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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 simple Unity helper for making class decoupling easier

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Unity, a part of the Enterprise Library, is a great way of decoupling interfaces and implementation, and for opening a road into unit testing with mock objec...

Using the Microsoft Ajax library to keep the javascript “this” context intact

1 minute read

This is not strictly .NET but more of a Javascript trick, but nevertheless, one that you might need. It is a simple trick, and actually requires much more te...

Yet another way to determine root paths in ASP.NET

less than 1 minute read

How many times I have tried to find the root path of an ASP.NET page or a handler (ASHX) in order to call another URL I can hardly count. When working with W...

Azure Tables and DateTime: some limitations

1 minute read

A nice thing I ran into yesterday: if you have a TableStorageEntity child class containing a DateTime property, you have two thing to remember:<ul><...

Using extension methods to serialize objects to XML and compress the result - and deserialize again

2 minute read

Elaborating upon the string extension methods I created for compressing and decompressing strings to and from a byte array, it turned out fairly easy to crea...