By tag: XAML
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Building reactive XAML apps with ASP.NET SignalR and MVVM
A great portion of mobile applications consumes data from HTTP services. This is usually achieved as a pull scenario in which apps initiate the data flow from the server. In many cases pushing data to the client is a more natural and potentially much better solution. In this blog post I will explore...
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Detecting dependency property changes in WinRT
A simple workaround to the absence of DependencyPropertyDescriptor in WinRT
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Getting a Bitmap from a File Thumbnail
Learn how to get a bitmap image from a file thumbnail in your Windows Store applications.
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Setting a MediaElement Source to a StorageFile
Learn how to set the source of a MediaElement to a file in local storage.
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Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps
Learn how to add background audio to your Windows Store apps.
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Split Views and ViewModels in Caliburn Micro
A quick tutorial on how to split views and view models into separate assemblies in a Caliburn Micro WinRT application
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Passing custom parameters to Caliburn Micro actions
Quick overview on how to use the SpecialValues collections in Caliburn Micro to pass custom parameters to Actions messages
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Prism 4.1 release for .NET 4.5 and Windows 8
A new release of the Prism library is currently being tested and should be released within a couple of weeks.
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Using MarkupExtensions as ValueConverters (Part 1 - The Basics)
Using value converters in XAML is a very powerful, but sometimes cumbersome feature. MarkupExtensions can simplify the usage of converters significantly. There are a lot of posts about this topic allready on the net, but none of them (at least none I know of) provides an approach as complete and fle...
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Getting started with Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store apps
This is an introductory post that is meant to investigate basic functionality provided in Bing Maps components for C#/XAML Windows Store apps.
Topics covered include: using Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store apps in Visual Studio 2012 projects, zooming and centering map on user’s current location usi...
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Downloading files in Windows 8 apps using Background Transfer feature
In this blog post I am going to show how to use Background Transfer feature to download files over HTTP in a Windows Store C#/XAML app. Background Transfer has several advantages over using HttpClient and is much better for long running transfers. I am going to create a simple app, that initiates do...
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About Windows 8 style (Formerly Metro) for WPF Devs
How to achieve windows 8 styles in a WPF world.
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Responsive XAML editing with ReSharper
Small how-to to replace Visual Studio built-in XAML IntelliSense by a faster one to improve editing.
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Writing my first windows 8 Metro App
And analysis of the difference found in xaml between windows 8 and standard wpf and a bit of how it currently feels to develop on the preview version of win 8.
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Auto-Notifying View Models in Silverlight and WPF
Quickly create View Models that automatically notify XAML bindings when property values change, without having to manually raise a PropertyChanged Event
Code view model properties as:
public virtual int MyIntegerProperty { get; set; }