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Joost van Schaik ('LocalJoost')

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, Snap Spectacles, Lens Studio, .NET, Azure

MovedCheeseException–where is StorageFolder.TryGetItemAsync in Windows Phone 8.1?

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A quickie this time: when I finally started porting WpWinNl over to Windows Phone 8.1 (sorry, I was busy testing, preparing a talk and the Windows Phone Code...

A screen-size independent scroll-into-view pane for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps

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In this article I introduced MoveObjectBehavior and a way to use it to make Facebook-app like scroll-into-view panes. All very nice, but with a minor drawbac...

Windows Phone 8.1–moving your cursor. Don’t panic!

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No code today, but a simple how-to. I was caught off-guard by this, a lot of people – including people who I concern to be power users, are pretty much confu...

Code sharing strategies between Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 with the new Universal Windows apps

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With the announcement of the new SDK for Windows Phone Microsoft now really starts to stress the companionship of Windows and Windows Phone, and makes it a l...

Drawing circles on Windows Phone Here Maps and Windows Store Bing Maps

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One of the areas where the mapping systems for Windows Phone and Windows 8 are lacking, is the ability to draw circles. In particular in Windows Store apps, ...