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Joost van Schaik

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, .NET, Azure

An MVVM-friendly ‘tap-to-connect’ NFC socket network helper for Windows Phone 8

11 minute read

For my Windows Phone 8 game “Pull the Rope” I wrote a utility class to make pairing phones and obtaining a two-way communication channel a little bit e...

Playing sounds on Windows Phone using the MVVMLight Messenger

6 minute read

In my never-ending quest to preach the gospel of MVVM in general and MVVMLight in particular as the way to make a structured Windows Phone application I show...

Handling Windows Phone 8 NFC startup events using the MVVMLight Messenger

2 minute read

As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently playing around with NFC on Windows Phone 8. I peeked a little in the Bluetooth app to app sample at MSDN...

On blogging, sharing and commenting

2 minute read

This is not about code, but about something a fellow developer and blogger told me, which made me quite sad. It’s a kind of personal rant, so feel free to sk...

Preventing high speed socket communication on Windows Phone 8 going south when using async/await

3 minute read

Currently I am working on a Windows Phone 8 action game in which you can fight a kind of duel. This involves pairing the phones via NFC and then obtaining a ...