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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

Behavior to force TextBox model update to prevent trouble with the ApplicationBar

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A small quicky this time: Problem: TextBox, Text property bound to a string in my ViewModel I type text in the TextBox I click a “Save” button on my Appli...

Templating a XAML CheckBox to a thumbs-up/down control using Expression Blend

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Preface The checkbox has been been around in the Graphical User Interface for as long as I can remember doing GUI – since the early 90’s I guess. You know wh...

JSON deserialization with JSON.net - basics

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I’ve been contemplating an article about handling JSON for some time now, but it turned out to be a rather long article. So I’d thought to try something new,...

A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string

5 minute read

Note: an update to this article has been written here On New Year’s Eve I can’t help but writing this last bit of 2011: yesterday on a #wp7nl developer’s mee...

Re-imagining the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background

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This blog turns out not only to be a collection of how-to samples but also a record of my evolution as a Windows Phone 7 developer. At the end of my previous...