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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

Starting an external program in the same directory

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Especially in development/demo scenario’s you sometimes need to start an external program. In my case, it was a simple batch file that more or less terminate...

Forcing a web service proxy to use a specific http version

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A short one this time, and a rare one too, but taken from real life. Sometimes a web service is implemented in such a way that it only understands http 1.1 o...

Calling a WCF service from Javascript

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Note - I wrote this a long time ago. While the information in this article is still valid, nowadays I would use ASP.NET MVC 4 WebAPI on the server, and jQuer...

Compacting C# code using implicit properties, object initialization and lambda expressions

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Not exactly hot science anymore - most could be distilled from Scott Guthrie’s blog and numerous others, but this shows how you can use new C# 3.0 features t...

String extension methods

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C# 3.0 features the new extension methods. This basically seems to allow you to add your own methods to sealed classes. That seems a bit weird, and Microsoft...