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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

Safe event detachment ‘pattern’ for behaviors

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For the past few weeks I’ve been hacking away at my Windows Phone 7 game and noticed something odd. The objective is to intercept moving objects on the scree...

Preventing objects made invisible by data binding to show up initially

2 minute read

Currently I am in the process of writing a small Windows Phone 7 game . It sports a ‘game over’ panel with a ‘play again’ button and it’s visibility is contr...

Bing Maps control with MVVMLight on Windows Phone 7

18 minute read

This article appeared originally in the March 2011 issue of .Net Magazine – in Dutch. By popular request I wrote this English translation. Regular readers of...

Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior

7 minute read

In this post I describe a behavior that will essentially make anything draggable and ‘flickable’, that is, you can drag a GUI element along with your finger ...

Easy access to WMAppManifest.xml App properties like version and title

3 minute read

Every Windows Phone 7 application must have an Application Manifest file called WMAppManifest.xml. In this you must state title, author, version and some oth...