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Joost van Schaik ('LocalJoost')

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

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 ...

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,...