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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

Binding shapes to the Windows Phone 8.1 Here Maps control

8 minute read

Intro Every time I meet someone from the Windows Phone Map team (or get into contact with them in some other way) I talk about the importance of being able t...

A behavior to show a MessageDialog from a MVVMLight viewmodel in Universal apps–with callbacks

6 minute read

Of course you are now all writing MVVM based apps, after all I have been advocating that for years, and you are listening this here old venerable MVP, right?...

A behavior to deal with UI consequences of full screen and Software Keys in Windows Phone 8.1

6 minute read

This week I was presented with an interesting challenge. Using this technique, I used the whole screen for my app. The problem was I had not anticipated a De...

The Microsoft Band and me–three weeks later

12 minute read

Why? How? I will be honest – I wasn’t really thinking the whole thing about wearables is more than a bit overhyped marketing stuff and that I personally woul...

Executing and testing geofencing background tasks in Universal Apps

16 minute read

Intro On October 18th the Dutch and Belgian Windows Platform Development communities got together for an event called “Lowlands WPdev 2014”- yours truly was ...