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Joost van Schaik

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, .NET, Azure

Converter for showing/hiding Silverlight/WP7 GUI elements with boolean model values

1 minute read

Typically, when you are writing Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 applications using the MVVM pattern, your viewmodels expose boolean values indicating somethin...

WIX configurable search & replace custom action for text files

5 minute read

Recently I had my first encounter with actually writing setups myself using WIX. This is a powerful albeit a bit complex technology that allows you to build ...

Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 do not like DTDs

less than 1 minute read

My current Windows Phone 7 project requires the possibility of reading configurations from various servers. For the GIS lovers among my audience: I am trying...

Swapping two elements in a bound ObservableCollection IMPROVED VERSION

1 minute read

Today I noticed something odd. I wanted to swap two elements in an ObservableCollection that was bound to a list box – so I could move objects up and down in...

Showing Open Source maps on Windows Phone 7 with the Bing Maps Control

2 minute read

My previous post, which caused a bit of a stirrup and got me over 1000 page hits on that one page alone in less than 46 hours, led to the question if I could...