in full screen on top of the taskbar?
But I haven't so far managed to find anything in the Microsoft Documentation about this for Windows 10.
Best Answer
An app can request to start as full screen by setting the ApplicationView.PreferredLaunchWindowingMode to ApplicationViewWindowingMode.FullScreen
Roberth discussed this along with other view and window size issues in his Build session Navigation and Windowing in Universal Windows Apps