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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

Returning Task from a Windows Runtime Component

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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

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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

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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, ...

Simple workaround for “Design view is unavailable for x64 and ARM target platforms”

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When you are developing for Windows Phone or Windows and you are faced with using a native component (for instance the Bing Maps control on Windows, or the S...

Querying the Windows Phone 8.1 map when there are child objects over it

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With the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK came (yet again) an improved Map Control. This brought, among other things, the MapIcon. In ye olde days, the map could only d...