I’ve spent some time the JumpList API for UWP apps recently and there were a couple of things that caught me by surprise that I wanted to share with you,…
All controls in UWP has the Loading and Loaded event. They are called when the view is about to show on screen. One would believe that Loading always comes before…
I've just had the honor of presenting both the intro and the deep dive session on Universal app (UWP) development for Windows 10 at TechDays Sweden. Lots of good questions…
Had time to digest everything from BUILD yet? It sure is a lot to take in. We've blogged about some of the sessions: day 1, day 2 and day 3.…
Wow. The level of innovation and new products that Microsoft showed yesterday with HoloLens, Surface Hub and Windows 10 is rare to get in one event – we are mightily…
This post will show you how to share XAML and localization in Universal Windows 8.1 apps, with a twist. The extra spice in this example is that we have two…
The API of the new MapControl in Windows Phone 8.1 have many changes compared to the map controls in Phone 8.0. Gone is the old MapLayer and MapOverlay and you…
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…
Man those little problems that should never be problems can be annoying – I just solved another one and would like to share. In short: make sure your resource files…
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…
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…
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…
Did you know you can control how Blend interprets your drag’n dropping of UI elements when modifying your Visual State changes? Until recently I did not, so let me show…
Do you need to control the visual state of your view from its view model? This blog post will present a simple but useful solution.
(more…)
I recently held a introduction lab about using XAML with C++ for my colleagues. In my team we are all XAML developers but we are using C# so we were…