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.

14 January 2013

An MVVM-friendly ‘tap-to-connect’ NFC socket network helper for Windows Phone 8

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For my Windows Phone 8 game “ Pull the Rope ” I wrote a utility class to make pairing phones and obtaining a  two-way communication channel...
13 January 2013

Playing sounds on Windows Phone using the MVVMLight Messenger

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In my never-ending quest to preach the gospel of MVVM in general and MVVMLight in particular as the way to make a structured Windows Phone ...
26 December 2012

Handling Windows Phone 8 NFC startup events using the MVVMLight Messenger

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As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently playing around with NFC on Windows Phone 8. I peeked a little in the Bluetooth app to...
17 December 2012

On blogging, sharing and commenting

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This is not about code, but about something a fellow developer and blogger told me, which made me quite sad. It’s a kind of personal rant, s...
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16 December 2012

Preventing high speed socket communication on Windows Phone 8 going south when using async/await

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Currently I am working on a Windows Phone 8 action game in which you can fight a kind of duel. This involves pairing the phones via NFC and...
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20 November 2012

Passing event arguments to the WinRT EventToCommandBehavior

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This week my fellow MVP Scott Lovegrove contacted me and asked if and how he could pass the result of an event to my WinRT EventToCommandBe...
17 November 2012

Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone 8 and the 2001 submission error

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You can read the whole story if you like reading, but this whole blog post comes down to one piece of advice: If you value your sanity, do ...
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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.
Gardener, Lover of Nature, Amateur philosopher.
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Most likely place to find me: in front of a keyboard.
Most likely place for me to die: in front of a keyboard.


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