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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

Building for both: a tap+send/Bluetooth connection helper for Windows Phone 8 AND Windows 8.1

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On my way to the November 2013 MVP Summit, at Matthijs Hoekstra’s house in Sammamish, and back again in the Netherlands I spent considerable time trying to g...

Build for both-Reflection bits & pieces for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

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This is a bit of an odd post – it’s the things I learned while porting SilverlightSerializer 2 from Windows Phone to Windows 8 Store apps code. For those who...

Build for both-Converters for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.1 Store apps

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Our Dutch DPE Rajen Kishna has been quite heavily banging the ‘build for both’ drum for some time now, and after having spent quite some time on exclusive Wi...

An MVVM friendly tap+send and Bluetooth connection helper for Windows Phone 8

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Why?Early this year I blogged about TtcSocketHelper, an MVVM friendly helper object that allowed you connect two Windows Phone 8 devices to each other using ...

Introducing Win8nl for Windows 8.1–kissing WinRtBehaviors goodbye

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Updated November 11, 2013It was at my very first MVP Summit in February 2012 that I learned that Windows 8 XAML was not to have any behaviors. I remember dis...