DotNetByExample - The Next Generation - DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

Senior Mixed Reality Software Architect, Mixed Reality & Windows Development MVP. Talks about Mixed/Augmented Reality Cross platform MR development, HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2, Quest, Unity, .NET, Azure

Using system accent color brush from code in Windows 10 UWP

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A very short one this time. I wanted to give some UI element the same color as the accent color, but I wanted to use it from code, not from XAML, as written ...

Using an Azure Service bus queue for two-way (IoT) communication

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<h4>Part 2 of Reading temperatures & controlling a fan with a RP2, Azure Service Bus and a Microsoft Band</h4> <p>IntroIn this post I...

Reading temperatures & controlling a fan with a RP2, Azure Service Bus and a Microsoft Band (1)

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Part 1 - Idea, architecture, hardware shopping list and hardware configuration Sometimes simple ideas have a tendency to balloon almost out of control, and t...

Windows 10 maps part 5 - styles and 3D

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IntroIn part 5 of this series I will show two seemingly unrelated things - the map "styles" and 3D maps. From a code perspective this is, just like last time...

Microsoft are not spying on your hard disk because there is nothing to gain - and everything to loose

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There is a debating technique that is called "reductio ad absurdum" which demonstrates the validity of a statement by proving that the opposite is impossible...