DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

Senior Mixed Reality Software Architect. Mixed Reality, Windows Development & Windows Insider MVP. Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, HoloLens, Quest, Unity, .NET, Azure

Styles in Xamarin Forms don’t work properly in UWP .NET Native - here is how to fix it

5 minute read

Intro Xamarin Forms is awesome. If you have learned XAML from WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Universal Windows Apps or UWP, you can jump right in using the...

Building a dynamic floating clickable menu for HoloLens/Windows MR

12 minute read

Intro In the various XAML-based platforms (WPF, UWP, Xamarin) that were created by or are now part of Microsoft we have the great capability to perform datab...

Building a floating HoloLens ‘info screen’ - 2: adding the C# behaviours

10 minute read

Intro In the first installment of this 2-part blog post we have created the UI of the info screen, now we are going to build the dynamics. First we will make...

A HoloLens helper class to get a position dead ahead of the user–on a physical object or at a max distance

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This is a little tidbit I use in a lot of apps, for instance in the CubeBouncer and for floating info screens in my other apps. Basically I want to know a po...

Building a floating HoloLens ‘info screen’ - 1: making the Unity assets