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.

24 July 2011

MVVMLight based language selection for Windows Phone 7

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Updated 25-09-2011 with a new implementation of LanguageSettingsViewModel to make it compatible with SilverlightSerializer. It appeared that...
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23 July 2011

Speed and distance calculation extension methods for Windows Phone 7

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Upgrading stuff to from Windows Phone 7 to “Mango” is sometimes like cleaning your desk drawer before going on a holiday – you stumble upon...
20 July 2011

Concatenating a long set of objects in a string with a separator

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It still amazes me when I see people concatenating a long set of repetitive strings with a StringBuilder, adding a separator to each string ...
16 July 2011

Using Kinect and MVVMLight 4 for some basic Google Maps manipulation

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Being a new tech junkie, I of course wanted to try the waters when the Kinect beta SDK was released on June 16, 2011. I thought it best to ...
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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Joost van Schaik
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pronounced as: 'Yoast van Schaik'.

Senior Developer / Software Architect, Windows Development MVP.
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