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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

Data binding shapes to the WinRT Bing Maps control – coming from Windows Phone

12 minute read

Disclaimer: this is not a 101 article. It requires understanding of the basic idea about MVVM, data binding, the MVVMLight messenger, and the use of behavior...

A WinRT behavior to turn a FlipView into a kind of Windows 8 Panorama

8 minute read

(UPDATED for RTM August 18 2012) One of the most beautiful controls of Windows Phone is the Panorama. It’s ideal for showing a lot related content on a smal...

A WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand

5 minute read

This is deprecated. Please use the official behaviors SDK now. See here for a simple migration guide Updated September 2 2012 with two sample applications &...

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

3 minute read

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...