DotNetByExample - The Next Generation - DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

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

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 ...

Returning Task from a Windows Runtime Component

less than 1 minute read

A very short tip this time, that took me some time to find out. You will need a Windows Runtime Component if you want, for instance, host a background task i...

Making the Application Bar display on of top of the UI in Windows Phone 8.1 Store Apps

1 minute read

In Windows Phone 7, 8 and 8.1 Silverlight apps this is very easy: you just set the Opacity of the Application bar to any value less than 1 as described here,...

Visualizing geofences as circles on the map in Universal Apps

6 minute read

Intro If you tried to work with geofences, you may have encountered this problem. You want to have an easy way to show where the darn things are on the map, ...