Dotnet by Example

Motto: "Talk is cheap, show me the code!"

This blog attempts to be a collection of how-to examples in the Microsoft software stack - things that may take forever to find out, especially for the beginner. I see it as my way to return something to the Microsoft community in exchange for what I learned from it.

18 June 2011

Mogade powered Live Tile high score service for Windows Phone 7

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Those who are following my twitter timeline cannot have missed the fact that I recently published a little game called “ Catch’em birds ” fo...
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17 May 2011

Debugging Windows Phone 7 device network access with just a laptop

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It’s a strange world. Today I needed to debug an iPad’s web traffic, and ended up getting instructions from the Dutch Windows Phone 7 DPE M...
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20 April 2011

Safe event detachment ‘pattern’ for behaviors

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For the past few weeks I’ve been hacking away at my Windows Phone 7 game and noticed something odd. The objective is to intercept moving ob...
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13 April 2011

Preventing objects made invisible by data binding to show up initially

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Currently I am in the process of writing a small Windows Phone 7 game . It sports a ‘game over’ panel with a ‘play again’ button and it’s v...
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08 April 2011

Bing Maps control with MVVMLight on Windows Phone 7

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This article appeared originally in the March 2011 issue of .Net Magazine – in Dutch . By popular request I wrote this English translation....
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08 March 2011

Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior

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In this post I describe a behavior that will essentially make anything draggable and ‘flickable’, that is, you can drag a GUI element along...
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05 March 2011

Easy access to WMAppManifest.xml App properties like version and title

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Every Windows Phone 7 application must have an Application Manifest file called WMAppManifest.xml . In this you must state title, author, v...
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Joost van Schaik
Amersfoort, Netherlands
pronounced as: 'Yoast van Schaik'.

Senior Developer / Software Architect, Windows Development MVP.
Mixed Reality, HoloLens, Unity, C#, Xamarin, .NET.
Rogue R&D hacker.
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