Anniversary SDK: Connected Animations
It's always been tedious in XAML apps to make transitional animations between two pages. To animate an image between two pages, the navigation system had to be…
Read articleThe library
All articles
29 articles about .NET, C#, Azure, mobile development and artificial intelligence.
29 results
Clear filtersWelcome to the UWP Community Toolkit
Microsoft just released a new toolkit: the UWP Community Toolkit. This toolkit is open source !!! Link to GitHub It brings together a whole bunch of…
Read articleWhat are the Windows Store fees?
When you create a universal app on the Windows Store, you can make it payable or add in app purchases. For every purchase in the store, Microsoft charges a fee.…
Read articleConvert hexadecimal colors and color names to SolidColorBrush
For my new apps, I was given stringed colors. These were either Hexadecimal or ColorName. So I had to create a little helper to convert the strings to…
Read articleDev Center merger: bugs, bugs and more bugs
Since the beginning of July the developer accounts have been gradually migrated to a single Dev Center. This migration is compulsory, you are not asked for your…
Read articleLocalization in WinRT
How to locate a WinRT application? A .resw file must be added for each language of the application. As follows (one file per language): Complete list of culture…
Read articleMisconceptions about Windows Runtime components
What is a Windows Runtime component? When creating a new assembly in a visual studio we have two choices: Or a classical class library Either a Windows Runtime…
Read articleIncremental loading: implementing ISupportIncrementalLoading
SupportIncrementalLoading The WinRT framework provides an interface to implement incremental loading. This interface is very simple. It only has members. Link to…
Read articleAdd emoji to a RichTextBlock
When I created the MyTwich app I asked myself: How to convert a string into a text and/or image stream while maintaining Binding mechanics? To do that, you need to…
Read articleCreate WinRT app logos in no time
Update: there is no longer any need to use a console utility. I wrote a small Visual Studio extension that you can download here. Generating your logos is now even…
Read article
Tip: force the orientation of a WinRT page
Here's a little tip for multi oriented apps. When developing a WinRT application, when creating it you can choose whether to manage several types of orientations…
Read articleA helper to delay the execution of an action
In order to make our applications fluid and responsive, it is necessary to control the number of accesses to time consuming operations (call to the database, to…
Read article