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.

07 February 2013

A KnockOut.js binding helper for a JQuery Mobile Slider

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For those who have missed it – besides all the things I do on Windows Phone and Windows 8 I actually have a job, and in that job I am curr...
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...
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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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