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.

01 April 2012

Porting the DragFlickBehavior from Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro Style

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Preface A little over a year ago I made DragFlickBehavior , a behavior for Windows Phone that makes essentially anything draggable and ‘f...
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29 March 2012

Attached behaviors for Windows 8 Metro Style XAML

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This post was updated substantially at March 31, 2012 Regular readers of my blog know that there are some recurring themes: MVVM, maps and ...
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25 March 2012

Instant language update in a Windows Phone 7 application using MVVM

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With more and more Marketplaces being added to the Windows Phone ecosystem, globalization of your app becomes all the more more important....
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04 March 2012

MVP Summit 2012–the day after

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So here I am, back in the Netherlands, after the MVP Summit 2012 , still quite dazed from what hit me. It was my very first summit, and I wa...
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”...
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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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