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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

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

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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 ...

Passing event arguments to the WinRT EventToCommandBehavior

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This week my fellow MVP Scott Lovegrove contacted me and asked if and how he could pass the result of an event to my WinRT EventToCommandBehavior and/or Even...

Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone 8 and the 2001 submission error

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You can read the whole story if you like reading, but this whole blog post comes down to one piece of advice: If you value your sanity, do not, under any cir...

A WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand (take 2)

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(Updated with sample code January 19 2013) Some time ago I posted a WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand. This behavior cunningly looked for the command na...

Data binding shapes to the new Windows Phone 8 Map control (and more)

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A little history When I accepted the invitation from MADNbe to talk about Maps and MVVM on September 20 early in the summer (or what was supposed to be the s...