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.

26 September 2013

Utility classes to check if lines and/or rectangles intersect

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I have a for a developer unusual confession to make: I don’t like math. As a tool, great, but as a thing, no. One thing that really infuriat...
24 September 2013

A behavior to implement a scroll-into-view panel (for a Facebook-like GUI) on Windows Phone

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As promised, this post describes a behavior to scroll parts of a Windows Phone GUI into view, after I first described how you can create su...
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18 September 2013

Aligning XAML elements outside the screen using scaling (for a Facebook-like GUI)

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This is a trick I use to make partial screens outside of the actual Windows Phone viewport, for instance like the Facebook app for Windows ...
15 September 2013

Zero lines of code solution for in-app checking for updates on Windows Phone

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“Good artists copy; great artists steal” – Steve Jobs Every Windows Phone developer who has non-tech friends, relatives or a wife with a W...
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12 September 2013

Zero lines of code solution to entice Windows Phone users to rate and review an app

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I don’t think I need to elaborate on how important it is to get ratings for your app in the Store – and preferably good ratings. By no mean...
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21 August 2013

Commercial break - introducing 2 Phone Pong

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With a little pride and much joy I hereby release my newest Windows Phone application 2 Phone Pong into the wild. It is intended to show o...

A behavior to animate mirroring of GUI elements on Windows Phone

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In this third and final installment of my scaling and opacity animation series I am going to show how easy it is to build more behaviors on ...
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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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