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.

20 June 2012

Reflection in WinRT: use Rx Extensions for dynamically adding event handlers

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Suppose you want to add an event handler, but you don’t know up front which event. Admittedly, this is a bit of an edge case, but I have use...
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Reflection in WinRT: DeclaredProperties vs GetRuntimeProperties caveat

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I suppose this is part of some FM I did not R, but I would like to point it out in case some other sod wastes just as much time on it as me...
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14 June 2012

NavigationService for WinRT

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"If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. "   Isaac Newton It was o...
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Behavior to make Bing Maps view area bindable

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The Bing Maps control in Windows Phone 7 is pretty versatile but does not always play along very well with data binding. You can bind ZoomL...
06 June 2012

Detecting your Windows 8 app is running in the background

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In Windows Phone life was so simple: when the user put your app in the background, as of version 7.5 the OS effectively froze all threads, ...
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06 May 2012

JSON deserialization with JSON.net: caching results

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On January 22 I promised this to be a three-part series. I’ve been kinda busy with upgrading apps, Windows 8 experiments and trivial ;-) st...
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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Joost van Schaik
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pronounced as: 'Yoast van Schaik'.

Senior Developer / Software Architect, Windows Development MVP.
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