[#VS11] Windows 8 and the Speech Recognition are brutal enemies when you are developing #METRO applications

Buenas,

today is I’ll try to share an experience of a typical Friday. Almost at the end of the development of a METRO application (cool not?), and doing a couple of tests in environments like laptops, tablets, touch. When I try some configurations and tests in the emulator I find the following error:

Note: if you’re wondering why I had to use the emulator of Windows 8, I encourage you to try to move from landscape to portrait a 5 Kilos HP Touch .

So taht’s it, the emulator can’t launch everything ok if you have activated Microsoft Speech and in case you need both, you’ll take a good annoyance.

But of course, is Friday better dig between encouraging phrases of Friday and move forward with a

Problems are always showing up, but solutions are also always showing up.

The more objective solution is to chante to a new religion “the creationism” and try to create an extension for the emulator that supports audio device. The more realistic option, is to test the application in the emulator without the audio features and remember the mother of Sinofsky (or as type the name of the boss of W8).

That Yes, with any of the 2 options already can have the application running with ~~all~~ the features we need.