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

Building multi-resolution popups in an Universal App

3 minute read

With the advent of Windows Phone 8.1 multiple resolution are now also becoming a fact of life for Windows Phone developers (as they already were for Windows ...

Messaging class for detecting and broadcasting that your Universal app is running in the background

1 minute read

Some time ago I discovered that you can trap Window.Current.VisibilityChanged in a Windows 8 app to check if the app was running in the background, and that ...

Introducing WpWinl 2.0.0 (prerelease version)

2 minute read

Today I have decided to take the plunge – I have released an early version of WpWinNl 2.0.0 to NuGet. This introduces quite some changes. To start with, WpWi...

Using Fody.PropertyChanged for automatic PropertyChangedEvents and model-to-viewmodel communication

8 minute read

When you are working with MVVM, you are faced with a couple of interesting challenges. Usually you have something like this: You see a lot of properties with...

Fix for being unable to rename files after applying Visual Studio 2013 update 2

less than 1 minute read

A couple of people – me included – have been suffering from the fact that, after they applied Visual Studio 2013 update 2, it became impossible to rename fil...