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Writing apps on HoloLens Emulator

Post published:May 28, 2016
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net / Wearables
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The Microsoft HoloLens is a remarkable device. But how do you write apps for it? You have two options: Write a 2D-app with UWP or a 3D-app with Unity. I…

Developing in F# impressions

Post published:October 24, 2014
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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Introduction I am a C# developer and I have nurtured a wish to start developing in F#. I have read some books on F# and written some test, demo and…

Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – Localizing Apps

Post published:April 22, 2014
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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This blog post is part of a series about how Windows Phone 8.1 affects developers. The series is written in collaboration with Microsoft evangelist Peter Bryntesson, check out his blog here. Introduction When…

Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers

Post published:April 3, 2014
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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We will during the next few weeks together with Microsoft evangelist Peter Bryntesson post a series of blog post regarding the new windows phone 8.1 platform. We will publish our…

Resource interface generation with T4 templates (C#/Xaml)

Post published:March 4, 2014
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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When you globalize your Windows Store app, i.e. show the GUI in foreing languages like French or German, there's a few things you have to do. 1. Add translated string…

Verifying your Xaml localization tags

Post published:February 24, 2014
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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In a Xaml-project I am working with, we are localizing the GUI, i.e. displaying the GUI in different languages like English, French, German etc. This is done by adding a…

Lab: Creating packages with NuGet

Post published:January 15, 2014
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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Recently some colleagues needed to know how to create packages with NuGet. To speed up the learning, I wrote a lab on the subject and went through with them. They…

An actor model implementation in C# using TPL DataFlow

Post published:November 15, 2013
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net
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The actor model (Wikipedia) An actor is an entity that you can send messages to. In response to a message an actor can do any of the following: * Send…

Team Foundation Service and Windows 8

Post published:July 2, 2012
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net / Cloud
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Microsoft has launched a Team Foundation Service (http://tfspreview.com/). It is Team Foundation Server in the cloud. There is source control, continuous builds, test running and agile planning functions. All this…

Hosting your own Source & Symbol Server

Post published:June 19, 2011
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:.Net / Tips & Tricks
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If you are using NuGet to add 3rd party components in your project, you should also use SymbolSource.org to get debug info and source code for those components. If you…

Subversion + Mercurial = True

Post published:June 1, 2011
Post Author:Johan Olsson
Post Category:Tips & Tricks / Uncategorized
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In the team I am working in now, we are using Mercurial (ToroiseHg and VisualHg) as version control. This works great and we are quite happy with it. But there's…