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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

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

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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...

Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors

4 minute read

Some time ago I blogged about the Safe Event Detachment ‘pattern’ for behaviors and even included a snippet that made implementing this pattern easier. When ...

Using MVVMLight, ItemsControl, Blend and behaviors to make a ‘heads up compass’

15 minute read

When I talk of the MVVM pattern, people usually think of business objects that get wrapped by ViewModels which get data bound to a user interface. Usually th...

Carpe Lumia!

12 minute read

Last updated November 10 2011 You know that band you used to love when you were in your teens? They really rocked your adolescent years. They rocked like hel...