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.

22 February 2012

Behavior to show a MessageBox from a ViewModel

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Since I am a very lazy programmer and I not always want to register or define services and whatnot for showing a simple message I created th...
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06 February 2012

JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies

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In part 1 of this series I described the basics of creating classes from a JSON string and then simply deserializing the string into a (lis...
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01 February 2012

Behavior to force TextBox model update to prevent trouble with the ApplicationBar

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A small quicky this time: Problem: TextBox, Text property bound to a string in my ViewModel I type text in the TextBox I click a “Save”...
29 January 2012

Templating a XAML CheckBox to a thumbs-up/down control using Expression Blend

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Preface The checkbox has been been around in the Graphical User Interface for as long as I can remember doing GUI – since the early 90’s I...
22 January 2012

JSON deserialization with JSON.net: basics

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I’ve been contemplating an article about handling JSON for some time now, but it turned out to be a rather long article. So I’d thought to t...
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31 December 2011

A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string

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Note: an update to this article has been written here On New Year’s Eve I can’t help but writing this last bit of 2011: yesterday on a #wp7...
03 December 2011

Re-imagining the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background

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This blog turns out not only to be a collection of how-to samples but also a record of my evolution as a Windows Phone 7 developer. At the ...
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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.
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