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.

19 April 2013

Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1–geocoding, tombstoning–and testing

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After my post about reverse geocoding I set out to make a little app to demonstrate routing in Windows Phone 8. The demo app went quite ou...
10 April 2013

ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone

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Long long time ago I wrote how to drive animations from your ViewModel using DataStateBehavior , and I explicitly stated this was the only w...
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27 March 2013

Enabling basic OpenLayers pinch zooming for Internet Explorer 10 touch events

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A phenomenon described by the term ‘webkit monoculture’ is causing quite some concern in the web development community. A lot of web develo...
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21 March 2013

Unit testing async Windows Phone 8 code on the UI thread with VS 2012.2 CTP4

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This may be the most cryptic acronym-laden title I ever used for a blog post, but it quite exactly describes what I was trying to do yesterd...
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13 March 2013

Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight

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Having worked in Geographical Information Systems over 20 years, I can tell you rightfully the new Windows Phone 8 mapping and location abi...
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08 March 2013

Surface RT versus Surface Pro versus the competition for REAL dummies

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About every pundit who is somewhat interested in Microsoft either by love or abject hate has written about this already – and still I am goi...
02 March 2013

Publishing games in the Brazilian Windows Phone store

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Brazil, a strong developing economy, is the largest country is South America, and has the biggest population of South America as well. From ...
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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.
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