A Universal Windows Application

Ever since I attended the Build 2015 conference last spring I was tempted to write a new Universal Windows Application, which runs on a potential huge number of devices that are all part of a humongous eco system supported by Windows 10.

I don't always watch movies on my PC, but when I do, I use DarkScreen!

Here was my problem: My setup consists of a desktop with 2 rather large screens. When I watch a movie on one of the screens the second screen still shows the desktop and is very distracting. This app runs in full screen mode and blacks out the second screen or any other screen for that matter. The screen turns completely dark after a period of no activity on the DarkScreen window.

DarkScreen screenshot

 

Publishing the application to the Windows store was a very easy process and after about 12 hours the application was available for download to all users.

It was very unfortunate that Microsoft decided to unpublish the application, after a while of inactivity.