DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

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

Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1–geocoding, tombstoning–and testing

10 minute read

After my post about reverse geocoding I set out to make a little app to demonstrate routing in Windows Phone 8. The demo app went quite out of hand, so I dec...

ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone

10 minute read

Long long time ago I wrote how to drive animations from your ViewModel using DataStateBehavior, and I explicitly stated this was the only way to do it, since...

Enabling basic OpenLayers pinch zooming for Internet Explorer 10 touch events

3 minute read

A phenomenon described by the term ‘webkit monoculture’ is causing quite some concern in the web development community. A lot of web developers are basically...

Unit testing async Windows Phone 8 code on the UI thread with VS 2012.2 CTP4

3 minute read

This may be the most cryptic acronym-laden title I ever used for a blog post, but it quite exactly describes what I was trying to do yesterday. The Visual S...

Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight

4 minute read

Having worked in Geographical Information Systems over 20 years, I can tell you rightfully the new Windows Phone 8 mapping and location abilities are more th...