How to disable display timeout in WinRT

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

For those of you who are building multimedia related apps, you’ll want to consider disabling the display timeout of the user’s device. This prevents the screen from dimming or locking while the user is playing/recording media.

In my case, I have a view where the user is doing some video recording. so I don’t want the screen to time out on that page

1) Create a class scope variable::

private DisplayRequest dRequest;

Display on DVLUP

How to disable display timeout in WinRT