DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

Senior Mixed Reality Software Architect. Windows Development MVP. Mixed Reality, HoloLens, Unity, .NET, Azure

Displaying Microsoft Band heart rate via Raspberry PI2 using Mono, C#, OWIN and a Windows Phone

12 minute read

Intro – what? WHY? As regular readers of my blog might have seen, I got myself a Raspberri PI 2 and a Sunfounders sensor kit, and was happily dabbling a litt...

Controlling a LED with a Raspberry PI 2 using Mono and C#

5 minute read

My fellow MVP Peter Nowak from Germany pointed me to this awesome kit on Amazon.de that has this vast array of sensors in it. It comes with 37 sensors and p...

Starting an OWIN ASP.NET server on Raspberry PI 2 automatically at boot up

3 minute read

Inspired by the buzz that engulfed the Microsoft community when it was announced the new Raspberry PI 2 was going to support Windows 10 I actually got myself...

Using a full-size none-stretched background image in a Xamarin.Forms app

3 minute read

Intro I always like to use a kind of a translucent background image to my app’s screens, that makes it look a bit more professional than just a plain single-...

Keeping popups above the bottom app bar in Windows 8.1 store apps

2 minute read

Recently, I wrote about the KeepFromBottomBehavior that helped me to deal with popups that appeared on the bottom of the screen, but were covered by the app ...