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I'm going through the Windows 10 Development for Absolute Beginners course. Really loving it! 

I'm nearing completion of the project, now going through Bob Tabor's HeroExplorer app. I'm at the point where he's processing things in the MarvelFacade class, handling getting characters and making sure that the path exists and that the path isn't equal to this:

http://1.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/b/40/image_not_available

The only problem is that URL doesn't go anywhere now, either. I brought up 2 browsers and just testing seeing it, but got HTTP 404 errors when I tried. Does anyone know where the correct path is to image_not_available?

Title Text is 36 Pt, FontSize will be 48.

I've just finished what I believe is module 79, integrating Cortana into a UWP app. It failed pretty badly. Following Bob Tabor's example, I put the following code into the constructor of the App class in App.xaml.cs:

public App()
{
 Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsAppInitializer.InitializeAsync(
  Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsCollectors.Metadata |
  Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsCollectors.Session);
 this.InitializeComponent();
 this.Suspending += OnSuspending;
}

Visual Studio does not like that code at all! Especially it doesn't like the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights... I've got a red squiggly line under all three in the above code. What am I missing? My guess is a reference but I've no idea what the reference is.

I'm still working my way through Bob Tabor's "Window 10 Development for Absolute Beginners" course. I'm in the section in which he demonstrates adding ads to the AlbumCoverMatchGame. I've downloaded and installed the Mircosoft's Ad SDK. Then got back into VS 2015 and opened AlbumCoverMatchGame project. Next I right-mouse button clicked on the AlbumCoverMatchGame project and selected Add | Connected Service. However, there is no Ad Mediator service now. Now I have to possible categories of ads, either Microsoft or Salesforce. Clearly Salesforce is wrong in this instance, so I selected Microsoft. However, under Microsoft there's only 2:

HockeyApp
Office 365 APIs

How do I get to the Ad Mediator?

How to create a custom adapter like android, in which i can operate on data according to my needs. Like if a object is of type A then get the data specific to A and display them , or if it is of type B then do accordingly. Currently I am unable to this by data binding. Please guide