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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

Using a provisional WinRT port of SilverlightSerializer to store state in MVVMLight ViewModels

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Over 1.5 years ago I showed how to store your Windows Phone application state (‘tombstoning’) using SilverlightSerializer by Mike Talbot. In my quest to leve...

Reflection in WinRT: use Rx Extensions for dynamically adding event handlers

1 minute read

Suppose you want to add an event handler, but you don’t know up front which event. Admittedly, this is a bit of an edge case, but I have used it in a behavio...

Reflection in WinRT: DeclaredProperties vs GetRuntimeProperties caveat

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I suppose this is part of some FM I did not R, but I would like to point it out in case some other sod wastes just as much time on it as me. I embarked upon ...

NavigationService for WinRT

4 minute read

"If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton It was only 1.5 years ago, but it...

Behavior to make Bing Maps view area bindable

2 minute read

The Bing Maps control in Windows Phone 7 is pretty versatile but does not always play along very well with data binding. You can bind ZoomLevel and MapCenter...