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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

The case for the Bindable Application Bar for Windows Phone 7

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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: ”Thou shalt not make unto thee any Windows Phone 7 application without MVVMLight” Even when using Application Bar. I...

ViewModel driven animations using the Visual State Manager, DataStateBehavior and Expression Blend

9 minute read

Leon Zandman, fellow member of the Dutch Windows Phone 7 developer community, told me that my MapMania app used too much screen real estate for secondary con...

Displaying an image in Windows Phone 7 accent color

1 minute read

One of the customizing features of Windows Phone 7 is the accent color, which is used to display tiles and certain user interface elements. Default is blue, ...

A Standard About Page for Windows Phone 7 applications

6 minute read

<p>Update - if your read this, you might want to read this update too when you are done</p> I admit – I fell for it too. I was a bit too lax read...

Tombstoning MVVMLight ViewModels with SilverlightSerializer on Windows Phone 7

4 minute read

I’ve been down this road before but I thought it wise to revisit this subject, since I see a lot of people in the Windows Phone 7 developer community still s...